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Autodesk

Builds design, engineering, and animation software

Principal Enterprise Account Executive Mobility

Full-TimeUpdated
€142.5k - €209k+ Commission + Annual cash bonuses + Stock grants
Expert
Bachelor's
Remote in Germany
RemoteRemote role for Germany-based sales; in-person onboarding or identity verification may be required.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 or more years of enterprise sales, strategic account management, or consultative business development experience.
  • Proven success managing complex enterprise accounts and driving significant revenue growth.
  • Experience engaging C-level executives and senior stakeholders across large, matrixed customer organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex commercial negotiations, renewals, expansions, and multi-year enterprise agreements.
  • Strong track record of pipeline generation, forecast accuracy, and revenue attainment.
  • Experience leading cross-functional account teams, including Technical Sales, Customer Success, Consulting, Marketing, Partner, Legal, Finance, and Deal Desk stakeholders.
  • Strong business acumen, analytical thinking, executive communication, and consultative selling skills.
  • Native or bilingual proficiency in both German and English.
Responsibilities
  • Lead and refine comprehensive growth strategies for assigned enterprise accounts.
  • Develop multi-year strategic account plans aligned to customer priorities, Autodesk growth objectives, and long-term value creation.
  • Identify and pursue expansion opportunities across new business units, buyer groups, personas, and use cases.
  • Drive buyer seat expansion and product adoption across complex customer organizations.
  • Lead quarterly business reviews, executive check-ins, and senior stakeholder engagement to review progress, business outcomes, risks, and future growth opportunities.
  • Innovate account strategies that create scalable growth models and influence broader business outcomes.
  • Maximize incremental revenue through upsell, cross-sell, upgraded products, new offerings, and token consumption strategies.
  • Own pipeline development, pipeline health, and forecasting accuracy for growth, expansion, and renewal opportunities.
  • Use data-driven insights to assess account potential, customer spend trends, adoption signals, whitespace, and risk.
  • Proactively adjust account tactics based on customer priorities, market changes, competitive dynamics, and business goals.
  • Deliver predictable revenue performance while identifying transformational opportunities that support long-term customer and Autodesk growth.
  • Build and maintain strategic relationships with C-level executives, senior decision-makers, and key influencers across assigned accounts.
  • Adapt communication style to diverse executive audiences and manage challenging conversations with confidence, empathy, and business relevance.
  • Act as a trusted advisor by connecting Autodesk capabilities to the customer’s strategic objectives and transformation priorities.
  • Develop compelling executive narratives that articulate business value, return on investment, competitive differentiation, and long-term partnership opportunities.
  • Secure and maintain executive sponsorship for strategic initiatives, commercial agreements, and expansion opportunities.
  • Lead complex enterprise negotiations, including expansions, renewals, multi-year agreements, and high-value commercial structures.
  • Build value-based business cases that quantify customer impact and support executive decision-making.
  • Navigate procurement, commercial, legal, and stakeholder complexity to progress opportunities and mitigate risk.
  • Mentor teams in complex deal negotiations and help shape strategic deal approaches across large enterprise opportunities.
  • Strategically lead partnerships with the extended sales team, Technical Sales, Customer Success, Consulting, Marketing, Partner teams, and executive stakeholders.
  • Orchestrate the Account Team Unit to co-develop scalable, impactful customer solutions.
  • Align technical discovery, messaging, value proposition, and commercial strategy to customer needs.
  • Drive accountability across internal teams through clear ownership, communication, and execution cadence.
  • Ensure seamless post-sale handoff to Customer Success for onboarding, implementation, adoption, and ongoing relationship management.
  • Serve as an escalation point for customer challenges and internal alignment issues.
  • Partner with Customer Success and Consulting teams to ensure customers achieve measurable business outcomes from Autodesk solutions.
  • Maintain deep knowledge of the customer’s industry, business model, transformation priorities, competitive landscape, and regulatory environment.
  • Translate industry challenges into tailored Autodesk solutions and differentiated value propositions.
  • Provide customer and market insights to internal Sales, Product, Strategy, and Marketing teams.
  • Influence Autodesk’s go-to-market approach by sharing enterprise customer needs, competitive intelligence, and emerging market opportunities.
  • Represent Autodesk as a strategic thought partner in executive-level customer conversations.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with SaaS, subscription, or consumption-based commercial models.
  • Knowledge of engineering software, manufacturing technologies, or digital transformation solutions.
  • Experience leading enterprise account teams and cross-functional enterprise sales motions.
  • Strong understanding of value-based selling methodologies, executive business reviews, and strategic account planning.
  • Experience working with CRM forecasting, territory planning, and sales analytics tools.

About the company

Autodesk builds software for architects, engineers, construction teams, product designers, and digital artists. Its products include AutoCAD for drafting, Revit for building models, Fusion for product development, and Maya for animation and visual effects. Professionals use these desktop and cloud tools to create digital designs, test alternatives, prepare drawings, and coordinate project information with colleagues before work reaches a building site, factory, or screen. Autodesk earns revenue through software subscriptions, enterprise agreements, and usage-based access, with cloud services connecting teams and their project data. Autodesk was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

1982

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What believers are saying

  • Revenue is growing: August 2026 Autodesk reported $2.05 billion for Q2 fiscal 2027, up 16% year over year.
  • Maintenance software expands the portfolio: August 2026 Autodesk completed its approximately $3.6 billion acquisition of MaintainX.
  • US retirement savings get support: Autodesk's 2026 401(k) match reaches $4,500 for eligible employees contributing $6,000.

What critics are saying

  • Acquisition financing has a short maturity: August 2026 Autodesk borrowed $1 billion through a 364-day MaintainX term loan.
  • Sales staffing faces cuts: January 2026 Autodesk announced a 7% workforce reduction, concentrated in customer-facing sales teams.
  • US vacation accrual has a ceiling: Autodesk's full time nonexempt employees earn 10 hours monthly, capped at 200 hours.

What makes Autodesk unique

  • Product development shares one workspace: Fusion combines mechanical design, machining, simulation, and circuit-board layout in one cloud platform.
  • Building edits stay coordinated: Revit's parametric relationships automatically propagate component changes throughout the model and its drawings.
  • Specialist drafting uses one license: AutoCAD includes seven toolsets covering architecture, electrical, mechanical, mapping, plumbing, plants, and raster work.

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Benefits

  • Paid Vacation
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-2%
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