Senior Sales / Senior Account Executive - French speaker

United States Digital Space LLC; Paris (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lemlist is seeking a French-native sales professional to focus on the French market. English fluency required as working language.

You will own the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiation, closing, and onboarding, targeting 200–10,000 employee companies, with teams of 5–100. You will leverage inbound and outbound strategies to build a strong pipeline and close high-velocity deals.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of sales experience with closing and top-quartile performance.
• Ability to build and manage a pipeline with inbound and outbound leads.
• Experience negotiating with multiple stakeholders and closing deals with C-level executives.
• Comfort in a fast‑paced, high-growth SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to onboarding.
• Target mid-market companies (200–10,000 employees) across multiple industries.
• Develop and execute inbound and outbound strategies to generate 50% of your pipeline.
• Close deals with 5–100 seat teams and build lasting customer relationships.

Skills

French fluency

English fluency

Sales experience (closing)

Pipeline generation

Deal management

Competitive mindset

Self-starter

Job description

About lemlistlemlist is the AI-powered sales engagement platform helping sales teams build pipeline smarter, not harder.

Bootstrapped from day one, we’ve grown from 0 to $50M+ ARR in 8 years without raising a single dollar. Today, 40,000+ sales teams use the company to book more meetings and close more deals.

We’re building the next generation of outbound: AI-first, multi-channel, highly personalized, and deeply integrated into the way modern sales teams work.

And we’re just getting started.

We are looking for a french native speaker who will be mostly focusing on the French market that said english fluency is mandatory as this is our working language.

Please read carefully and only apply if you speak French fluently

Mission

• Your mission is to acquire high-quality customers for the company - our Sales Engagement Platform - and, more generally, the company's product.
• You will be in charge of the full sales cycle, including prospection, negotiation, the closing phase, and even customer onboarding.
• You will focus on companies with 200 to 10,000 employees in various industries and sales teams between 5 to 100 people in various industries.
• You'll be both leveraging Inbound (Demo Requests and Product-Led Sales teams) and Outbound (using the company to find prospects) - "eat your own dog's food"

Key Results

• After 3 months, you will have
• Show you can follow the process and well manage high quality inbound lead
• Shown you are capable of building an outbound pipeline and closing some higher velocity deals (5-10 seats)
• Closed some Inbound / Product-Led-Sales customers
• Overall, generated some revenue
• After 12 months, you will have
• Achieved quotas for most months
• Became an expert with the product
• Build relationships with multiple customers, using referrals as a lever to acquire more customers

Skills

• Fluency in French & English
• 4+ Years of experience in a Sales role with closing and are a top performer (top 20%)
• Pipeline generation : you know how to find new prospect & create interest in order to generate 50% of your own pipeline (Cold call /Cold email / LinkedIn)
• Deal management : you are used to manage multiple stakeholders in your deal, already have worked on at least 3 months sale-cycle deals and are used to deliver value, and close deals with C-level
• Competition management : you already worked in a high competitive market
• Interest in the Sales stack / Sales automation software is a strong plus
• Competitor: you like to play as a team and hate losing/failing
• You are a self-starter; you don't need someone on your back to work hard
• You are an entrepreneur at heart and will find a way to make things work. You don't need 100 resources, tools, and people to support you in opening a deal with a prospect and closing it

Why Join lempire?

• High-impact role with direct contributions to company growth.
• Work in a fast-growing SaaS company with exciting career progression opportunities.
• Join a dynamic and passionate team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Interview process

• Interview with Victoire (TAM)
• Role play “Discovery call” with Grégoire (Sales Manager France)
• Business Case Debrief & meeting with Yann (VP sales)
• Interview with Charles (CEO)
• Reference check

If you're ready to drive revenue success, we want to hear from you!

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