Account Executive, Commercial, Cee

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Sales

Account Executive for Notion's Commercial (SMB) segment in CEE, driving new customer acquisition and expansion. This full-cycle sales role requires proactive pipeline building, structured discovery, compelling demos, and navigating technical/business stakeholders, with a focus on AI/agentic workflows and modern AI-enabled work patterns. The role involves selling to technical buyers like CIOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering, and requires fluency in English and Polish.

What you'd actually do

  1. An outbound-first mentality: proactively build net new pipeline and move quickly to create momentum within accounts.
  2. Own the full sales cycle, including prospecting, discovery, solution alignment, demoing, stakeholder management, negotiation, and close.
  3. Run high-quality discovery calls to uncover business outcomes and technical requirements, translating them into a clear value narrative.
  4. Deliver live demos and tailored storytelling to guide customers through evaluation, including light solution design as needed (workspace architecture, permissions, rollout approach, integrations) to unblock adoption.
  5. Navigate complex commercial-stage requirements (security, legal, procurement) with support from cross-functional partners.

Skills

Required

  • 1–3 years of closing experience in a full-cycle quota-carrying role (or adjacent role with clear closing exposure), with consistent attainment.
  • Experience selling into or working closely with technical buyer personas (e.g., CIO/CTO/VP Eng/VP Product), translating product capabilities into workflow and ROI narratives.
  • Outbound discipline, pipeline creativity and full-cycle sales capability, including discovery, demo and closing motions.
  • Demonstrated ability to run multi-threaded deals and influence across complex customer org structures
  • Curiosity and learning velocity—can pick up technical concepts quickly and explain them clearly.
  • Hands-on orientation with AI: uses AI to improve personal workflow and can speak to modern AI-enabled work patterns.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and experience selling in the CEE market: you’ll help refine our commercial motion, build repeatable processes, and bring sharp customer feedback into how we scale.
  • Fluency in English and Polish.

Nice to have

  • Experience with usage-based / consumption pricing models.
  • Prior exposure to developer tooling, APIs, data, infrastructure, or AI products.
  • You've been an early sales hire at a fast growing start up before
  • Fluency in Czech

What the JD emphasized

  • full-cycle seller
  • outbound mindset
  • high urgency
  • technical use cases (APIs, data, developer tooling, infrastructure, and AI/agentic workflows)
  • 1–3 years of closing experience
  • technical buyer personas
  • Outbound discipline
  • pipeline creativity
  • full-cycle sales capability
  • multi-threaded deals
  • selling in the CEE market
  • Fluency in English and Polish