Account Executive, Digital Native US

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Palo Alto, CA · Business

Mistral AI is seeking a Digital Native Account Executive to drive revenue growth with startups, scale-ups, and Mid Market accounts in North America. The role involves managing the full sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closing deals and expanding customer accounts. The Account Executive will collaborate with Solutions, Product, Finance, Legal, and Marketing teams, acting as a key contributor to Mistral's North American expansion.

What you'd actually do

  1. Effectively and consistently build pipeline to achieve goals using multi-channel and tactics based on account plans
  2. Work closely with the Solutions and Applied AI Engineering teams to ensure customer success criteria are met, and to identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities
  3. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the technical intricacies of Mistral’s solutions and effectively articulate its value proposition to prospects and customers
  4. Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with C-level executives, and other key decision makers within prospect and customer accounts
  5. Helps align all stakeholder interests in a deal to create a win/win balance that demonstrates mutual benefit, increases the probability of commitment and drives deals to close

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in B2B sales
  • Significant work experience within the B2B tech ecosystem
  • Successful track record working in an early stage (Series A-C) startup or scale up organization
  • Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Information Technology, or a related field
  • Strong understanding of the technology or software industry with a focus on data and AI
  • Ability to travel as needed
  • Strong analytical skills

Nice to have

  • AI or related data/infrastructure fields (e.g. deep-tech, AI application layer, cloud provider)

What the JD emphasized

  • highly complex, technical solution
  • focus on AI or related data/infrastructure fields
  • early stage (Series A-C) startup or scale up organization
  • Strong understanding of the technology or software industry with a focus on data and AI