Account Executive, Enterprise, UK - London

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · London, United Kingdom · Business

Enterprise Account Executive for Mistral AI, focusing on driving adoption of AI solutions with large customers. Responsibilities include end-to-end deal management, from lead development to closing, customer engagement, and technical aptitude to articulate product value. Requires significant experience in enterprise sales, ideally selling complex technical products, with a background 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

  • Enterprise sales experience
  • Consultative selling
  • Technical product sales
  • Deal management
  • Customer relationship management
  • Negotiation skills
  • Communication skills
  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts
  • Experience in fast-growing startups
  • Business or Computer Science degree

Nice to have

  • French language proficiency
  • German language proficiency
  • Spanish language proficiency

What the JD emphasized

  • 7-10 years experience in Sales (enterprise sales/consultative selling, ideally selling a highly complex, technical product)
  • 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