Growth Enterprise Account Executive (German speaking) at Udemy

Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning. Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact. Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead. Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home. Learn more about us on our company page. About your skills • Coachability: Your drive to take initiative toward your own skill development leads to measurable growth and skill expansion in your job. You habitually explore new resources and solicit feedback to improve. You are both a mentor and a mentee, and enjoy being part of a team that celebrates wins, learns from losses, and improves together. You are celebrated for your emotional intelligence. • Sales-Process Oriented: Your sales process is a science, and you are able to articulate the repeatable habits that drive your high performance. You have command of your pipeline, are constantly driving business forward, and strategically outbound with a strong command of your future business. • Business Acumen: Your curiosity extends to both your clients and your work environment, resulting in a deep understanding of business dynamics. Externally, you actively seek insights into how prospects operate their businesses, meticulously analyzing financial statements and constructing organizational charts. Internally, you delve into past account histories, collaborate across functions to solve problems, and continuously refine internal processes through iterative improvements. • Grit: As a tenured sales professional, you've encountered your fair share of obstacles, and have developed a robust toolkit of strategies and emotional resilience to overcome them. You are results-driven, know when to pull in additional resources, and where to prioritize your focus. You demonstrate adaptability in the face of both internal and external changes, embodying a growth mindset and general business positivity. About this role As a Udemy Business Growth Enterprise Account Executive you are responsible for developing and acquiring new business sales as well as expansion of your existing DACH client base, you can either be based in our EMEA HQ in Dublin or remote in Germany. You will prospect, consult, and sell to companies with 1,250 - 6,000 employees, across all industries, within the DACH region. In this role, you will learn to take full ownership over a territory, develop sales plans and strategies, and become accustomed to identifying all types of opportunities and converting them into tangible, long term pipeline and revenue. What you'll be doing • Managing full sales cycle from discovery to negotiation, selling both transactional and multi-year 6 figure deals • Building pipeline with both prospects and customers by setting meetings with HR/L&D, Executives and by multithreading into other Lines of Business department leaders • Land & Expand your client base by understanding current use case and identifying areas for expansion, through both individual efforts and partnering with Customer Success counterparts, resulting in mid-term and renewal up-sells • Develop new sales tactics and outbound campaigns, while sharing results and successful aspects with your Growth Enterprise colleagues • Creating and delivering accurate sales forecasts through strong pipeline management • Collaborating with the greater sales team to share best practices and innovate • Team selling with your cross-functionally partners in Sales Development, Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Content, Product and Executives to help grow your book of business What you’ll have • Minimum 5 years of closing experience to department leaders and C-suite at mid-size businesses (in the 1000+ employee range) • B2B SaaS sales experience • Enterprise-style go-to-market playbook that includes value-based selling and leveraging Value Engineers/Solution Engineers in pre-sales • Experience partnering with other Account Executives in an overlay specialist sales model • Proven prospecting and territory management experience • Strong writing, strategic thinking, and planning skills • Ability to adapt, learn and operate with a growth mindset Why work here? You’ll grow here. Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you. AI is real here. We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways. You’ll own your work. We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact. You’ll build with others. We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction. You’ll see your impact. What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs? Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together. Our Benefits Start with U Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process. Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies. 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