Account Executive, Mid-market (paris, France)

Figma Figma · Enterprise · Paris, France · Sales

Account Executive, Mid-Market for Figma, focusing on driving sales and revenue with customers. Responsibilities include pipeline management, value-selling, building executive relationships, and creating account plans. Requires experience in closing software/SaaS sales and managing complex sales cycles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create and manage a pipeline of Mid-Market accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently meet or surpass sales targets
  2. Apply effective discovery and value-selling techniques to build and strengthen relationships with key decision-makers in both new and existing customers (500-5000 FTEs)
  3. Align with executives on business challenges and gain sponsorship for enterprise wide deployments for a suite of products, identifying where Figma’s roadmap and innovations fit in the long term
  4. Conduct thorough analysis to create account plans that outline company priorities and initiatives, multi-threading at senior level to build on expansion opportunities
  5. Manage a book of business by tiering accounts and initiating techniques to save contractions

Skills

Required

  • Experience closing sales, over multiple years, for a software or SaaS business with a book of customers (<5000 FTEs), selling to executives
  • Consistent performance meeting pipeline generation targets for net new business
  • Demonstrated experience successfully managing complex sales cycles (3-9 months)
  • A sales methodology and process that creates value for customers

Nice to have

  • Experience selling solutions to technical audiences at executive level (i.e. Engineering, Product, Design teams)
  • Demonstrated ability to succeed in a changing environment
  • Certified in deal qualification and prospect discovery