Associate Account Executive - German Speaker (Hybrid, Amsterdam)

Job Description

FreshBooks is a leading cloud-based SaaS accounting software designed with one goal: to Help Small Business Owners Grow. Are you also passionate about this mission? Then this opportunity is for you.

The Opportunity - Associate Account Executive - German Speaker

We’ve just started building the European Sales Team. An Associate Account Executive - German Speaker is responsible for closing new business deals over the phone with Small and Medium-sized businesses in different countries and verticals. Our working language is English. You’ll “own” clients for a short period after they become paying clients. Your main focus is closing the initial deal.

The 25+ person Sales team in Europe is spread out across the UK, Netherlands and Croatia. We’re proud to have 12 nationalities and a healthy gender balance. Our Sales colleagues in North America have a team of 100+ persons.

What you'll do as an Associate Account Executive - German Speaker:

• Run deep discovery calls in order to find challenges in prospects’ financial processes
• Recommend a solution and win opportunities to overachieve your monthly quotas
• Manage your pipeline
• Most of your leads pipeline will come from inbound leads (trialers, form fills, BDR meetings etc.)
• Prospect for net new leads
• Assist BDRs where needed

What you'll bring to the role:

• 1 year of B2B sales experience, during which you exceeded your quotas.
• Some of our Associate Account Executives were BDRs in their last role
• Successful experience with uncovering prospects’ business challenges
• Experience working with SMB clients / high-velocity sales
• Flexibility to adjust to shifting priorities
• Experience using a CRM such as Salesforce.com

You'll stand out if you bring experience in:

• Sales training: ex. SPIN, MEDDIC, Winning by Design, Predictable Revenue, etc.
• Experience with SalesLoft or similar (Outreach)
• Speak & write more than 1 Western European language business fluently

Our Commitments to You

At FreshBooks you will grow and be challenged in rewarding ways, largely because you’ll be trusted to make the best decisions for your role. We believe in bringing on the best people, providing them with support and learning opportunities, and then trusting them to solve tough problems.

If you want to accelerate your career, work on projects you're passionate about, and be part of a collaborative team - we could be just what you're looking for.

Here are some of the ways FreshBooks recognizes and rewards our employees:

• 🩺 Comprehensive Compensation and Wellness Benefits. Including Pension Plan matched to your local office, stock options for every full time employee, generous time off, annual healthy living credit, and more.
• 📚 Perks that Matter. Including a Peer Recognition Program, an Employee Assistance Program, headphone credit, meaningful in-person gatherings to bring onsite and remote employees together, and more perks matched to your locale.
• 🌱 Working Environments to Help You Thrive. Beautiful office spaces welcome you in Germany, Croatia, and Netherlands, and remote FreshBookers receive a home office credit to set up your home office.
• 🤗 Supportive Peer Group, Mentors, and Leaders . We care about each other across the organisation and have programs to support this so everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and believes in collective impact.
• 🚀 Accelerated growth. 3 week dedicated company onboarding, career development through continuous coaching, training, and learning on the job, and a bi-annual review process.

How FreshBooks Hires

We strive for a welcoming, inclusive experience that allows candidates to showcase what makes them great. We also know that this is your chance to interview us , to get to know the FreshBooks culture firsthand, and encourage you to ask us pretty much anything during your process:

1. Recruiter Conversation : A shorter meeting with a member of our talent acquisition team to learn more about you and tell you more about FreshBooks and the role, too.
2. Hiring Manager Conversation: A conversation with the Hiring Manager to better understand your skills and experience, and how they align with the role.
3. Team Assessment(s)/Conversation(s): One to two conversations with team members to understand your craft mastery and your approach to collaborating with a team.
4. Executive Conversation: We might invite you for a short conversation with a member of the senior leadership team to learn more about how you want to grow in the coming years, and how those goals align with FreshBooks’ long-term vision.

Excited? Consider applying now, even if your experience doesn't meet every bullet on the above lists. We'd love to learn more about you and why you think FreshBooks is the next step in your career.

About FreshBooks

FreshBooks reached unicorn status after raising our valuation to more than $1 billion, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Every success at FreshBooks allows us to build better products, services, and communities, worthy of the trust of small business owners everywhere. We’re now based in seven countries and counting, serving business owners, their clients, and accountants in more than 160 countries worldwide. What’s more, FreshBooks knows that great people live all over the globe (not just where we have offices), and that different folks thrive in different working environments. Remote, onsite, and everything in between, you’ll find it with us.

FreshBooks is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, religion, race, mental disability, sexual orientation, age, or any other status. All applicants are considered based on their qualifications and merits. At FreshBooks, we inspire an environment of mutual respect and we believe diversity and inclusion are crucial to our success.

FreshBooks will meet your accessibility needs during the recruitment process. Should you require any specific accommodations or documents regarding accessibility in different formats, or if you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at [email protected].