Account Executive

AI overview

This role empowers you to lead complex enterprise sales efforts, contributing directly to shaping the company's go-to-market strategy and growth trajectory.

Your mission

As our first dedicated Account Executive, you will own complex, high-value enterprise deals and play a central role in scaling Tenzir beyond founder-led sales.

You manage the full enterprise sales cycle end-to-end, working closely with our founders, VP Sales, and pre-sales engineering. You sell to sophisticated buyers across security, observability, and data engineering, combining consultative selling with strong technical credibility.

This role is designed for a high-performing sales professional ready to grow into a future Head of Sales, shaping our go-to-market strategy, sales playbooks, and team as we scale.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Own the full enterprise sales cycle from discovery to close

  • Engage senior stakeholders (CISOs, security leaders, data and platform teams) in consultative sales conversations

  • Lead demos and POCs, translating technical capabilities into clear business value

  • Build and manage a healthy enterprise pipeline across Europe

  • Refine and iterate our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) based on market feedback

  • Develop scalable sales processes, playbooks, and reporting standards

  • Partner closely with pre-sales engineering and product teams to influence roadmap and positioning
  • Contribute to our AI-powered pipeline generation strategy and messaging

Your profile

Must-haves

  • 5+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience selling technical or infrastructure products

  • Proven track record of closing €100K+ multi-stakeholder deals with long sales cycles

  • Experience selling into security, observability, or data infrastructure organizations

  • Established network within enterprise security or data teams across Europe

  • Strong technical acumen (architectures, integrations, security requirements)

  • Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills

  • Professional fluency in English (written and spoken)

  • Residency in an EU time zone with the right to work in the EU or an EU-adequate country

Strong technical understanding (important plus)

  • SIEM platforms: Familiarity with Splunk, Elastic Security, QRadar, Sentinel, Chronicle

  • Data pipelines & streaming: Understanding of Kafka, Cribl, Logstash, Fluentd, Vector use cases

  • Observability tools: Knowledge of Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana value propositions

  • Security tools: Awareness of CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Networks positioning

  • Data platforms: Understanding of Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift architectures

  • Ability to discuss log management, data ingestion, security analytics workflows, TCO, data volumes, and retention strategies

Nice-to-haves

  • Background in security, data engineering, or a related technical field

  • Experience navigating technical buyer journeys
  • Familiarity with modern sales tooling (e.g. Clay, Apollo, Outreach)

Why us?

  • Career growth: Fast-track opportunity into sales leadership as our first Account Executive, with a clear path toward Head of Sales

  • High impact: You are not joining a large sales organization—you are building it and shaping our GTM motion

  • AI-driven GTM: Work with intelligent pipeline generation instead of traditional SDR-led outbound spam

  • Tech depth: Sell a technically sophisticated product solving real enterprise-scale problems

  • European reach: Work with leading enterprise customers across the EU market

  • Compensation: Base salary range of €70,000–€90,000 (depending on experience and location)

  • On-target earnings: €150,000–€170,000

  • Remote work: Fully remote within EU time zones

  • Equipment: Provided for employees; BYOD for independent contractors
  • Team & culture: Quarterly in-person meetups in Hamburg or rotating EU cities, plus one annual company-wide retreat

Interview process

Our hiring process typically takes 2–3 weeks and includes the following steps:

  • Initial call (45 minutes) with our COO and VP Sales

  • Technical sales simulation (60 minutes) including demo presentation and discovery roleplay with a founder

  • Team fit conversation (30 minutes) with HR

Reference checks and final offer conclude the process.


Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Equipment provided for employees: Provided for employees; BYOD for independent contractors
  • Remote-Friendly: Fully remote within EU time zones
Salary
€70.000 – €90.000 per year
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