Senior Sales / Senior Account Executive - French speaker

About lemlist

lemlist is the AI-powered sales engagement platform helping sales teams build pipeline smarter, not harder.

Bootstrapped from day one, we’ve grown from 0 to $50M+ ARR in 8 years without raising a single dollar. Today, 40,000+ sales teams use lemlist to book more meetings and close more deals.

We’re building the next generation of outbound: AI-first, multi-channel, highly personalized, and deeply integrated into the way modern sales teams work. And we’re just getting started.

Note: We are looking for a French native speaker who will mostly focus on the French market. English fluency is mandatory as this is our working language.

Mission

Your mission is to acquire high-quality customers for lemlist and lemlist's product.

• Take charge of the full sales cycle, including prospection, negotiation, closing, and customer onboarding.
• Focus on companies with 200 to 10,000 employees and sales teams between 5 to 100 people across various industries.
• Leverage Inbound (Demo Requests and Product-Led Sales teams) and Outbound (using lemlist to find prospects) — "eat your own dog's food".

Key Results

After 3 months, you will have:

• Shown you can follow the process and well manage high-quality inbound leads.
• Shown you are capable of building an outbound pipeline and closing higher velocity deals (5-10 seats).
• Closed some Inbound / Product-Led-Sales customers.
• Generated revenue.

After 12 months, you will have:

• Achieved quotas for most months.
• Become an expert with the product.
• Built relationships with multiple customers, using referrals as a lever to acquire more customers.

Skills & Requirements

• Fluency in French & English.
• 4+ years of experience in a closing Sales role with a track record as a top performer (top 20%).
• Pipeline generation: ability to find new prospects and create interest to generate 50% of your own pipeline (cold call / cold email / LinkedIn).
• Deal management: experience managing multiple stakeholders, handling 3+ month sales-cycle deals, delivering value, and closing C-level deals.
• Experience working in a highly competitive market.
• Interest in the Sales stack / Sales automation software is a strong plus.
• Team player who is driven and results-oriented.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who can make things work independently.

Why Join lempire?

• High-impact role with direct contributions to company growth.
• Work in a fast-growing SaaS company with exciting career progression opportunities.
• Join a dynamic and passionate team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.