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SaaS
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About this role
At 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 doQualify 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.A
Tools & Tech Stack
Commission Structure
Base Salary
Not disclosed — ask in interview
Commission
Structure not specified
Ramp Period
Not mentioned — clarify timeline
Accelerators
Yes
Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Enterprise
6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Requirements at a Glance
Typical Day — Account Executive
Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.
SaaS — Interview Intel
Typical Sales Cycle
30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)
Common Buyer Objections
- "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
- "We built something in-house already"
- "We don't have budget until next quarter"
- "Our team won't adopt another tool"
Key Industry Metrics
Hot Topics to Reference
- • AI-native product disruption
- • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
- • Vertical SaaS consolidation
- • Usage-based pricing models
Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.
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Walk me through your discovery process.
Template questionHow do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?
Template questionTell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.
Template questionHow do you build business cases for stakeholders?
Template questionDescribe a deal you lost and what you learned.
Template questionThis Account Executive position at Sanity involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.
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