Commercial Account Executive, DACH

Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.

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, s