Commercial Account Executive, Dach

Algolia Algolia · Enterprise · Germany · Remote · Direct Sales

This role is for a Commercial Account Executive at Algolia, a company that provides AI Search solutions. The primary responsibility is to manage and grow a sales pipeline, drive leads through sales cycles, and build relationships with customers and prospects to expand the company's footprint and close new business. The role involves understanding customer needs, adapting sales strategies, and collaborating with various internal teams. While the company is a leader in AI Search, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Managing and growing a sales pipeline
  2. Driving inbound and outbound leads through complex sales cycles to closed won
  3. Working your network and collaborating with external partners to source and facilitate new projects in the Commercial segment
  4. Managing and prospecting with an existing account base to drive usage-based and feature-based upsells
  5. Generating new projects from booking self-driven outbound meetings

Skills

Required

  • 2 - 4 years of experience in a closing role (esp. in B2B, MarTech, SaaS tech sales)
  • Excellent spoken and written German and English skills
  • Strong familiarity with outbound prospecting techniques, tools and processes
  • Multi-tasker who can adapt to changing situations
  • Quick thinker, must be able to handle questions on the fly

Nice to have

  • Experience in working with partners (solution integrators, consultancies, independent software vendors)
  • You love tech sales
  • You have a curious mindset and are capable to understand prospects’ pains and how a deep tech solution like Algolia can solve it
  • You thrive in dynamic environments and are capable to adjust to constant change
  • You are excited by the idea of building things and have a structured and strategic approach to working your territory
  • You believe you are in charge of your own success and you have the grit to continue going when things get challenging
  • Polish or Czech a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • closing role
  • Hunter mindset
  • closing role