Founding Account Executive
Core
First commercial hire to build the sales function for an AI platform serving industrial buyers in the DACH region, closing complex B2B deals from discovery to contract.
Role type
Founding Account Executive (Senior IC)
Builds
Production-ready AI agents for industrial sales engineering workflows
Domain
Industrial manufacturing / Agentic AI / SaaS
Deliverable
Production ML models | client delivery
Required skills
Closing complex B2B software deals, navigating industrial buying committees, multi-threading stakeholders, full sales cycle ownership, stakeholder mapping, German and English fluency
Preferred skills
Experience with SAP/Salesforce/Dynamics/Celonis, six-figure ACV track record, sales engineering background in manufacturing, active DACH Mittelstand network
Technologies
SAP, Salesforce, Dynamics, Celonis
Responsibilities
Close new logos in DACH industrials, own the full sales cycle from discovery to contract, partner with Forward Deployed Engineers on demos and pilots, provide feedback on pricing and ICP, build the AE playbook
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC