Account Executive – Netherlands

Puzzel; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Puzzel is seeking a proactive sales professional to own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close in the Netherlands. You’ll run demos, build relationships, and push growth and profitability within your portfolio while working in a remote-first environment with periodic team time on-site.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in SaaS/CX sales, native Dutch and strong English, and proven pipeline generation abilities. Hybrid work is offered to collaborate with the Dutch entity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience managing full sales cycle from prospect to close.
• Experience selling SaaS/CX solutions to enterprise or mid-market.
• Proactive hunter mentality with ability to self-generate pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Build and nurture customer relationships across the full sales cycle.
• Lead demos and presentations to showcase value of the CX platform.
• Manage growth and profitability within the portfolio, meet targets.

Skills

Full sales cycle

Demos & presentations

SaaS sales

Dutch + English

Portfolio management

Tools

CRM (Salesforce/Outreach)

Job description

About Puzzel

We're the AI-native customer experience platform built in Norway, trusted across Europe, and growing fast. For 25 years we've helped contact centres deliver faster, more human service — without the clutter or complexity. Today we're #1 in the Nordics, scaling rapidly in the UK and the Netherlands, with one ambition: become Europe's clear CX market leader.

• Built on Trust — our Nordic foundation. Customers, partners, and each other.
• Stronger Together — one team, one purpose, shared wins.
• Stay Hungry — we raise our game every day.

Amsterdam or surrounding area

Why we're proud

• Frost Radar Innovation & Growth Leader in EMEA Customer Experience Platforms (2025)
• CX Awards 'Best Mid-Market Contact Center Platform' (2024)
• Flexa Top 20 for work-life balance (2025)
• Consistently high Glassdoor rating
• Mercer-benchmarked pay for equity and market fairness
• Puzzel doesn't just build AI for our customers — we’ve embraced it internally, adopting it across the business to work smarter and faster

What we're looking for

You’ll be proactive and solution-oriented, and not afraid to shake things up. Excellent communication skills are a must, as well as the ability to close deals.

You should have good time management skills, be comfortable running your own processes and excel at the following:

• Building and nurturing relationships with customers or creating business opportunities from scratch – it’s important to highlight that you’ll be managing the full sales cycle from initial prospecting to close.
• Initiating and leading activities that contribute to goal achievement for growth and profitability in the portfolio.
• Conducting activities such as demos and presentations.
• Performance and budget responsibility for your own portfolio.
• High self-motivation and being able to implement a structured way of working.
• Thoroughly understand the customer’s needs, business, and processes.
• Working under pressure and to deadlines.
• Interacting with clients and customers both internally and externally.
• Making the most of our systems and automated sequences to minimise manual work and continued best practice for RevOps (Salesforce and Outreach in particular).

The must haves

• Dutch native level speaker + strong English
• Technological understanding and interest in the field of cloud-based services
• At least 3 years’ experience managing full sales cycle, from prospect to close
• SaaS, CX or any other solution-based sales experience
• Experience working with structured sales methodologies (MEDDPICC and/or Challenger preferable) & sales pipelining
• Proactive/ hunter mentality. Recent experience as SDR/BDR and willingness to self-generate pipeline are a must.
• Autonomy and confidence to sell into a new market

The nice to haves

• Exposure to an international environment
• Additional language skills
• CCaaS / competitor industry experience
• MEDDPICC or similarly robust methodology

The location

We are ideally looking for someone to be based around the Amsterdam/ Utrecht/ Hague/ Haarlem area, but it's important to mention we're remote-first. We are very flexible with hybrid working, but we’d like to see you spending time with the team where possible, particularly as the Dutch entity grows. We have passes to Spaces offices which give you access 2 days/week to any of their offices!

Diversity & Inclusion

We want everyone at Puzzel to feel able to be their true, authentic self at work – regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, age or economic background.

We're proud of our diverse, global workforce, but there's more to do. Our current gender split is 25% female to 75% male – in line with the SaaS average, but not where we want to be. Here's how we're improving it:

• Our C-suite has moved from 100% male in 2023 to a 5:3 male-to-female split today.
• Female hires grew from 23.6% in 2021 to 41% in 2024, dipping to 34% in 2025 — a trend we watch closely, but never treating as a tick-box exercise.
• We partner with Flexa, to compound our aspiration to attract a diverse talent pool.

We work with state employment initiatives in Norway and Sweden on internship and apprenticeship routes, to help early-years talent into the workforce.

One Last Thing

We're unable to offer sponsorship for this role, so you'll need existing eligibility to work in the country you're applying to.

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