Full-Time

Account Executive

Eastern Europe & Balkan

Posted on 8/19/2026

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

1,001-5,000 employees

Hospitality market insights and pricing platform

No salary listed

Barcelona, Spain

Hybrid

Hybrid role with work-from-home and office options.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales

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Requirements
  • 1–3 years of experience in a closing sales role.
  • Knowledge of the hospitality industry through work experience, selling experience, or established relationships in the sector.
  • Ability to use artificial-intelligence sales tools as part of the selling process and adopt new tooling quickly.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to sell on value rather than price, including confidence engaging stakeholders from general managers to C-suite executives.
  • Fluency in English and at least one Slavic language, written and spoken.
Responsibilities
  • Own the territory and sales quota by building and executing a strategic territory plan, generating net-new pipeline, maintaining 3x pipeline coverage, and forecasting accurately.
  • Source a meaningful share of the pipeline through outbound sequences, ideal customer profile targeting, Lighthouse Connect events, and industry conferences.
  • Own the full sales cycle from prospecting through closing.
  • Use MEDDPICC to qualify and advance opportunities through stage gates with evidence.
  • Use the AI Pre-Sales Agent to identify gaps before major calls, the Enablement Agent for call preparation, discovery frameworks, and positioning, and the Coaching Agent to identify patterns in the pipeline and win rate.
  • Understand hotels’ commercial challenges across pricing, distribution, and business intelligence, and position the full Lighthouse platform as an integrated solution.
  • Meet and exceed sales targets through new business and by identifying expansion and upgrade opportunities within accounts.
  • Partner with Product to share market feedback and influence the product roadmap.
  • Represent Lighthouse at industry events to build the brand and professional network.
Desired Qualifications
  • Hospitality and software-as-a-service experience.
  • Experience with MEDDPICC or similar qualification frameworks.

Lighthouse is a platform for travel and hospitality that delivers market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools to understand demand and uncover revenue opportunities. It shows the competitive landscape, tracks ADR and RevPAR, manages OTA parity issues, and provides real-time distribution intelligence to optimize channel strategies. It also lets Destination Marketing Organizations monitor short-term rental impact and visitor trends to shape campaigns. Through a subscription service, hospitality professionals get live data, on-the-books rates, competitor calendars, and event insights to support data-driven decisions, with the goal of maximizing revenue, optimizing distribution, and improving partner relationships.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$470M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • January 2026 HotelTechAwards wins and March 2026 Fast Company recognition strengthen buyer confidence.
  • June 2026 Ernest beta and Review Agent expand upsell paths into daily operations.
  • May 2026 Hotelrank.ai acquisition targets AI visibility budgets as hotels chase direct bookings.

What critics are saying

  • ChatGPT, Gemini, and Booking.com own traveler demand; Lighthouse loses funnel control by 2027.
  • Flat-fee AI booking tools compress revenue while incumbents like SiteMinder and Duetto copy features.
  • Integrating 500 systems creates support drag; one major PMS outage breaks customer trust immediately.

What makes Lighthouse unique

  • Lighthouse spans pricing, parity, BI, and AI distribution across 80,000 hotels in 185 countries.
  • June 2026 Ernest and Connect AI tie workflows to 500 integrations, not dashboards.
  • March 2026 ChatGPT app and Hotelrank.ai make Lighthouse visible inside AI discovery.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Parental Leave

Referral Bonuses

Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

-3%
Associated Press
Jun 9th, 2026
Lighthouse launches Ernest, AI teammate that transforms general AI into hospitality performance tools

Lighthouse, a commercial operating platform for travel and hospitality, has launched Ernest, an AI assistant designed to bridge general AI models with hotel-specific operations. The system delivers intelligence, recommends actions and automates tasks across existing hospitality platforms. Ernest functions as a conversational interface that analyses data from property management systems, central reservation systems and booking channels. It provides competitive analysis, demand signals and management presentations whilst offering strategic recommendations based on hospitality context. With user approval, Ernest can automate tasks across more than 500 platform integrations. The AI assistant is currently available in beta for select customers, with broader global availability planned throughout 2026. Lighthouse positions Ernest as addressing fragmented systems and repetitive work facing revenue, marketing and distribution teams.

Lodging Magazine
May 28th, 2026
Lighthouse acquires Hotelrank.ai to help hotels track AI platform rankings and boost direct bookings

Lighthouse has acquired Hotelrank.ai, adding real-time analytics to its Connect AI solution. The integration enables hotels to monitor their rankings, perception and booking performance across AI travel platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini and Anthropic. Hotelrank.ai tracks how properties appear in AI-generated responses, monitoring citations, rankings and competitive positioning. Hotels can now measure their AI visibility scores, analyse direct versus OTA link distribution, and benchmark against competitors. The combined platform allows hotels to optimise for AI-powered discovery and direct bookings. CEO Sean Fitzpatrick stated that hotels mastering "agentic discovery and conversion" early will gain competitive advantage. The solution aims to prepare properties for future autonomous AI agent bookings, enabling them to capture increased demand from this emerging channel.

LiveLawBiz
Apr 8th, 2026
CCI approves Citrus Investment's 0.4% stake increase in Hitachi Construction Machinery and HCJI takeover

The Competition Commission of India has approved a transaction involving Citrus Investment LLC and Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd. Under the deal, Citrus will acquire an additional 0.4% stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery through stock market purchases and take sole control of HCJI Holdings KK, a joint venture previously jointly owned. Citrus is an investment firm that holds shares without operating businesses. Hitachi Construction Machinery is a listed manufacturer of construction equipment, whilst HCJI functions solely as a holding entity. The regulator said a detailed order will follow.

Associated Press
Mar 4th, 2026
Hotels can now take commission-free bookings directly through ChatGPT via Lighthouse's new app

Lighthouse has launched The Hotels Network app, the first direct booking application for hotels within ChatGPT. Powered by Lighthouse's Connect AI engine, the app enables hotels to present brand-controlled content, live rates and commission-free bookings directly in AI conversations. The app operates on a flat-fee subscription model with zero booking commissions and is available to hotels worldwide. It allows properties to control their brand narrative, display direct rates and answer traveller queries inside ChatGPT, which now reaches over 800 million users globally. Built on the Model Context Protocol standard, Connect AI creates a live data bridge between hotels and AI platforms, ensuring recommendations draw on accurate, real-time property information rather than scraped summaries. The app is now live in the ChatGPT App Directory.

PhocusWire
May 28th, 2025
Moving Beyond Points: The State Of Hotel Loyalty Programs

The points-based loyalty program—once the gold standard of. guest retention—may no longer be the universal magnet it once was. In today’s. fractured hospitality landscape, loyalty is becoming more personal, digital and