On-site
SaaS
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🇫🇷 French
About this role
Reporting to the Regional Sales Manager for South Europe, as a Startup Hunter Account Executive at Databricks, you will focus on acquiring new accounts across France. As a successful candidate, you are a self-starter who understands how to generate pipeline and manage full sales cycles. You have experience with the consumption business, you know how to sell innovation and value to new prospective customers, identify first or new use cases, and can guide them forward to compress decision cycles. You love understanding a product in depth and are passionate about communicating its value to customers and partners. Always prospecting for new use case opportunities within new accounts, we also offer accelerators above 100% quota accomplishment. You will be offered huge potential for career progression with the pace of the team's growth.
The impact you will have:
- 1-2 years of experience in a direct account executive/closing role
- Assess your territory and develop a successful account execution strategy
- Identify and activate new accounts to execute account activation target activate new accounts
- Exceed activity and revenue targets
- Track all customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
- Identify new use case opportunities and showcase value to prospects
- Promote the value of the Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform
- Ensure 100% satisfaction among all customers
What we look for:
- Experience penetrating new accounts, executing on first use cases, growing initial consumption and closing deals in a direct sales role
- Ex
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
Prospecting
Channel / Partner
Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Territory
Geographic
Region-based territory assignment
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 questionAccount Executives are the revenue engine of any sales organization — this role will require strong pipeline management and closing skills.
Top SaaS reps often earn significant upside through accelerators once quota is exceeded.
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