Full-Time

Account Executive

Posted on 12/5/2025

Doctrine

Doctrine

Open-source PHP ORM and DBAL libraries

No salary listed

Berlin, Germany

Hybrid

Two days per week in-office (Tuesdays and Thursdays) in Berlin.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Requirements
  • You are fluent in German
  • You have experience in sales, especially SaaS sales
  • You have a hunter mindset and aim to exceed your sales targets
  • You have excellent written and verbal communication skills: you listen actively and communicate with empathy, clarity, and precision
  • You are extremely rigorous and detail-oriented
  • You have a 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
  • Knowledge of the legal sector is a plus
  • Travels within France may be required
Responsibilities
  • Prospect and leverage inbound leads 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 German market with the internal Germany squad
  • Achieve monthly targets set by the company for your market

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

  • ORM 3.4.0 supports PHP 8.4 lazy objects, boosting enterprise adoption.
  • SkillDisplay partnership enables certification revenue from skill definitions.
  • Cloud sponsors like AWS expand funding for database lock-in reduction.

What critics are saying

  • Laravel Eloquent erodes adoption with zero-config ActiveRecord in 6-12 months.
  • Symfony shifts to lighter DBAL, fragmenting ORM dependency in 12-24 months.
  • Community burnout halts development post-3.4.0 in 12-18 months.

What makes Doctrine unique

  • Doctrine delivers stable ORM and DBAL since 2006 for PHP developers.
  • Integrates seamlessly with Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas frameworks.
  • Offers flexible high-level and low-level database programming tools.

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Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

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Company News

The 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:

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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.

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