Senior Account Executive, Growth France

Paris, France

About the role

ROLE SUMMARY

Temporal is shaping the future of application development by enabling organisations to build, scale, and run resilient applications. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Enterprise Account Executive to join our Growth team and drive revenue within some of the largest and most complex enterprise organisations within South EMEA.

In this role, you will own a small portfolio of named accounts, selling to highly technical personas such as software engineers, engineering leaders, architects, and executive stakeholders. As a strategic partner to our customers, you will lead a cross functional account team, uncover expansion opportunities across multiple business units, and drive long-term adoption of Temporal’s solutions. Your ability to balance executive presence with technical credibility, combined with a partner-oriented and resilient mindset, will enable you to thrive in long, complex sales cycles within a high-growth environment.

Come work with some of the brightest minds in the tech industry and help transform how modern applications are built. You will contribute to the growth of a category-defining company at the forefront of innovation.

 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own and manage the entire sales lifecycle within a defined set of named enterprise accounts, from strategic planning to expansion and renewal.

  • Develop and execute deep, multi-year account strategies to expand Temporal’s footprint across multiple divisions, teams, and buying centres.

  • Multi-thread across software engineers, architects, engineering leaders, and executive stakeholders to understand business and technical priorities.

  • Lead complex, value-based and ROI-driven sales motions that align Temporal’s capabilities to enterprise-wide initiatives.

  • Navigate sophisticated technical and organisational discussions, positioning Temporal as a long-term platform partner.

  • Build trusted advisor relationships at the executive and practitioner levels, driving adoption and long-term customer success.

  • Partner closely with customer success, solutions architecture, product, RevOps, and deal desk to deliver cohesive, win-win outcomes.

  • Drive enterprise expansion through solution selling, enablement, and adoption-led growth motions.

  • Adapt and execute on account strategies to meet the evolving needs of large, complex organisations.

  • Manage and accurately forecast your business in SDFC.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

  • Demonstrated expertise in enterprise software sales, typically gained through 10+ years of experience in similar roles.

  • Proven success owning and expanding named enterprise accounts with long sales cycles and high deal complexity.

  • Strong solution-selling background with the ability to articulate ROI and business value across multiple business units.

  • Deep technical and business acumen, with the ability to bridge conversations from software engineers to C-level executives.

  • Demonstrated success navigating political complexity and closing 7 figure, multi-year deals within large, matrixed enterprise organisations.

  • Experience leading enterprise-wide transformation or platform adoption initiatives.

  • Exceptional ability to multi-thread across executives, engineers, and diverse buying centres.

  • Grit, resilience, and comfort operating in long, high-stakes sales cycles.

  • Executive presence paired with approachability and credibility with technical audiences.

  • Strong partner mentality, collaborating cross-functionally on creative deal structures and expansion strategies.

  • Experience with developer tools, infrastructure platforms, or highly technical products.

  • Familiarity with consumption-based or adoption-driven sales models.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

About Temporal Technologies

Temporal Technologies develops and distributes an open-source, durable execution platform that helps engineers write and run reliable long-running workflows in software applications. Its technology preserves application state and automatically handles retries, error conditions, and complex logic so developers can focus on business requirements rather than infrastructure challenges. Temporal supports multiple programming languages and can be self-hosted or used via its managed service, enabling scalable orchestration of tasks in distributed systems. The platform is used to coordinate processes such as financial transactions, infrastructure workflows, and AI pipelines, and provides visibility into execution states to aid troubleshooting and maintenance.

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Job details

Location

Paris, France

Company

NameTemporal Technologies
IndustryApplication Software
Team Size4

Funding

Total raised

$650M

Last stage

Growth

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz
Tiger Global Management
Sequoia Capital
Index Ventures
GGIC

Founders

MF

Maxim Fateev

Co-Founder & CTO

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Samar Abbas

Samar Abbas

CEO and co-founder

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

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