Account Executive France

**About the opportunity**: As our Account Executive France (f/m/d), you'll drive Contentful's growth by leading the end-to-end sales process with our top tier clients. You'll be instrumental in driving adoption and engagement, finding new revenue opportunities and creating customer enablement initiatives within a few named accounts. You'll work closely with our partnership and customer success team in leading a consultative sales process by speaking the language of both professional developers and business leaders in the Benelux territory. **What to expect?**: - Position, negotiate, and spearhead expansion opportunities with existing clients ($50k-$500K ACV) in the French territory - Grow existing accounts by leveraging relationships and following our comprehensive "land and expand" sales model - Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals - Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams - Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams - Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and clients while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value based selling approach - Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities - Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently - Work closely with customer success & marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented at the respective customers **What you need to be successful**: - 4+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience - a minimum of 3 years in a closing role - 3+ years of experience successfully selling complex technical software - History running complex, multi-departmental sales initiatives within large organizations - Experience with a "land-and-expand" sales model with a net new account focus - Ability to understand the Contentful API and build great relationships with highly technical customers - Must have experience working with a named account territory within a specific region or industry - Professional fluency in English and French - Willingness to travel (up to 25%) - College degree (BA/BS) - Experience with Fortune 500 companies across several industries - Majority of experience in a "prime" role (not an overlay organization) **What's in it for you?**: - Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences - Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share ownership and the success of our company - We value** **Work-Life balance** **and** **You Time**** **A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days - Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life's challenges - Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career. Join a free German class or one of our many internal learning initiatives - Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness - Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties - A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years - Plus, Contentful socks And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah LI-Remote LI-AT1 **Who are we?**: Contentful is the **leading** content platform that powers digital experiences for over 30% of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of global brands. Our platform unifies content in a **single hub**, structures it for use in any digital channel and integrates seamlessly with hundreds of tools through open APIs. It lets developers and content creators work in parallel, increasing team efficiency and happiness. Companies such as Shopify, Staples, Atlassian, Electronic Arts, Chanel, Roche, Vodafone use Contentful to build their mobile and web products, voice-controlled apps and more. We're **growing rapidly** and we have secured over $330 million in funding from top-tier partners such as Tiger Global, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst and Benchmark. More than **750 people** from **70 nations** contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, San Francisco, Denver and distributed around the world. **Everyone is welcome here**: