Sales Position @ 2021.AI: Sales Executive with focus on the European market

Just celebrated its 4 years birthday, 2021.ai is one of the fastest-growing AI companies in Europe focused on closing the gap between AI ambitions and real AI value. We are trusted to help large private and public organizations to stay ahead of the competition, and impact their future with AI. We do that by providing ML/AI-services (AI models, AI platforms and AI governance) to the core of the organizations and business to drive growth, efficiency, and mitigate risk going forward.

The role & key responsibilities 

2021.ai is looking to hire an ambitious Sales Executive to focus on  sales towards the European market. The Sales Executive can be fully or partly based in our office in Copenhagen or working from another location in Europe. The new Sales Executive will report to the COO and be a part of the Sales Team. 

The Sales Executive have experiences from working with enterprise software solutions, focus will primarily be on new business opportunities. The ideal candidate will be well-versed in communicating complex value propositions to large customer accounts in the European market. The Sales Executive will have support from an experienced lead-generation and pre-sales team.

The Sales Executive is responsible for generating new business from customers, engaging at Management and Executive levels. Successful candidates will build relationships while identifying 2021.ai sales opportunities that meet customer’s AI ambitions. To be successful our Sales Executive for the European market  has demonstrated a strong ability to drive direct sales engagements and development, pipeline generation activities, and will have done so, while achieving ambitious sales and personal goals. The Sales Executive for the European market will be developing and managing sales relationships by conducting business driven discussions and negotiations with a proven track record  in closing deals.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have 5-8 years of direct sales experience and, ideally, has a strong existing network and has a proven track record in selling complex business applications/technology solutions at the Management and C-Suite level,. Success in this position requires strong business insight, preferably experience from tech startups, high-growth companies, innovative problem solving skills, experience creating opportunities within large strategic accounts and lengthy sales cycles.

But most important: Experienced in dealing with tough challenges and having the strength and resilience to operate under pressure in a complex business environment.