On-site
SaaS
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🇩🇪 German
About this role
The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits.
Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin.
Along the way, we’ve:Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and buildersEarned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projectsBacked by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuationThat’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see
what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey.
Come and build with us.🎯 Your main goal will be to land and expand n8n inside the world’s largest organisations, closing the biggest deals in our portfolio.As a Large Enterprise Account Executive covering DACH (Germany and Austria), you will own a territory of global-scale accounts and lead long, complex deals from first conversation to multi-year commitment:BUILD STRATEGIC ACCOUNT PLANSBuild and execute account strategies for organisations with 5,001 or more employees in Germany and Austria.Open doors with outbound campaigns aimed at CTOs, CIOs and engineering and platform leaders.Turn community adoption inside large companies into sponsored, funded opportunities.LEAD COMPLEX, MULTI-THREADED DEALSRun deep discovery, quantify business impact and build an executive-
Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Enterprise
6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals
Prospecting
Outbound-Heavy
Self-sourced pipeline via cold outreach
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Territory
Named Accounts
Pre-assigned list of target companies
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.
Tags
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 N8N involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.
The German market values structured sales processes and typically offers strong base salaries alongside performance incentives.
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