Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Commercial Account Executive role sits at a familiar inflection point in SaaS go to market: expanding a proven product into a priority region and refining how that market is approached. The remit spans both new business and expansion, which is particularly relevant in SaaS where revenue performance often depends on balancing acquisition with driving deeper usage and feature adoption across an installed base. The DACH focus also signals a market specific motion where language, procurement norms, and buyer expectations materially shape pipeline strategy.
For a SaaS sales career, the role offers sustained exposure to the mechanics that travel well across subscription businesses: managing multi stakeholder cycles, building credible ROI narratives with technical partners, and forecasting in a way that connects activity to revenue outcomes. Close collaboration with solutions engineering, customer success, legal, partners, and marketing mirrors how mature SaaS revenue teams operate, and builds fluency in cross functional execution rather than isolated selling.
This position best suits someone who prefers ownership over a defined territory strategy and is comfortable mixing outbound prospecting with structured deal management. It will appeal to professionals who like technical discovery and can translate product depth into commercial value, especially in German speaking enterprise and commercial contexts.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Algolia, we are passionate about helping businesses connect their end-users with what matters most in milliseconds!
As an Algolia Account Executive, you will be responsible for creating strong relationships with our customers/prospects and building on these relationships to expand our footprint or close new businesses. You should be comfortable researching prospective customers and adapting sales strategies to meet their needs. You will also play an integral role in defining our sales model. You know the ins and outs of Algolia, understand how we can benefit each prospect and will ultimately be the front line of our revenue growth in the German-speaking and CEMEA markets.
Algolia has been growing exponentially over the past few years with Germany representing one of our core markets. We are now expanding our existing German-speaking team to further accelerate in this region, providing you with the opportunity to become one of the core players in our success story. You will be an important voice in how we address this market and able to gain a lot of visibility both within our fast-growing tech company as well as within the German eCommerce/ retail segment.
Are you a resilient problem-solver who isn't afraid to think outside the box and get their hands dirty? We expect you to take ownership and be able to execute, defining your own territory strategy. We're looking for candidates who raise the level and bring sales excellence to the revenue organisation. You should value and practice transparency, have the humility to accept your weaknesses and continuously strive to improve both personally and professionally.
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Managing and growing a sales pipeline
- Driving inbound and outbound leads through complex sales cycles to closed won
- Working your network and collaborating with external partners to source and facilitate new projects in the Commercial segment
- Managing and prospecting with an existing account base to drive usage-based and feature-based upsells
- Generating new projects from booking self-driven outbound meetings
- Building compelling demonstrations with the pre-sales team, sales material and ROI studies bringing value to our customers
- Forecasting accurately to help the team hit their numbers
- Collaborating with sales developers, solutions engineers, customer success managers, legal, partner managers and marketing.
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- 2 - 4 years of experience in a closing role (esp. in B2B, MarTech, SaaS tech sales)
- Excellent spoken and written German and English skills, Polish or Czech a plus
- Hunter mindset: Strong familiarity with outbound prospecting techniques, tools and processes
- Strong Plus: Experience in working with partners (solution integrators, consultancies, independent software vendors)
- Multi-tasker who can adapt to changing situations
- Quick thinker, must be able to handle questions on the fly
NICE TO HAVE:
- You love tech sales;
- You have a curious mindset and are capable to understand prospects’ pains and how a deep tech solution like Algolia can solve it;
- You thrive in dynamic environments and are capable to adjust to constant change;
- You are excited by the idea of building things and have a structured and strategic approach to working your territory;
- You believe you are in charge of your own success and you have the grit to continue going when things get challenging.
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