Account Executive (Turku/Remote)
Vaadin, Finland

Are you looking for new challenges in your career as a sales professional? How would you like to be working in an international environment for a company that is world-renowned for its open-source technology? Well, we have good news for youthe next step in your career is only one application away.

At Vaadin we are offering the possibility, for an experienced Account Executive to join our US sales team to work with our US based customers.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to turn happy developers into happy customers in the community of 150 000 Vaadin developers. Your responsibilities would be to consult our customers and sell our commercial offering (both consulting services and product subscriptions). Our Account Executives focus on B2B sales and need to be able to talk fluently with a variety of customer roles ranging from CTOs to software architects and developers.

You will be reporting to our VP of Sales and working together with other account executives, consultants and sales representatives. In this position you'll be concentrating on our US based customers, so it is expected that up to 20 hours/week of the delivered work is done between 5 pm and 9 pm EET. You will be based in Turku, Finland or work remotely from anywhere within 2h EET (Finland).

Your responsibilities

• Technical consulting sales, product subscription sales and account management
• Development and implementation of sales funnels and pipeline
• Work with service delivery department to maximize customer satisfaction
• Collaboration with our marketing department
• Execution of sales campaigns

Desired skills amp; experience

• Strong desire to succeed and a positive attitude
• Fluent English skills (spoken amp; written)
• Experience (3+ years) in technical sales, enterprise sales and professional services sales
• Experience in software development - especially Java and Web space - is a strong plus
• Good social skills and team spirit
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree
• Can-do attitude
• Desire to learn and challenge the status quo

About us

Vaadin is the company behind the popular open-source Vaadin development platform that enables development teams to be more effective at building great user experiences while hiding the complexity needed to make modern web apps. The technology is used daily by thousands of professional software developers in more than 150 countries. We sells add-on tools, support and services for accelerating the software projects based on Vaadin technology. Our customers include 40% of the Fortune 500 companies.

We offer

• A possibility of being part of a growing team that builds its business on a sizeable open source community
• A combination of cheerful startup atmosphere and solid 20 years of industry experience
• A creative and friendly work environment with minimal bureaucracy and super open culture
• Flexible working hours
• Free choice of your work equipment
• Competitive salary, benefits and commission plan

Why join Vaadin? Check out what your future colleagues have to say :)

Candidates will be contacted as they apply, and the position will be fulfilled as soon as a suitable candidate is found. Send your resume and application today!

For questions or more info don't hesitate to contact the VP of Sales Ville Salomäki,

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