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Doctrine

Open-source PHP ORM and DBAL libraries

Account Executive

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Hybrid

Hybrid role: up to three days remote per week; office presence in Milan as required.

About the job

Requirements
  • Fluent in Italian
  • Experience in sales, especially SaaS sales
  • Hunter mindset and aim to exceed your sales targets
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills: you listen actively and communicate with empathy, clarity, and precision
  • Extremely rigorous and detail-oriented
  • Strong sense of ownership and a taste for challenges: you thrive in demanding environments, are motivated by performance-based incentives, and appreciate an uncapped variable compensation
  • Travel within Italy may be required
Responsibilities
  • Outbound prospection to build a strong pipeline of opportunities
  • Understand the challenges of your prospects, and build relevant go-to-market strategies
  • Run the full sales cycle, from outreach to demos, negotiations, and closing
  • Share insights and learnings from the Italian market with the internal Italian squad
  • Achieve monthly targets set by the company for your market
Desired Qualifications
  • Knowledge of the legal sector is a plus

About the company

Doctrine provides PHP libraries for database storage and object mapping, most notably the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and the Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL). These open-source tools help PHP developers interact with databases by mapping PHP objects to database tables and by offering a unified API for database operations. The project is widely used across PHP frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas, and is maintained by a volunteer community under the MIT license. Unlike proprietary DB tools, Doctrine is funded through donations and sponsorships, and it also engages the developer community through blogs, events, and consulting. The goal is to give PHP developers stable, flexible database management capabilities and a reliable open-source ecosystem.

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Founded

2006

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What believers are saying

  • Doctrine 3.4.0 shipped last week, signaling active feature delivery for modern PHP.
  • Doctrine pushed ORM 2 EOL from February 2026 to at least February 2027.
  • Packagist shows DBAL major 3 adoption around 60 percent, strengthening upgrade momentum.

What critics are saying

  • ORM 2 support ends after February 2027, forcing upgrades across downstream applications.
  • ORM 3 adoption sits at 25-30 percent, delaying ecosystem convergence and support simplification.
  • DBAL 4 and ORM 3 deprecations break legacy code, creating migration toil for maintainers.

What makes Doctrine unique

  • Doctrine ORM and DBAL anchor PHP persistence across Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas.
  • Doctrine 3.4.0 added PHP 8.4 native lazy objects and property hooks support.
  • Doctrine’s 2026 sponsorship program funds maintainers, infrastructure, swag, and conference travel.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Professional Development Budget

Health Insurance

Gym Membership

Commuter Benefits

Meal Benefits

Company News

Doctrine Project
Jun 28th, 2025
ORM 3.4.0 released with Native Lazy Objects and Property hooks support

Last week Doctrine Project has released Doctrine 3.4.0 which primarily adds support for PHP 8.4 functionality:

TYPO3 Association
Sep 21st, 2023
SkillDisplay Partners With the Doctrine Project

Now, SkillDisplay is partnering with Doctrine to offer open data skill definitions for these libraries, creating a shared foundation of competencies that will benefit developers across the community.