Account Executive, Mistral AI
Enterprise
Generative AI model developers
Posted today
Generative AI model developers
501-1000 employees
Posted today
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make frontier AI ubiquitous, and to provide tailor-made AI to all the builders.
Role
Who you are
- 7-10 years of experience in enterprise sales or consultative selling, ideally with a highly complex, technical product
- Deep understanding of the US market dynamics and enterprise landscape
- Experience of consultative selling of highly complex, technical products
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field
- Significant work experience within the AI ecosystem or related data/infrastructure field
- Experience working at a successful, fast-growing startup, ideally in deep-tech
- Strong technical skills to navigate quickly evolving products and steer technical discussions
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English, and a bonus for French
- Outstanding negotiation and communication skills to build relationships and close deals effectively
What the job involves
- As an Enterprise AE in our US market, you will play a crucial role in driving Mistral AI's adoption among large enterprise customers across various industries.
- Based in either the Bay Area or New York, you will manage the entire sales cycle, from initial outreach to closing deals, collaborating closely with our dedicated implementation, tech, and legal teams.
- Your strategic vision and execution will be instrumental in establishing Mistral AI as a leading AI solutions provider in the US
- Conduct strategic outreach and manage warm introductions to potential enterprise customers
- Convert inbound leads where there are opportunities for upselling or more bespoke agreements
- Provide hands-on support and guidance to clients during the Proof of Concept (POC) phase, ensuring a smooth and successful evaluation process
- Leverage successful POC outcomes to convert them into long-term, revenue-generating contracts
- Develop and execute strategic sales plans to convert leads into valued customers
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all external stakeholders, managing deals and aligning all stakeholders, including customer engineering, product, and commercial teams
- Handle customer negotiations end-to-end, collaborating with our legal and implementation specialist teams
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with C-level executives, heads of innovation/AI and other key decision makers within target organizations
- Understand their specific challenges and position Mistral AI's solutions as integral to their strategic initiatives
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of our product's technical intricacies and articulate its value proposition effectively to potential clients
- Work closely with our implementation team to address customer questions, concerns, and challenges during pre-sales, deployment, and post-deployment phases
- Collaborate with our technical team to address any customer inquiries or concerns.
- Empower internal teams with the knowledge and resources gathered from customer conversations to drive the product roadmap and align on priorities
Our take
Founded by Facebook AI researchers, Mistral AI focuses on developing open-source generative AI models to "make AI useful." It emerged in early 2023, quickly achieving a $260 million valuation.
Mistral features up to 176 billion parameters, and its open-source nature has sparked concerns about potential misuse. However, Mistral remains a formidable competitor in the AI landscape, challenging models from Google and Meta.
In 2025, Mistral secured a massive €1.7 billion funding round, raising its valuation to €11.7 billion. This Series B funding, led by European chip firm ASML, underscores significant interest in alternatives to ChatGPT and a push away from Silicon Valley dependence by European AI competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$2.0bn
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$543.1m
SERIES B
Total funding: $3.1bn
Company benefits
- Competitive bonus structure
- Equity
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
Company HQ
Villette, Paris, France
Leadership
Timothee Lacroix
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously PhD and Software Engineer Intern at Facebook and Visiting Undergraduate at CAlab UCSD
Guillaume Lample
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Research Student and Scientist at Facebook AI and Research Intern at Jane Street Capital
Arthur Mensch
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, Post-doc researcher at École normale supérieure, Visiting Researcher at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and PhD Student at Inria
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