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Enterprise Account Executive (French Speaking)

Sanity · Hybrid · London, UK

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
Not disclosed
Posted
1mo ago

Still open · checked 3h agoon Sanity's careers page

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Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Shares 1 of 5: quota, attainment, deal size, territory, sales cycle.
Pipeline
A mix of self-sourced pipeline and inbound or SDR help.
Time on market
Open 36 days. Normal, but not fresh.
Company hiring
13 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace.

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    What percent of reps hit quota last year?

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    What are the base and the OTE for this role?

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    What's the annual quota, and how was it set?

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    How long is ramp, and what's the quota during it?

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    What's a typical deal size and sales cycle?

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    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

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The role

Sell Sanity's content operating system to French enterprises, in French, from discovery through procurement and expansion. Build the France market from scratch, working with SDR and marketing hand-offs.

French speaking · Enterprise · Mixed

Selling motion

Mixed

Who you are selling to

Enterprise

Pipeline expectations

A mix of self-sourced pipeline and inbound / SDR support.

Compensation

The posting doesn't list pay.

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

  • Base salary
  • OTE
  • Quota size
  • Quota attainment
  • Average deal size
  • Sales cycle length

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Full posting
At Sanity.io http://Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.   In this Enterprise Account Executive role, you'll be one of the first sales hires building Sanity's presence in France. You won't be pitching a CMS. You'll be selling the infrastructure that engineering teams actually want to build on, to French enterprises who've never heard of us yet, and closing deals big enough to prove the market. You'll own the full cycle end to end, working with SDRs, marketing, and product (most of them not in France) while building the local playbook as you go.   What you would do - Qualify opportunities SDRs and marketing hand you, and decide fast which ones are worth chasing in a market you're still mapping. - Run discovery in French that gets past the checklist and surfaces the real business case for switching. - Pitch a product developers already love to the people who sign the check, in their language. - Price and negotiate enterprise deals, including French contract and procurement norms that don't always match the US or UK playbook. - Grow existing French accounts after the ink dries: spot the next use case and go land it. - Map the account and get everyone from the CMS admin to the CTO talking about Sanity, en français. - Get deals through French procurement and legal without losing momentum. - Bring client and market feedback back to the business, since you're often the first signal on what France actually needs. - Keep Salesforce, decks, and deal docs sharp enough that anyone could pick up your deal cold. - Forecast bookings monthly and quarterly, and stand behind the number, even while you're still building the pipeline that feeds it. About you - Fluent in French and English. You'll sell in French and work internally in English. - Curious, coachable, and straight with people, including when the deal's on the line. - You've closed complex, technical SaaS deals in our ACV range, selling to a technical audience, ideally in the French market. - You can hold a room with a developer in the morning and an exec in the afternoon, in their language. - No CMS experience required. You just need to pick up new products fast and explain them faster. - Genuinely energized by building something from the ground up, not just running an existing playbook.   WHAT WE CAN OFFER - A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team - Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth - A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers - Comprehensive health plans and perks - A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs - Competitive location-based salary and stock options program   WHO WE ARE Sanity.io http://Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business. Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years. You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here! https://www.sanity.io/blog/our-sanity-values   Sanity.io http://Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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