Our fast-moving and highly successful Strategic Sales team is growing, and we are seeking the next Account Executive in Paris, France to join our team! Temporal is a remote-first company; however, this role is focused on EMEA to better support our customers and collaborate more effectively with regional teammates.
We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you want to be part of an amazing team, have a passion for open-source software, and a desire to build successful customer relationships, then come join us!
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Scale Account Executive to join the growing Temporal team. This role will become a main point of contact for Temporal customers by leveraging your technical, sales, and account management skills to help grow usage and discover new use cases across your book of business.
What You'll DoActivate and implement new logo accounts and get them up and running on the platform
Identify activation and expansion opportunities within your customer base
Be responsible for the success of a broad book of business
Create and grow relationships with our champions
Drive consistent activity, pipeline development and quota attainment
Partner with product marketing to deliver proper messaging and content to Temporal Cloud customers
Design and execute programs to support the identification, design and productionisation of new case cases with your customers
Identify ICP accounts and pursue the right opportunities in the right accounts to drive ARR growth
Work closely with our Start Up Program team and Self Sign Up team to ensure success for the right new logo prospects
Individuals in this role have a passion for technology and the ambition to dive head-first into new challenges
3+ years experience working in a Sales, Customer Success, Account Management, Sales/Business Development
A background and passion for advocating on behalf of your customers
A mind for technology - we’ll teach you about Temporal and databases, but our customers and product are inherently technical and you should have an aptitude and curiosity to learn about those concepts
The ability to act with a high level of autonomy, you will be expected to take full ownership of your customer portfolio and make key decisions to drive effective customer outcomes
An entrepreneurial mindset - this is a new role at Temporal where you will be required to both deviate from established procedure and often build entirely new process or practices to ensure we best serve this customer segment
Team player and passion for collaboration
Prior experience to tooling like Salesforce, Slack, Outreach, Gong, CommonRoom
Prior exposure to database, cloud, and infrastructure technology is a plus
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in sales, customer success, account management, or sales/business development
- Passion for technology and ability to learn technical concepts involving databases, cloud, and infrastructure
- Ability to advocate for customers and build successful customer relationships
- Ability to work autonomously and own a customer portfolio
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to develop new processes
- Team-oriented and collaborative approach
- Experience with Salesforce, Slack, Outreach, Gong, or CommonRoom
- Prior exposure to database, cloud, and infrastructure technology
Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Temporal Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Temporal Technologies.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
