On-site
SaaS
arbeitnow
🇫🇷 French
About this role
About DustWork is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion.
We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread.
We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast.We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026.Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so.
The Generalist named us among the Future 50.The roleWe’re hiring a Strategic Sales Leader to build Dust’s go-to-market presence with its most important French customers.
This is a pivotal opportunity to shape how we win and grow strategic accounts, from developing senior relationships and navigating complex buying groups to building a repeatable approach for large, high-impact opportunities.You’ll act as the business lead for the strategic segment, with accountability for revenue.
You’ll lead and coach the sales team while staying close to customers, account plans, and active deals. You’ll build a focused pipeline and a sales motion suited to organizations with complex needs, multiple stakeholders, and ambitious transformation goals.You’ll also orchestrate the cross-functional support needed to grow strategic accounts.
Working closely with BDR, Growth, Field Marketing, Partnerships, Revenue Operations, Solutions Engineering, Deployment, and Customer Success, you’ll direct resources toward the accounts and opportunities where they can have the greatest impact.
What you’ll doLead, coach, and grow the Strategic sales
Tools & Tech Stack
Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Enterprise
6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals
Prospecting
Channel / Partner
Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Territory
Named Accounts
Pre-assigned list of target companies
Requirements at a Glance
Typical Day — Sales Manager
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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Template questionDescribe your forecasting methodology.
Template questionHow do you structure onboarding for new hires?
Template questionThis leadership position involves both strategic planning and hands-on coaching of the sales team.
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