Strategic Account Executive

About GleanGlean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.About RoleAs a Strategic Account Executive at Glean, you will drive new business and growth within our largest enterprise prospects by developing tailored strategies to break into and expand major accounts. This role demands sophisticated account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building to deliver on customer pain points and priority business outcomes. You will have the opportunity to build a territory in the EMEA region and play a key role in shaping Glean’s presence among industry-leading organizations and advancing our mission to transform work with AI.You WillSource and close net new logos within a given territory in your book of businessHave the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and identify executive sponsors and championsResearch and understand the business objectives of your customers and have the ability to perform a value drive sales cycleCollaborate with internal partners to move deals forward and ensure customer successYou will consistently deliver ARR revenue targets and drive success through a metric-based approachDevelop and execute sales strategies and tactics to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookingsProvide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functionsCreate ROI and business justification reports based on a data driven approachRun tight POCs based on business success criteriaAbout You10+ years of closing experience with direct field sales experience selling enterprise cloud software to the largest companies in Germany.Large Enterprise to Majors segment selling experience is a MUSTAbility to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product and have the ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environmentHave clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizationsEffectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities and building out a new territoryPrevious experience building relationships and selling face-to-face to C level executivesKnowledge of the best of best-of-breed software and a technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analyticsExperience selling technical SaaS and cloud-based software solutionsBasic understanding of search infrastructure is a plusYou have previous experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & EngineersThis is a remote position, you will be based out of DACH region and know the market, including its cultural nuances and business practices.Location: Germany (The role is remote)We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organisation. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.