High-Velocity Account Executive

What is Leapsome?

Leapsome is the AI-powered people platform revolutionizing HR for modern teams. Leapsome drives HR excellence and empowers high-performing teams by automating, connecting, and simplifying every HR process across the employee lifecycle — from onboarding and performance management to engagement and development. Built with ease of use in mind, our platform ensures high adoption by employees, managers, and People teams alike.

Our purpose is to make work fulfilling for everyone, and our vision is to reshape the future of work by being the leading People platform for HR excellence and high-performing teams. We enable companies to create environments where people can achieve their goals, learn and grow together, and build genuine motivation & engagement.

Trusted by thousands of organizations globally, Leapsome secured $60 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners in March 2022. This funding allowed us to further develop our intelligent platform, create exceptional employee experiences, and expand into the US market.

It’s an incredibly exciting time to join Leapsome and be part of reshaping the future of work!

What is your job?

As a High-Velocity Account Executive, your main responsibility is to own the entire sales process for our High Velocity (10-49 employees) segment. This segment is experiencing high interest, and your goal is to identify, prioritise, and convert the most lucrative opportunities into paying customers within 30 days. You will do this by following a highly structured, semi-automated sales process and working closely with RevOps to improve and level up the high-velocity sales process.

• High-volume opportunity management with short sales cycles (less than 30 days)

• Excellent business acumen in identifying deals that are most likely to close while maintaining a low-touch approach with a semi-automated sales cycle

• Full ownership and autonomy when it comes to the most critical steps of the sales cycle, such as qualifying, conducting platform demos, negotiating, and closing

• Stakeholder Management/Relationship building

• Pipeline Management (incl. CRM data hygiene)

• Accurate forecasting (incl. probabilities, priority, size, timelines, etc.)

• You will iterate on and level up the High-Velocity sales process, in conjunction with RevOPs, to work these deals smarter and increase the overall win rate

• Being a product and industry expert, which includes consultative selling plus managing initial implementation and 

• Extracurricular activities (temporary assignments, e.g. OKR initiatives)

Who are we looking for?

• You hold a university degree and have 2 - 3 years of work experience in Sales  (ideally in B2B SaaS) or a customer-exposed role, e.g., at a consulting firm.

• You have a fluent/native level in English and in German. Additional central European languages are a plus.

• You excel at asking the right questions to understand a customer’s needs and decision process quickly, and you work with the customer to generate value for them.

• You are a very process-driven, diligent, and structured person and are able to prioritize effectively under time constraints.

• You have a good understanding of technology.

• You are passionate about the future of work and continuous learning at work, and you want to join us in building an exceptional team and company to have a real impact in this space.

• Bonus: You have previous experience in SaaS or HR tech, and/ or organizational development, people development, or agility & digitalization.

Benefits at Leapsome

• Become part of a fast-growing scale-up taking over the People Performance & Enablement space by making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025

• Impact: Contribute to making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025

• Teammates: Join a diverse and international team of talented, smart, and kind people

• Feedback and recognition: We value feedback exchange and celebrating successes — big and small

• Hybrid model: Enjoy our hybrid model by working from home or in our offices in the heart of Berlin, Germany

• Flexible work: Experience a work-life balance with flexible hours and the option of working elsewhere for up to 2 months per year

• Learning and Development: Develop your skills with a yearly development budget of €2,000 and access to Good Habitz platform

• Vacation: Take 30 vacation days every year plus public holidays

• Health & Wellness: Stay active and healthy with a free Urban Sports Club membership and Oliva subscription

• Mental health: Access to 1:1 therapy sessions via our mental health partner, plus company workshops and learning pathways on topics like mindfulness and digital wellness

• Work-from-home stipend: Receive a one-time work-from-home stipend of €1,000

• Monthly team activities: Have fun at monthly team activities like kayaking, laser tag, and game nights

• Competitive pay and pre-IPO equity package

Leapsome’s values

We stay true to our values in everything we do at Leapsome. 

• Seek impact — What brought us together is the desire to make work fulfilling for everyone. We’re like-minded in that we seek out and hold ourselves accountable for the impact we want to have in this world.

• Listen & learn — We thoroughly and genuinely seek understanding. It helps us to constantly grow together and learn from each other as well as from our customers and partners.

• Challenge the status quo — We regularly challenge ourselves. We don’t walk the beaten path just because everyone else does. Instead, we reflect and seek out better ways.

• Take ownership & pursue excellence — We’re a group of smart and dedicated people, and we trust each other to truly own our work. We’re not afraid of high expectations as we strive for excellence.

• Be honest & transparent — We’re honest and transparent with each other and ourselves. We want to get to the core of it, always. We trust each other to handle all shared information with care.

• Be kind & humble — We are more than just colleagues — we genuinely care for each other. We give each team member the appreciation they deserve and the support they need. We have no interest in serving our own ego.
  
  

Excited to be part of Leapsome? 😊

Just send us your CV. You won't need to input any information already mentioned on your CV later on - promise! 🤙

A cover letter isn’t necessary, but we’d really appreciate a brief answer to these questions: Why Leapsome? Why you?

We look forward to getting to know you!

You can find more about what our colleagues think about working at Leapsome here 👉 ✨✨✨ Glassdoor ✨✨✨ Kununu✨✨✨

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.


Help us make work fulfilling for everyone!

At Leapsome, we want work to be the best it can be for everyone. We help companies create environments where people can achieve shared goals, build authentic relationships, learn, and grow together.

Put simply; our purpose is to make work fulfilling for everyone. And we know how to get there. But we can only do this by “walking our talk” and building a diverse and inclusive company where people — not just the business — thrive.

Apply now 👇 or keep scrolling to read more about what makes Leapsome a unique workplace!