Enterprise Account Executive (French Speaking)

Sanity CMS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health plans

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Sanity.io is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to help build our presence in France while selling to French enterprises. You’ll own the full sales cycle end-to-end, coordinate with SDRs, marketing and product, and craft a local playbook as you go.

Fluent in French and English, you’ll close complex, technical SaaS deals with a technical audience. No CMS experience required; you pick up products fast and explain them clearly in French and English.

Qualifications

• Fluent in French and English.
• Experience selling complex, technical SaaS to enterprises.
• Ability to close high-value deals and navigate procurement.

Responsibilities

• Qualify French opportunities and build a market plan.
• Run discovery in French and build a strong business case.
• Sell to executives and developers in their language.
• Own price negotiation and contract processes.
• Expand existing French accounts and develop the playbook.

Skills

French language

English language

SaaS sales

Enterprise deals

Job description

At Sanity.io , we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

In this Enterprise Account Executive role, you'll be one of the first sales hires building Sanity's presence in France. You won't be pitching a CMS. You'll be selling the infrastructure that engineering teams actually want to build on, to French enterprises who've never heard of us yet, and closing deals big enough to prove the market. You'll own the full cycle end to end, working with SDRs, marketing, and product (most of them not in France) while building the local playbook as you go.

What you would do

Qualify opportunities SDRs and marketing hand you, and decide fast which ones are worth chasing in a market you're still mapping.

Run discovery in French that gets past the checklist and surfaces the real business case for switching.

Pitch a product developers already love to the people who sign the check, in their language.

Price and negotiate enterprise deals, including French contract and procurement norms that don't always match the US or UK playbook.

Grow existing French accounts after the ink dries: spot the next use case and go land it.

Map the account and get everyone from the CMS admin to the CTO talking about Sanity, en français.

Get deals through French procurement and legal without losing momentum.

Bring client and market feedback back to the business, since you're often the first signal on what France actually needs.

Keep Salesforce, decks, and deal docs sharp enough that anyone could pick up your deal cold.

Forecast bookings monthly and quarterly, and stand behind the number, even while you're still building the pipeline that feeds it.

About you

Fluent in French and English. You'll sell in French and work internally in English.

Curious, coachable, and straight with people, including when the deal's on the line.

You've closed complex, technical SaaS deals in our ACV range, selling to a technical audience, ideally in the French market.

You can hold a room with a developer in the morning and an exec in the afternoon, in their language.

No CMS experience required. You just need to pick up new products fast and explain them faster.

Genuinely energized by building something from the ground up, not just running an existing playbook.

What we can offer

A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team

Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth

A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers

Comprehensive health plans and perks

A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs

Competitive location-based salary and stock options program

Who we are

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here!

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.