LemlistSenior Sales / Senior Account Executive - French speaker
Lemlist is hiring a Senior Sales / Senior Account Executive - French speaker for a remote role open to applicants in France. Level rates it ; you can apply on Lemlist.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this sales role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- The posting lists this role as remote.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Salesforce, LinkedIn and b2b sales.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 12 other open roles at Lemlist.
AI in this role
Drive full-cycle B2B sales in the French market using AI-powered sales engagement tools as part of daily prospecting workflows.
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.
We are looking for a french native speaker who will be mostly focusing on the French market that said english fluency is mandatory as this is our working language.
Please read carefully and only apply if you speak French fluently
Mission
Your mission is to acquire high-quality customers for lemlist - our Sales Engagement Platform - and, more generally, lemlist's product.
You will be in charge of the full sales cycle, including prospection, negotiation, the closing phase, and even customer onboarding.
You will focus on companies with 200 to 10,000 employees in various industries and sales teams between 5 to 100 people in various industries.
You'll be both leveraging 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
Show you can follow the process and well manage high quality inbound lead
Shown you are capable of building an outbound pipeline and closing some higher velocity deals (5-10 seats)
Closed some Inbound / Product-Led-Sales customers
Overall, generated some revenue
After 12 months, you will have
Achieved quotas for most months
Became an expert with the product
Build relationships with multiple customers, using referrals as a lever to acquire more customers
Skills
Fluency in French & English
4+ Years of experience in a Sales role with closing and are a top performer (top 20%)
Pipeline generation : you know how to find new prospect & create interest in order to generate 50% of your own pipeline (Cold call /Cold email / LinkedIn)
Deal management : you are used to manage multiple stakeholders in your deal, already have worked on at least 3 months sale-cycle deals and are used to deliver value, and close deals with C-level
Competition management : you already worked in a high competitive market
Interest in the Sales stack / Sales automation software is a strong plus
Competitor: you like to play as a team and hate losing/failing
You are a self-starter; you don't need someone on your back to work hard
You are an entrepreneur at heart and will find a way to make things work. You don't need 100 resources, tools, and people to support you in opening a deal with a prospect and closing it
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.
Interview process
Interview with Victoire (TAM)
Role play “Discovery call” with Grégoire (Sales Manager France)
Business Case Debrief & meeting with Yann (VP sales)
Interview with Charles (CEO)
Reference check
🎯 If you're ready to drive revenue success, we want to hear from you!
How we rate this
Senior Sales / Senior Account Executive - French speaker at Lemlist rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
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- $140k
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where b2b sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cold calling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where lead generation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where negotiation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Salesforce in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: B2b Sales, Cold Calling, Lead Generation, Negotiation, and Salesforce. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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