Enterprise Account Executive, Optro
France
£72-108k
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AI-powered GRC software
Open for applications
AI-powered GRC software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£72-108k
Offers Commission
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine GRC through a single, AI-powered system of action.
Role
Who you are
- LANGUAGE: Requiring bilingual candidates in French & English
- If you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment and are passionate about driving business transformation, join our innovative, growing sales team at Optro as an Enterprise Account Executive (France)
- Minimum of 5-7 years experience working with enterprise technology
- Must be bilingual in French & English
- Experience hunting and closing business in the French Market
- Experience with complex sales cycles
- Affinity for software, IT security, and risk management solutions
- Proven success in securing new logos and value selling
- Passionate focus on Pipeline Generation & Opportunity Progression, including strategic planning and preparation
- Desire to be coached and a structured approach to work with a defined sales process
- Experience in collaborating with other departments, partners, and team members to achieve success
- An 'in the field' mentality that drives you to meet customers and prospects face-to-face whenever possible
What the job involves
- TERRITORY: This role will cover the territory of France
- Recognized for our commitment to workplace excellence, we foster a supportive culture where your growth and success are our top priorities
- Take ownership of an Enterprise territory of both large publicly listed and privately held accounts, driving growth with both new logo acquisition and existing logo expansion
- Operate from the London office in a hybrid model, focused on the territory of France
- Report directly to our Area Director EMEA as an individual contributor
- Become a trusted advisor to prospect accounts and existing customers, showcasing your industry expertise and high EQ
- Link AuditBoard's leading technology to robust business cases that secure CFO approval and Executive Sponsorship
- Collaborate with Sales Engineering, Demand Generation, and Business Value Consulting, throughout your sales cycles
- Create opportunities using innovative ideas and new techniques, tools, joint field marketing initiatives, trade shows, and partners
- Collaborate with our Big 4 Alliance partners to build strong, mutually beneficial relationships that focus on customer-centric outcomes
- Win deals through meticulous planning and preparation, adopting a consultative approach to solving real business problems, alongside flawless execution of legal and IT security negotiations/onboarding
Our take
Optro (formerly AuditBoard) provides risk and compliance software for large businesses. The company's founders spent years working at the Big Four and other global enterprises, and realized that many audit activities were still taking place in Excel sheets, or using legacy software like IBM's OpenPages, which hadn't kept up to date with the latest reporting requirements.
The result was an end-to-end platform for managing risk, helping enterprises to streamline internal audit, SOX compliance, controls management, risk management, and security compliance. It's a top-rated cloud-based platform and has won numerous awards, with the company being consistently named the market leader in Audit Management.
Now Optro is focused on expanding its AI-powered GRC platform. Following its rebrand from AuditBoard, the company acquired AI-native SOX automation platform Midship to help audit teams automate repetitive work and focus more on strategic risk analysis. And impressively, more than 50% of the Fortune 500 now use Optro's platform as it continues building AI-driven tools for risk, compliance, and cybersecurity teams.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2018
$40m
SERIES B
Apr 2017
$3.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness benefits: High quality health plans and access to hormonal and family-building support.
- Time away from work: Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, and more.
- Financial benefits: Beyond a competitive salary, plans are provided to assist in your financial future including retirement and pension plans as well as life and disability insurance.
- Parental leave: Parents are eligible for time off to care for their newborn, adopted child, or foster child. Parental leave benefits and pay vary by location.
- Professional development: Continuously grow through development workshops, mentoring programs, and more.
- Community impact: We partner with communities to provide services in addition to sponsoring our own events.
- Live your best life: Invest in yourself, on us. Our monthly wellness stipend is designed to support your life beyond the screen, giving you the flexibility to fuel your passions and your well-being.
- Mental health: Access to Headspace’s well known meditation support plus coaching and therapy, for you and additional loved ones.
Company HQ
Wilmington, DE
Leadership
Raul Villar Jr.
(CEO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Raul was the CEO of Paycor for nearly 6 years. They also spent over 8 years at AdvancedMD and nearly 22 years at ADP.
Jim Sperduto
(CGO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Jim spent over 30 years at ADP. While there, they held a number of roles, including President of Small Business, Retirement, and Insurance Services.
Haibei (Happy) Wang
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining Optro in 2023, Haibei was the CTO at Everbridge and Skupos. They also held VP roles at Globality, AccelOps and Scripps Network Interactive.
April Crichlow
(CMO)April spent over 17 years at SAP, ultimately as CMO at SAP SuccessFactors. They then spent 3 years at Centrical as CMO before joining Optro in 2025.
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