As an Enterprise Account Executive - French-speaking (f/m/d), you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by leading the end-to-end sales process with our top-tier clients. You’ll be instrumental in driving adoption and engagement, finding new revenue opportunities, and creating customer enablement initiatives within a few named accounts. You’ll work closely with our partnership and customer success team to lead a consultative sales process by speaking to professional developers and business leaders in the French markets.
This role will require you to be in our Central London office 2 or 3 times a week.
- Self-generation of the pipeline through outbound motions in conjunction with marketing and BDR teams to help create new opportunities in regional accounts
- Drive expansion opportunities with existing clients in the French territory.
- Grow existing accounts by leveraging relationships and following our comprehensive “land and expand” sales model
- Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals
- Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams
- Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams
- Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and clients while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value-based selling approach
- Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities
- Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures, and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently
- Work closely with customer success & marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented at the respective customer
- 6+ years of experience selling a technical platform working as a (Senior) Account Executive
- 3+ years of individual quota-carrying experience
- 2+ years of growing and expanding existing customer accounts
- Demonstrated expertise in closing $100k+ opportunities
- Ability to drive your own pipeline generation with outbound capabilities
- Experience working with Partner ecosystems to work with customers.
- Understanding and experience working in product-led growth sales motions
- Fluent French language skills
More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
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Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience selling a technical platform as an Account Executive
- 3+ years of individual quota-carrying sales experience
- 2+ years of experience growing and expanding existing customer accounts
- Demonstrated experience closing opportunities valued at $100,000 or more
- Ability to independently generate pipeline through outbound sales activities
- Experience working with partner ecosystems and customers
- Understanding and experience with product-led growth sales motions
- Fluent French language skills
Contentful Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Contentful and has not been reviewed or approved by Contentful.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for many roles, particularly in sales and technical tracks, with structured packages that include base and variable components. Feedback suggests compensation ranges are outlined by role, location, and experience, helping set expectations.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive with strong employer cost coverage and broad medical, dental, vision, life, and mental health support. Wellness programs and a wellbeing stipend further reinforce the health offering.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support is emphasized through generous paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility benefits. These programs position the company as supportive of different family needs.
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What We Do
Contentful is a leading composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, Ninetailed by Contentful and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations of all sizes around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500.
Why Work With Us
Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.
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