Account Executive, Commercial, France

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Sales

This role is for a full-cycle Account Executive in EMEA to drive new customer acquisition and expansion within Notion's Commercial (SMB) segment. The AE will be responsible for the entire sales cycle, from prospecting and discovery to closing complex opportunities. They will need to develop strong product fluency in technical use cases, including AI/agentic workflows, and demonstrate an understanding of modern AI-enabled work patterns. While not directly building AI, the role requires understanding and articulating the value of AI features to technical buyers.

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.
  • Fluency in English and French
  • 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

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

What the JD emphasized

  • full-cycle seller
  • outbound mindset
  • high urgency
  • technical buyer personas
  • full-cycle sales capability