Account Executive - US timezone

Account Executive - US timezone

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🤝 Permanent & Full-time 🪴 Public salary grid and approach - Projected Level of Impact: Owner up to Expert 🌍 Remote position - US time zones (UTC-6 to UTC-3). 🍰 Perks & Benefits

👋 Hi there,

folk is like the sales assistant your team never had. Our CRM is simple, integrated, and proactive. The tool of choice for over 4000+ businesses around the world. folk does the busy work for you, so you can focus on building real relationships.

Ready to make an impact? We want you on our team.

💌 Send us your application

About the role.

As an Account Executive at folk, you’ll be a key player in our growth. You'll not only run demos and close deals but also help shape our sales process and scale our operations.

  • Lead demos & Close deals. Guide prospects through their CRM decision-making process. Position folk as a trusted advisor—helping prospects make informed, strategic decisions for their businesses.
  • Shape sales strategy. Help build sales processes, create initiatives to drive demo bookings, inbound management, product intent detection, and enhance tools to scale our growth.
  • Collaborate across teams. Work with Marketing, Growth, Customer Success, and Product to optimize our approach, targeting high-potential leads, and ensuring customer insights inform future development.

About you.

You're a sales pro with a consultative mindset, a passion for helping others, and deep B2B SaaS expertise. You thrive in fast-paced environments and always go the extra mile to close deals.

What you’ll need to succeed in this role:

  • Previous experience in B2B sales (preferably SaaS), with a focus on demos and lead conversion (ideally 2+ years).
  • A consultative approach—you understand that sales is about solving problems, providing value not just closing deals
  • Exceptional communication skills—you build trust, nurture relationships, and guide prospects through the sales journey.
  • A strong product sense—you know how to empathize with user challenges and pitch folk’s CRM. You are passionate about SaaS, and ideally productivity tools.
  • Fluency in English, either as a native speaker or at a professional level.
  • Organizational excellence—you can juggle high volumes of demos and follow-ups while maintaining focus on results.
  • A team player mentality—you thrive in a collaborative, international setting.

About the team.

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🧜‍♀️ Feven - Account Executive 📍Paris, FR 🔗 Linkedin
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👊 Clovis - Sales 📍Paris, FR 🔗 Linkedin
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🤘 Simo - Founder - CEO 📍 Paris, FR 🔗  Linkedin
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👋 Julien - Scaling Revenue 📍Paris, FR 🔗 Linkedin

Does This Sound Like You?

Then, we should probably meet 🙃

Apply Now with a LinkedIn profile or resume and a quick note telling us why you’re the perfect fit.

We'll review your application and we''ll get back to you within a week. No matter what our decision is you will hear from us 🙃

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Here are some tips for your application.

Here's our hiring process for this role:

  1. 30-minute intro call with Morgane to make sure our expectations are aligned.
  2. 30-minute deep dive call with Simo to cover role specifics and, day-to-day life.
  3. Use case prep, followed by a 60-minute call with Julien and Simo: 30-minute mock call to assess your communication skills and sales approach + 15 minutes to discuss the exercise + 15 minutes Q&A.
  4. 30-minute team call with Feven and Clovis to project the collaboration you might have together and provide additional info on day-to-day.
  5. 30-minute founder call with Jean-Yves - CTO to discuss our approach and vision and make sure we’re on the same page.

Regardless of the position, our interview process typically consists of 5 steps and takes approximately 2.5 weeks to complete.