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Docusign

Runs electronic signing and agreement workflows

Enterprise Account Executive

Account ExecutiveUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of demonstrated experience in a quota-carrying enterprise sales role with direct responsibility for large international enterprise accounts, such as CAC 40 companies or equivalent, and measurable commercial results.
  • Experience with direct SaaS, software, or cloud sales in an Account Executive role or equivalent quota-carrying role.
  • Experience in full-cycle strategic hunting and new-business development, including self-generated pipeline and new-logo acquisition.
  • Experience delivering digital, consultative, and value-based SaaS solutions to large enterprise clients.
  • Experience managing and closing complex sales cycles involving multiple functions, organizational levels, and stakeholders.
  • Experience engaging, influencing, and convincing C-level decision-makers and economic sponsors, with concrete examples of gaining executive access, building alignment, and progressing decisions at the executive level.
  • Experience aligning value-based solutions with a customer's strategic objectives, business outcomes, and return on investment.
  • Experience creating account strategies and managing several strategic opportunities simultaneously.
  • Experience performing enterprise sales roles at multiple companies, demonstrating adaptability across different sales cultures, methodologies, products, and operating environments.
  • Experience with several industry verticals, for example banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, manufacturing, professional services, and high tech.
  • Fluency in French and professional fluency in English, both written and spoken.
  • A Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience using sales-management and forecasting tools, including Salesforce or an equivalent customer relationship management system.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, create, progress, and close enterprise sales opportunities with new and existing accounts, with a clear emphasis on self-generated pipeline and new-logo acquisition.
  • Own the full sales cycle from opportunity creation and qualification through discovery, value proposition, demonstration, business case, negotiation, contracting, and close.
  • Expand and grow existing accounts through upsell and cross-sell while maintaining a strong focus on net-new business development.
  • Build and execute structured, multi-year enterprise plans for each account using a land-and-expand approach.
  • Build, qualify, and manage a healthy pipeline across large enterprise accounts and strategic prospects in France.
  • Develop key relationships with clients at C-suite level and with heads of function, heads of line of business, IT, Legal, Procurement, HR, and Operations.
  • Engage, influence, and persuade executive decision-makers and economic sponsors throughout complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
  • Understand customers' strategic business and technology priorities and align value-based solutions with those objectives, including relevant Docusign solutions such as eSignature and Intelligent Agreement Management.
  • Manage complex, high-value sales projects and program rollouts with customers.
  • Develop and deliver sales presentations, product demonstrations, commercial proposals, and business cases that clearly communicate value, return on investment, and expected outcomes.
  • Use internal resources, including Presales, Telesales, Alliances, Professional Services, Legal, Customer Success, Account Management, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Security, and executive stakeholders, in sales campaigns to ensure sales success.
  • Seek new enterprise business opportunities by presenting, recommending, and upselling new Docusign products, services, and partner solutions.
  • Identify and activate relevant systems integrators, technology partners, and distribution partners to accelerate pipeline and customer outcomes.
  • Forecast sales activity and revenue achievement through proper use of sales tools, including maintaining accurate and up-to-date customer relationship management information and forecast hygiene.
  • Anticipate risks, clarify decisions, and maintain transparent communication with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Contribute to improving collective sales practices by sharing learnings, winning approaches, and market insights.

Desired Qualifications

  • A proven track record of success with large enterprise clients and a consistent history of achieving or exceeding sales targets.
  • Strong negotiation, presentation, and written and oral communication skills.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as necessary, typically about 25%.
  • Experience selling value and return on investment to C-level executives as well as lines of business.
  • Experience selling SaaS platforms, contract-management solutions, eSignature, Intelligent Agreement Management, or digital-transformation solutions.
  • An established and activatable network of C-level decision-makers and key stakeholders within large enterprise accounts in France.
  • Experience in one or more industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, professional services, the public sector, or technology.
  • Experience selling through an ecosystem of systems integrators, technology partners, or distribution partners.
  • Experience with complex, high-value transactions and multi-year contracts.
  • Ability to translate a strategic vision into a concrete, measurable execution plan.

About the Company

Docusign

Runs electronic signing and agreement workflows

Docusign runs electronic signing and agreement management software for businesses, letting people approve contracts online and track the steps around each agreement. Its eSignature product routes documents to signers and records who signed, while contract lifecycle tools organize preparation, negotiation, and approvals. The Intelligent Agreement Management platform stores contracts in a searchable repository and uses AI to extract terms and connect agreement data to business workflows. Customers use its web applications or embed signing through APIs, and pay for subscriptions based on users, features, and document allowances. Docusign was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2003

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