Account Executive, Enterprise, Dach

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Munich, Germany · Business

Enterprise Sales Executive role at Mistral AI, focusing on driving adoption of AI solutions with large customers. Responsibilities include lead development, value proposition validation, deal management, executive engagement, and technical aptitude to articulate product value. Requires significant experience in enterprise sales, ideally in deep-tech or AI/data/infrastructure fields.

What you'd actually do

  1. Handle strategic outreach as well as warm introductions to promising enterprise customers
  2. Converting inbound deals where upselling / more bespoke agreements can be achieved
  3. Provide hands-on support and guidance to clients during a potential Proof of Concept (POC) phase, ensuring a smooth and successful evaluation process
  4. Leverage successful POC outcomes to facilitate the conversion of POCs into long-term, revenue-generating contracts
  5. Develop and execute strategic sales plans to convert leads into valued customers — you are the first point of contact for all external stakeholders and are responsible for properly managing deals and aligning all stakeholders (heavy involvement of customer engineering, product, and commercial teams, both on operational and C-level)

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise sales experience
  • Consultative selling
  • Complex technical product sales
  • AI ecosystem experience
  • Data/infrastructure field experience
  • Fast-growing startup experience
  • Deep-tech experience
  • Technical skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Communication skills
  • German language proficiency
  • English language proficiency

Nice to have

  • Business degree
  • Computer Science degree

What the JD emphasized

  • selling a highly complex, technical product
  • Significant work experience within AI ecosystem or related data/infrastructure field
  • Strong technical skills to navigate quickly evolving products and steer technical discussions