what you'll do:

• Own large deals end-to-end: Discovery, demos, security review, procurement, contract redlines, you carry the deal from the first call through signature uncovering telli’s value for the customer

• Generate the your own pipeline: Our BDR team supports you; they don't replace you. You target the accounts, you write the outbound, you make the calls

• Multi-thread complex buying committees: Heads of Sales, Operations, CX, Legal, IT, Security, Procurement, and CFOs at companies of 500 to 10,000+ employees. You build the relationships before procurement comes in to test them

• Own a quota and hit revenue targets: Close large deals that meaningfully contribute to telli’s growth

• Shape telli's enterprise playbook: qualification, multi-thread strategy, executive engagement, pricing. What works for you becomes the team standard

• Feed structured signal back into product, marketing, and strategy: You sit closest to the customer. Your input shapes what we build next

what makes you a great fit:

• You have 1-4+ years experience closing complex, high-value deals: you've sold high 5-figure or 6-figure contracts to c-suite economic buyers. Mid-market experience is fine if you've consistently been top of your team and have closed enterprise customers before

• You're an elite relationship builder: you know the difference between a contact and a champion, and you've won deals because of that distinction. Buyers trust you before they trust your product

• You're a hunter: you know how to manufacture pipeline without a warm inbound stream and you don't complain when it's hard

• You have executive presence: you can hold a room with a C-Suite from the first interaction. Your credibility is immediate and natural, not earned over multiple meetings

• You're obsessively prepared: you know more about the prospect's situation than they expect you to, every time

• You're low ego and high accountability: you're not above doing the grunt work. You're competitive with yourself first. You take feedback, you act on it, and you share credit when you win

• You speak business-level German and English

• You want to work on-site 5 days a week in Berlin

you may _ not _ be a good fit if:

• You wait for pipeline to be handed to you. Founding AE means you generate

• You need detailed instructions and shy away from taking responsibility

• You only show up for the "strategic" parts of the deal and skip the procurement/security-review grunt work

• You've never personally carried a quota or closed deals end-to-end

• You want to work remotely. We're an in-person team

• You think a Founding role looks like a 9-to-5 job

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.