Senior Account Manager (French-speaking) - Lokalise

At Lokalise, we empower businesses to expand into new markets with ease and profitability. Our AI-powered localization platform streamlines the management of software and marketing content, ensuring consistent brand voice across all languages and channels. By automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools, and centralizing translation memory and terminology, we enable product, engineering, and marketing teams to collaborate seamlessly, launching globally up to 10× faster and at 80% lower cost.

Trusted by thousands of businesses in over 100 countries, Lokalise helps millions worldwide access digital services in their native languages. Our platform integrates smoothly into design, development, and content workflows, supported by a customer-loved team, helping you scale with consistency and control.

The Role: Senior Account Manager (French-speaking)

We are seeking a Senior Account Manager to join our EMEA team, focusing on strengthening relationships with existing customers and driving sustainable revenue growth through retention, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.

In this role, you will own the commercial outcomes and full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts. This includes protecting customer retention, supporting successful renewals, identifying expansion opportunities, and ensuring customers continue to realize value from Lokalise over time. You will manage a portfolio of strategic customers, with a particular focus on French-speaking stakeholders and organizations. You will act as a trusted commercial partner, helping customers connect Lokalise’s capabilities to their business objectives, localization workflows, and international growth plans.

You will report to the Director of Sales EMEA and collaborate closely with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Product, Finance, and Legal. Your performance will be primarily measured on account expansion through upselling, cross-selling, broader customer adoption, and gross revenue retention across your portfolio.

This is a full-time, remote position. While our company operates exclusively on a remote basis, you must reside and have the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, or Spain.

What You Will Do

• Own account commercial outcomes: Take responsibility for the full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.
• Protect retention and renewal outcomes: Monitor account health, customer engagement, product value, and commercial risks to identify potential retention challenges early and coordinate effective action with internal teams.
• Drive account expansion: Identify and execute upsell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities, leading commercial conversations and negotiations with a focus on achieving and surpassing sales quotas.
• Develop account strategies: Create and maintain clear account plans based on customer goals, stakeholder priorities, product adoption, business risks, renewal plans, and opportunities for broader collaboration.
• Lead consultative customer conversations: Advise customers on how to improve their localization and content workflows, connect their needs to Lokalise’s solutions, and articulate clear business value and return on investment.
• Navigate complex enterprise sales processes: Coordinate multi-stakeholder opportunities, procurement activity, contract negotiations, and legal discussions, ensuring progress toward successful commercial outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally and maintain accurate reporting: Work closely with Customer Success and Solutions Architecture to support retention and expansion, collaborate with Product, Finance, and Legal to resolve customer needs, and maintain accurate CRM records, account plans, pipeline updates, and forecasts.
• Use AI to elevate your work: Proactively explore and apply AI tools and approaches to improve customer research, account planning, decision-making, productivity, and go-to-market impact.

What You Must Have

• Full account lifecycle ownership: +5 years of experience owning the commercial lifecycle of strategic or enterprise customer accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling in a quota-based B2B SaaS environment.
• Proven commercial outcomes: A track record of protecting customer revenue, achieving gross revenue retention or comparable retention targets, and generating measurable account expansion.
• Professional fluency in French, including the ability to lead customer conversations, presentations, and commercial negotiations in French.
• Ability to understand complex SaaS products, with experience selling to business, marketing, and sales stakeholders, and translating product capabilities into clear commercial value.
• Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to collaborate effectively across a remote, international organization.
• Experience engaging and influencing C-level and senior stakeholders, including the ability to lead strategic conversations and align solutions with business priorities.
• Strong commercial skills, including experience identifying growth opportunities, negotiating contracts, and navigating complex procurement or legal discussions.
• Competency using AI tools to accelerate customer research, synthesis, account planning, and decision-making, with a proactive mindset toward adopting new AI-enabled ways of working.

It’s a Plus If You Have

• Experience managing or selling to enterprise customers in the French market, regardless of where you are based.
• Experience engaging technical stakeholders (e.g., IT, engineering, product) in addition to business buyers.
• Experience selling localization, translation management, or other workflow software.
• Experience working with procurement processes such as RFPs, security reviews, or complex enterprise buying committees.
• Familiarity with structured sales methodologies or account planning frameworks.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary and employee stock options.
• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.
• Co-working budget for those days you want a change from your home office.
• Flexible vacation policy to recharge when you need to.
• Home office setup budget: monitor, desk, ergonomics, whatever helps you do your best work.
• Learning & development budget to grow your skills and career.
• Health insurance to keep you covered.
• Wellness allowance to support your mental and physical well-being.
• Great startup culture: remote but close-knit, with regular retreats and social events to stay connected.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.