Account Executive France

Vizzia
Paris, France
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in B2B complex sales with local authorities.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3+ years of B2B account executive experience in long-cycle sales.
    — “3+ years of relevant AE experience in B2B on long cycles”
  • Individuals who have successfully closed deals with multiple stakeholders in the public sector.
    — “multiple stakeholders. You've hit your quota and can explain how”
  • Candidates who can manage a territory as a long-term business unit with CRM rigor.
    — “You run a territory like a small business, with a clean CRM and a reliable forecast”

Things to consider

  • Regular territory travel is required despite hybrid work arrangements.
    — “Hybrid work (regular territory travel required)”
  • Commitment to maintaining detailed pipeline tracking and forecasts is essential.
    — “clean CRM and a reliable forecast”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your experience with technical product conversations in regulated environments.
    — “you can hold the conversation with an IT director or a municipal police chief”
  • Showcase your territory ownership experience and long-term account growth strategies.
    — “You own a territory of municipalities and inter-municipal bodies”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • own a territory of municipalities and inter-municipal bodies
  • drive the strategy end to end
  • grow existing accounts
Typical background
complex sales experienceautonomy and rigorcomfort with technical topics

Skills & requirements

Required

Complex Sales ExperienceAutonomy And RigorComfort With Technical TopicsTeam Spirit

Preferred

Experience Selling To Local Authorities Or The Public SectorKnowledge Of Public ProcurementExperience With A Hardware Offering Or A Heavily Regulated Product

Stack & domain

Complex SalesTechnical TopicsTeam SpiritAutonomySalesPublic Sector

About the role

Original posting from Vizzia via Ashby

VIZZIA AT A GLANCE

Vizzia helps local authorities keep public spaces clean and safe. Our customers are mayors, elected officials and municipal departments. Every deal you close is the start of a real project for a town and its residents. 250+ municipalities are already equipped across France, and we're scaling fast. The territory is our basic unit, and the Account Executive runs it.

THE ROLE

You own a territory of municipalities and inter-municipal bodies, on both products (Waste and Safety), from first contact to signature and beyond.

You drive the strategy end to end: discovery, building the project with the municipality, tender response with pre-sales (you own the deal, they own the deliverable), negotiation, award and handover.

  • Develop new opportunities all the way to signature.
  • Grow existing accounts. A Waste client with a video-protection project, or a Safety client whose estate is expanding, is a built-in expansion path.
  • Own the prospecting strategy with your Territorial Business Developer. Together you form a pod: you decide where and why we call.

You report to the Regional Director, who coaches your deals and runs your weekly pipeline review.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Work your territory. Map your municipalities (elected officials, budget calendar, existing equipment) and keep a territory plan up to date.
  • Run discovery. Identify the decision-maker early, qualify the pain and the cost of inaction, and anticipate the purchasing route (direct award, MAPA, tender). You don't pitch before you understand.
  • Build and close. Demo, proposal, tender response, negotiation, and support up to prefectoral authorisation. Every deal has a dated next step.
  • Own your pipeline. HubSpot is your source of truth and your Monday commit is reliable.
  • Keep improving. VizziAcademy, call reviews, and feedback put into practice on the next deal.

Your first 90 days: certified on both products and running discovery alone by day 30, target pipeline coverage by day 60, a first deal past the presentation stage by day 90.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

A territory owner who builds their own deals rather than waiting for them, and who goes the distance.

Must-haves

  • Complex sales experience. 3+ years of relevant AE experience in B2B on long cycles, with multiple stakeholders. You've hit your quota and can explain how.
  • Autonomy and rigor. You run a territory like a small business, with a clean CRM and a reliable forecast.
  • Comfort with technical topics. Cameras, networks, hosting and regulation. You don't need to be an engineer, but you can hold the conversation with an IT director or a municipal police chief.
  • Team spirit. You play for your pod's results and share what works.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience selling to local authorities or the public sector
  • Knowledge of public procurement (MAPA, tenders, subsidies)
  • Experience with a hardware offering or a heavily regulated product

WHAT WE OFFER

  • A territory of your own. Not a rotating list of leads: municipalities you know and work over the long term.
  • A pod. A dedicated Business Developer who builds your pipeline with you.
  • Teams that deliver. Pre-sales, CS, marketing and public affairs each have a deliverable for your pod.
  • Real sales training through the VizziAcademy: playbook, best-calls library, certification, deal coaching.
  • Real career paths. We promote from within (BDRs becoming AEs), and the team is growing fast, with new countries ahead.
  • A meaningful mission. Every deal you sign helps a city become cleaner and safer.

COMPENSATION & OTHER

OTE between €90k-€100k depending on the relevance and length of your experience, with a 55% fixed and a 45% variable (uncapped).

🏡 Hybrid work (regular territory travel required)

🏝 “Contrat cadre” (forfait jours 218 j) + RTT

💻 MacBook & phone

💸 BSPCE

🍜 60% coverage of meal vouchers worth €9 per day worked

🚃 50% Navigo pass reimbursement

🏥 Mutuelle (50% covered)

💼 Offices located in central Paris (9th arrondissement)

☀️ Annual offsite with the whole team and plenty of company events

HIRING PROCESS

Four steps, each one a sales exercise:

  • Call with the Talent Acquisition Manager (30 min): your background and motivation.
  • Interview with a Regional Sales Director (30 min): your view of the sales craft and the role.
  • Business case with role-play (1h30): a territory diagnosis, a commercial strategy and a live sales exercise.
  • Meeting with the CRO (30 min): your ambitions and what's expected at Vizzia.

If you've read this far, you're probably very interested in the role and/or Vizzia. We'd like to hear from you even if you feel you don't check every box.

Source: Vizzia careers (Ashby)

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