Full-Time

Account Executive

SMB Inbound, Inside Sales

Posted on 9/10/2026

Doctrine

Doctrine

Open-source PHP ORM and DBAL libraries

No salary listed

Paris, France

Hybrid

Up to three days of telework per week, depending on the team.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Product Management
CRM
Marketing
Requirements
  • Significant experience as an Account Executive, Business Developer, or in a similar role, ideally in a software-as-a-service or business-to-business solutions sales environment.
  • Proven ability to manage a complete sales cycle from qualification through negotiation and closing.
  • Ability to achieve and exceed sales objectives, with a strong sense of priorities.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to establish trusted relationships with varied stakeholders.
  • Ability to work autonomously in a fast-growing startup environment.
  • Ability to actively listen to interlocutors' needs and adapt the sales approach accordingly.
  • Ability to collaborate with other departments to achieve shared objectives.
  • Ability to adapt quickly to changes in a constantly evolving environment.
  • Ability to overcome obstacles and persevere to achieve objectives.
Responsibilities
  • Qualify and prioritize marketing-generated and other inbound leads, focusing on small and medium-sized businesses with one to five legal professionals.
  • Conduct thorough and effective discovery conversations to understand prospects' specific challenges and needs and propose the most suitable solution.
  • Demonstrate the software-as-a-service platform and its features in relation to prospects' business needs.
  • Manage the value proposition, negotiate contract terms, and finalize sales through signature.
  • Use the customer relationship management system proactively to keep opportunities and the sales pipeline up to date and follow up rigorously with prospects.
  • Prioritize the warmest opportunities.
  • Participate in weekly pipeline review meetings.
  • Work closely with the Marketing, Product, and Customer Success teams to ensure an excellent customer experience.
  • Share prospect and customer feedback to improve the product and sales processes.
  • Maintain active market awareness of developments in the legal sector and the specific needs of small and medium-sized legal businesses.
  • Propose initiatives to improve lead qualification and sales strategies for this market segment.
  • Meet daily targets for the volume of appointments generated through inbound lead qualification.
  • Achieve target conversion rates from inbound leads into qualified opportunities.
  • Process sales cycles with a focus on quality and effective conversion.
  • Achieve monthly and quarterly sales quotas.

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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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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Company News

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

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