Strategic Account Executive (Zurich)
Drive new business across a territory by generating pipeline, managing complex sales cycles, and building relationships with multiple stakeholders to secure strategic accounts and deliver predictable revenue.
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ClickUp's mission is to make the world more productive. Our platform brings work together so teams can plan, collaborate, and execute in one place. As an Enterprise Account Executive covering DACH, you will help large organizations reduce fragmented workflows and get more value from a unified work management platform. You will own complex sales cycles, connect ClickUp's capabilities to customer outcomes, and build relationships that support long-term adoption across the region.
The Role:
Build and execute a territory plan for DACH, identifying high-potential accounts and creating qualified pipeline through outbound, partner, and inbound motions.
Own full-cycle Enterprise SaaS sales from discovery and qualification through solution evaluation, business case, negotiation, and close.
Use MEDDIC/MEDDPICC or an equivalent structured methodology to uncover pain, quantify impact, map decision criteria and process, engage economic buyers, and develop champions.
Work with Solutions Engineering and other internal partners to tailor value-led evaluations and navigate business, operations, IT/security, and executive stakeholders.
Maintain accurate CRM data and a dependable forecast, inspect deal health, and surface risks early.
Identify opportunities to expand adoption across departments and regions, partnering with Customer Success on customer outcomes.
Bring actionable market and customer feedback to Sales, GTM, and Product to improve our enterprise approach in DACH.
Qualifications:
3+ years of full-cycle Enterprise or upper-mid-market SaaS sales experience, including personal ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
Evidence of meeting or exceeding quota and building pipeline through proactive outbound activity, not only inbound leads.
Demonstrated use of MEDDIC/MEDDPICC or a comparable qualification approach, with specific examples of complex deals you owned.
Executive communication and consultative discovery skills, with the ability to translate customer needs into a clear business case.
Strong judgment, forecasting discipline, collaboration, and accountability in a fast-changing environment.
Location: Ireland is currently listed as the approved hiring location; the territory is DACH. Confirm location/hub and travel expectations before posting.
Language: [[Confirm whether professional German fluency is required for customer conversations in DACH.]]
Desirable:
Experience selling work-management, productivity, or collaboration software.
Experience expanding product-led adoption into executive-sponsored enterprise programs.
Familiarity with enterprise security, procurement, and multi-entity buying processes in DACH.
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