French Speaking Senior Account Executive
Leads complex, consultative SaaS or platform sales cycles and expands strategic relationships with large financial institutions. The role requires fluent French, significant enterprise selling experience, executive communication, and strong cross-functional collaboration.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build, expand, and deepen relationships with key enterprise clients.
- Drive new business, renewals, and multi-year expansion opportunities across a portfolio.
- Lead complex, multi-stakeholder SaaS or platform sales cycles across large financial institutions.
- Develop and execute multi-year account plans aligned with client priorities and go-to-market strategy.
- Collaborate with Sales Engineering, Client Success, Services, Partnerships, Marketing, and R&D to deliver coordinated client experiences.
- Build trusted relationships with C-level stakeholders and engage company leadership on strategic opportunities.
- Share field best practices, shape engagement models, and help evolve enterprise go-to-market practices.
- Maintain accurate pipeline management and forecasting.
Requirements
- Fluency in French; experience selling into the French-speaking market is preferred.
- Significant experience leading complex enterprise SaaS or platform sales cycles, ideally in wealth management or financial services.
- Track record of building long-term client relationships and delivering meaningful outcomes.
- Strategic, consultative approach to navigating large organizations and aligning solutions with business objectives.
- Strong executive communication skills and ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to bring stakeholders together and build consensus.
- Self-directed, accountable, and comfortable operating autonomously.
- Strong technical proficiency.
Nice to Have
- Experience selling to wealth management firms or other large financial institutions.
- Experience managing strategic accounts spanning regions and business lines.
Skills
SaaS, Enterprise Sales, Platform Sales, Consultative Selling, Account Planning, Pipeline Management, Sales Forecasting, Financial Services, Wealth Management, Sales Engineering
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