Founding Account Executive, Stealth Product - EMEA

2 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Junior
Sales and Business Development
Zendesk

Zendesk

Zendesk provides a comprehensive software solution designed to enhance customer service and engagement through an AI-powered platform that facilitates communication across various channels, including text, mobile, phone, email, live chat, and social me...

Professional Services
5K-10K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Own the full sales cycle from first conversation to closed deal and meet or exceed quota and pipeline targets.
  • Help define the EMEA go-to-market motion, including ICP, messaging, objection handling, and pricing posture.
  • Build the first wave of reference customers and case studies for the broader go-to-market team.
  • Develop and execute a regional strategy to identify high-growth opportunities and untapped markets across EMEA.
  • Build relationships with AWS Sales Leaders and Partner Managers to co-sell and expand market share.
  • Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers and Solutions Architects to resolve technical challenges in prospects' environments.
  • Maintain accurate forecasting in Salesforce and ensure proposal quality aligns with delivery standards.
  • Guide customers from initial interest through contract execution and handoff to onboarding.
  • Provide weekly customer feedback to product and marketing to inform the evolving offer.
  • Generate pipeline through prospecting, networking, and creative outreach.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of quota-carrying B2B SaaS sales experience with a consistent record of meeting and exceeding quota.
  • Demonstrated experience running full sales cycles in technology sales, ideally for SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS products.
  • Track record of selling cloud services and understanding consumption-based models.
  • Comfort selling a new product or entering a market without established category awareness.
  • Technical curiosity and the ability to discuss AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure products and architecture.
  • Genuine interest in FinOps and how engineering organizations consume cloud resources.
  • Ability to build influential relationships across matrixed organizations and turn networks into partnerships.
  • A proactive, hands-on attitude across sales and business development activities.
  • Willingness to travel 10% to 15% of the time for customer meetings, hyperscaler engagement, and industry events.
  • Experience in new business roles selling cloud or infrastructure-related solutions (preferred).

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Flexible working options and a fully remote work environment.
  • Health insurance.
  • Parental leave.
  • Employee stock option plan.
  • Home office allowance.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Peer recognition program.

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