Commercial Account Executive, Algolia

Italian and Spanish Speaker

Salary not provided
Salesforce
Junior and Mid level
Paris
Algolia

Site search and discovery powered by AI

Open for applications

Algolia

Site search and discovery powered by AI

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceAPIeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Salesforce
Junior and Mid level
Paris

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceAPIeCommerce

Company mission

Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.

Role

Who you are

  • We're looking for candidates who raise the level of our teams. You should value and practice transparency, have the humility to accept your weaknesses and continuously strive to improve both personally and professionally
  • Speak Italian, Spanish and English
  • You love building human relationships and believe that a happy customer is our best evangelist
  • Natural understanding of the sales process
  • 2+ years of experience in a "technical" closing role (esp. in B2B tech sales)
  • Multi-tasker who can adapt to changing situations
  • Willingness to speak at events/conferences
  • Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

Desirable

  • SaaS sales experience
  • Experience at a startup
  • Proficiency with Salesforce

What the job involves

  • As an Algolia Commercial Account Executive, you will be responsible for creating strong relationships with our customers and building on these relationships to close deals
  • You should be comfortable researching prospective customers and adapting sales strategies to meet their needs
  • You will also play an integral role in defining our sales model
  • You know the ins and outs of Algolia, understand how we can benefit each prospect and will ultimately be the front line of our revenue growth
  • We expect you to take ownership and be able to execute without defined processes and implicit direction
  • Managing and growing a sales pipeline
  • Strategic prospecting into key accounts and verticals
  • Communicate transparently both internally and externally
  • Turn inbound and outbound leads into happy Algolia users
  • Make every Algolia user a satisfied customer, regardless of the deal size
  • Collaborate across teams to better focus customer-facing efforts
  • Build compelling demonstrations and sales materials

Our take

While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.

To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

33% female employees

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jul 2021

$150m

SERIES D

Oct 2019

$110m

SERIES C

Total funding: $334m

Company benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Mental Health Care
  • Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Life Insurance

Company values

  • Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
  • Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
  • Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
  • Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
  • Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer

Company HQ

Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Bernadette Nixon

(CEO, not founder)

Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText


People progressing

Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.

Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.

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