Account Executive, Commercial, Uki

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Sales

Account Executive for Notion's Commercial segment in UKI, driving new customer acquisition and expansion. This full-cycle sales role involves prospecting, discovery, demos, stakeholder management, and closing complex opportunities, with a strong outbound focus. The role requires developing product fluency in technical use cases including AI/agentic workflows and working with technical buyer personas.

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
  • Experience selling into or working closely with technical buyer personas
  • Outbound discipline, pipeline creativity and full-cycle sales capability
  • Demonstrated ability to run multi-threaded deals and influence across complex customer org structures
  • Curiosity and learning velocity
  • Hands-on orientation with AI
  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • experience selling in the UKI market

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
  • strong outbound mindset
  • high urgency
  • technical use cases
  • APIs, data, developer tooling, infrastructure, and AI/agentic workflows
  • 1–3 years of closing experience
  • full-cycle quota-carrying role
  • technical buyer personas
  • Outbound discipline
  • pipeline creativity
  • full-cycle sales capability
  • discovery, demo and closing motions
  • multi-threaded deals
  • complex customer org structures
  • Curiosity and learning velocity
  • Hands-on orientation with AI
  • uses AI to improve personal workflow
  • speak to modern AI-enabled work patterns
  • selling in the UKI market
  • build repeatable processes
  • sharp customer feedback
  • early sales hire at a fast growing start up