Enterprise Account Executive, Ashby

• 📣 You demonstrate mastery of clear communication. You ask questions with precision and can explain complex concepts in simple terms
• 💰 You have strong track record in Enterprise SaaS sales, having closed many $100k sales, and overachieved $1M+ quotas consistently. You have won competitive rip-and-replace opportunities of core/platform technologies
• 🎯 You are proactive in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, and comfortable sourcing >50% of your own pipeline. You're both resourceful and innovative in finding new business opportunities
• 💻 You can confidently deliver micro-demos before engaging your SE partners. You can't imagine not being fluent in the product you sell
• 🎧 You are highly skilled at discovery. You believe in preparation to establish a point of view, and through discovery validate or refine your perspective to identify a project's business drivers aligned to executive priorities
• 🤝 You have strong business acumen. You quickly connect the dots between technical problems and their downstream business impacts. You craft compelling business cases with this context
• ⚔️ You're adept at competitive or evangelical selling in new or established markets
• 🏔️ You skillfully guide prospects through the evaluation—engaging the right stakeholders at the right time to create consensus for a strategic technology decision
• 🤓 You enjoy becoming an expert and tailoring discussions to address each prospect’s unique challenges
• ⚡️ Your peers describe you as action-oriented and persistent. You're always on the leaderboard for outbound effort and pipeline created
• 🔍 Your peers describe you as detail oriented. You write and send crisp follow-up emails, on time. You also take pride in internal operations, like real-time CRM updates. (We use HubSpot, Gong, Chili Piper and Apollo.)
• ✈️ You are willing to travel at least 25% of the time for customer engagements and events
• 🤝 You have 5+ years of full-cycle closing experience and have closed many >$100,000 ACV opportunities
• 📢 You have experience selling complex platform technologies in a sales-led GTM motion
• 📈 You are a new business hunter and are confident in your abilities to self-source >50% of your own pipeline
• 🌍 You have sold to multiple regions within EMEA and have strong written and verbal fluency in both English and German
• 🇩🇪 You are based in Germany

Desirable

• TA tools in the Enterprise represent a huge market opportunity, a $1B+ TAM, and the incumbents are legacy players. We are displacing a collection of tools (ATS, Sourcing & CRM, Scheduling, Analytics, Offers & Approvals) with a consolidated talent suite. This is a proven playbook that Workday used to win the HCM market as customers realize value in a multitude of ways
• We are seeking a German-fluent and Germany-based Enterprise Account Executive to help us win Enterprise (1,000+ employees) accounts by managing the full sales cycle from pipeline generation through to closed-won
• In this role, you'll focus on new logo acquisition. Our emphasis is on your ability to excel in the areas listed below and your appetite for continuous growth & improvement

• Our interview process is thorough — we aim to ensure each person that joins the team is the right fit for Ashby and will provide ample information for you to assess if Ashby is the right fit for you. The process for this role is as follows:
• Intro Call (30 min) - You'll meet with a Recruiter to discuss your fit for the role and address questions about our market and solution
• Written Exercise - You'll complete a short take home assignment to showcase your outbound muscle
• Experience Deep Dive (60 min) - You'll walk the Hiring Manager [Casper Bergmans] through your career journey in some detail to highlight your experience, achievements, and points of learning to understand how you've developed into the professional you are today
• Challenge Interview (90 min) - This will be made up of two parts:
• Discovery and Demo Role Play (60 min)
• Deal Strategy Discussion (30 min)