Account Executive, Enterprise, France - Paris

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Business

Enterprise Sales Executive responsible for driving adoption of Mistral AI's models and platform with large customers, managing deals end-to-end from prospect to closing, and engaging with C-level executives. Requires a strong understanding of technical intricacies and experience in the AI ecosystem.

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

  • 7-10 years experience in Sales (enterprise sales/consultative selling, ideally selling a highly complex, technical product)
  • Bachelor and/or Master Degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field
  • Significant work experience within AI ecosystem or related data/infrastructure field
  • Experience at successful fast growing startup, ideally in deep-tech
  • Strong technical skills to navigate quickly evolving products and steer technical discussions
  • Excellent English & French

Nice to have

  • additional language welcome (e.g. German, Spanish, etc.)

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