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Enterprise Account Executive, French Speaking

Posted on 29 September 2026New

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Join Sanity as one of the first sales hires building its presence in France, based in London. • Sell the content infrastructure engineering teams actually want to build on. • Win French enterprises that haven’t heard of Sanity yet, closing deals big enough to prove the market. • Own the full sales cycle, working with SDRs, marketing and product. • Build the local sales playbook as you go. • Work hybrid from the London office, selling in French and working internally in English.

📋 Job Requirements

• Speak French and English fluently. • Show experience closing complex, technical SaaS deals with technical audiences. • Engage developers and executives alike, in their language. • Pick up new products quickly and explain them clearly. • Stay curious, coachable and straight with people. • Feel energised by building something from the ground up.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Bring experience selling into the French enterprise market. • Know French contract and procurement norms. • Bring experience selling developer tools or infrastructure. • Show experience as an early sales hire opening a new market.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Qualify opportunities from SDRs and marketing and decide quickly which to pursue. • Run discovery in French that uncovers the real business case for switching. • Pitch Sanity to economic buyers in French. • Price and negotiate enterprise deals within French contract and procurement norms. • Grow existing French accounts by finding and landing new use cases. • Map accounts from CMS admins to CTOs. • Share client and market feedback about what France needs. • Keep Salesforce, decks and deal documents sharp. • Forecast bookings monthly and quarterly.

About Sanity

😃 What Sanity offers

• Receive a competitive location-based salary and stock options. • Work hybrid from the London office. • Work in a positive, flexible and trust-based environment. • Enjoy a healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs. • Get comprehensive health plans and perks. • Help open a new market as one of the first sales hires.

💖 What makes Sanity unique

Sanity is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. By treating content as data, it lets teams keep a single source of truth and adapt content for any channel without extra effort. Sanity is a 200+ person company that raised an $85 million Series C led by GP Bullhound, with backing from ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify.

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