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Enterprise Account Executive (Swedish Speaking)

Sanity · Remote · UK

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
Not disclosed
Quota attainment
Not disclosed
Posted
3h ago

Why it matters: OTE tells you what you could earn. Attainment tells you how realistic it is.

Ask: “What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?”

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What Sanity sells

One home for content across every channel

A company with a website, an app, and many other channels has to keep the same words and pictures up to date in all of them. Sanity stores that content once, in one place, and adapts it for any channel. Teams can then create and automate content the way their business works.

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The Braun Read

Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Pipeline
A mix of self-sourced pipeline and inbound or SDR help.
Time on market
Brand new.
Company hiring
13 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace.

Based only on what the posting says. Flags are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  2. 2.

    What percentage of reps on the team have been here more than 18 months?

    Tenure shows whether people stay long enough to get paid.

  3. 3.

    Has the comp plan changed in the last 12 to 18 months? What changed?

    A plan that changes every year means the goalposts keep moving.

  4. 4.

    Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?

    Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.

  5. 5.

    What are the base and the OTE for this role?

    No point investing hours before you know the number.

  6. 6.

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

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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The role

Sell Sanity's content operating system to enterprise prospects, mainly French companies, working opportunities that SDRs and marketing hand over. Net-new deals, with some self-prospecting and full-cycle ownership.

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Who you're selling to

Buyer:
Engineering teams, CTOs and CMS adminsIn their words: “Map the account and get everyone from the CMS admin to the CTO talking about Sanity, en français.”
Company size:
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
  • Territory
  • Sales cycle length

The questions above cover the big ones.

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.   We are looking for a Swedish Speaking New business Account Executive. 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 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 Swedish contract and procurement norms that don't always match the US or UK playbook. - Map the account and get everyone from the CMS admin to the CTO talking about Sanity, en français. - Bring client and market feedback back to the business. - 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 Swedish and English. You'll sell in Swedish 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 NORDICS 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 energised 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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