Founding Account Executive - Comet

    Voodoo

    🇫🇷 Paris
    SaaS
    Hybrid
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    Posted 3 weeks ago
    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

    arbeitnow

    Language

    🇫🇷 French

    About this role

    About VoodooFounded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.

    Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.TeamWe are building Comet, a private, end-to-end encrypted messenger made and hosted in France.

    Our ambition is to make Comet the European reference for private messaging: a product people love using, companies trust for their most important conversations and Europe can rely on as its own communication infrastructure.RoleThe consumer product is live. We are now looking for our first Account Executive to turn Comet into a product companies buy and deploy.

    You will own the entire sales cycle, from cold outreach to signed pilot, expansion and renewal. This is a founding role: you will execute from day one and help prove the sales playbook in the field.Create the pipeline: Build account lists within our ICP and reach prospects through cold calls, emails, LinkedIn and referrals.

    You will not wait for inbound demand.Run the sales cycle end to end: Secure first meetings, qualify opportunities, lead discovery and demos, build internal champions, manage follow-ups and drive every next step through signature.Navigate complex buying groups: Work with business sponsors, end users, IT, security, legal and procurement; align them around the use case, pilot scope, success measures and our commercial offer.Turn pilots into references, renewals and expansion: Stay close through onboarding and usage, identify blockers early and build the business case for a broader rollout.Bring discipline to execution: Keep the CRM accurate, maintain a rigorous pipeline and forecast, and make sure no opportunity stalls because of weak follow-through.Improve the playbook through evidence:

    Tools & Tech Stack

    Outreach

    Selling Motion

    Prospecting

    Hybrid

    Mix of inbound leads and outbound prospecting

    Buyer Persona

    Individual / End-User

    Bottom-up adoption, user-level selling

    Typical Day — Account Executive

    Stakeholder meetings3–5/week
    Executive presentations2–3/week
    Business cases & RFPs1–2/week
    Forecast & pipeline2×/week
    Champion coachingDaily

    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

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    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.

    Tags

    Apps
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    Walk me through your discovery process.

    Template question
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    How do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?

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    Tell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.

    Template question
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    How do you build business cases for stakeholders?

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    Describe a deal you lost and what you learned.

    Template question
    Research Voodoo's product, recent news, and key competitors
    Prepare metrics: quota attainment %, average deal size, win rate
    Practice a 2-minute product demo pitch for a mock discovery call
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

    This Account Executive position at Voodoo 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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