Senior Account Executive

2024-11-15
Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Checkly
Fully remote, async-first, DevOps SaaS, 40h/week, DACH)Join Checkly, a Gartner Cool Vendor, as a Senior Account Executive (DACH) and be at the forefront of the Monitoring as Code (MaC) movement. We're a fully remote startup on a mission to enable developers to detect and resolve issues 10x faster with code-first synthetic monitoring for modern DevOps. Monitor your APIs and apps at a fraction of the price of legacy providers. Powered by a Monitoring as Code workflow and Playwright.Thousands of developers are using Checkly today, including those at 1Password, Autodesk, AutoTrader, Deno, Render, Sentry, and Vercel.We care about building a team where people of all backgrounds are encouraged to do their best work. To achieve this we built a flexible, fully remote and async-first startup environment with inclusive benefits.What you'll doWe're looking for an Senior Account Executive to join our sales team of driven Account Executives and savvy Solution Engineers. You will be the first person on the ground in the DACH region and will directly report to Timo, our co-founder and Chief Customer Officer. You will work with great customers like DVAG or Allianz to grow our footprint in the existing accounts, but ultimately your job will be to build the DACH territory.What you should haveYou know the SaaS sales cycle end-to-end.You have worked in a similar position before and showed excellent performance closing new contracts as well as growing a customer and making them successful.You are interested in current web technologies and feel comfortable speaking with technical buyers and developers.You worked as an SDR before or have similar experience and know how to nurture leads and break into accounts.You feel comfortable working in a team where everyone helps each other out.Familiarity working with a remote-first company.Excellent spoken and written English and German skills. You are a strong communicator, in presentations, calls, and emails.We believe it is important to meet with our customers in person, which will require that you will be traveling frequently across DACH.Located in Germany, Austria or Switzerland.What we offerBecome part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where you can have a real impactRemote-first, flexible work hours, async-first and transparent cultureStock options27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidaysPaid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave$1,000 learning & visiting budgetCo-working budget or home office setupBi-annual company retreatsEmployment & contractor optionsFind out more here.What we payFair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location.For this role, the range is€206k - €228k OTE (50% base + 50% commission) if you’re in a similar cost of market as Germany, Austria etc.ApplyIf this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women/non-binary people will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you!We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are and what you can expect in our hiring process. We recently also open-sourced our employee handbook!