--- title: 'Mid Market Account Executive - French Speaking (f/m/d) at Contentful' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/mid-market-account-executive-french-speaking-f-m-d-contentful-london-england-s9py18z3yh0e' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Mid Market Account Executive - French Speaking (f/m/d) at Contentful - **Company:** Contentful - **Location:** London England, United Kingdom - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/contentful/jobs/8197036 ## Job description ## About The Opportunity As a Mid-Market Account Executive (f/m/d), you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by leading the end-to-end sales process with our top-tier clients. You’ll be instrumental in driving adoption and engagement, finding new revenue opportunities, and creating customer enablement initiatives within a few named accounts.  You’ll work closely with our partnership and customer success team to lead a consultative sales process by speaking to professional developers and business leaders in the French markets. This role will require you to be in our Central London office 2 or 3 times a week. What To Expect? - Self-generation of the pipeline through outbound motions in conjunction with marketing and BDR teams to help create new opportunities in regional accounts - Drive expansion opportunities with existing clients in the French territory. - Grow existing accounts by leveraging relationships and following our comprehensive “land and expand” sales model - Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals - Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams - Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams - Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and clients while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value-based selling approach - Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities - Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures, and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently - Work closely with customer success & marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented at the respective customer What Do You Need To Be Successful? - 3+ years of experience selling a technical platform working as a Sales Development Representative (SDR), Business Development Representative (BDR), and/or Account Executive - 1+ years of individual quota-carrying experience - 1+ years of growing and expanding existing customer accounts - Demonstrated expertise in closing $60-100k+ opportunities - Ability to drive your own pipeline generation with outbound capabilities Nice To Have: - - Experience working with Partner ecosystems to work with customers. - Understanding and experience working in product-led growth sales motions - Native French language skills More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: [https://www.salesforcebenefits.com](https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/). Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your Recruiter know. ## Equal Opportunity Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. [Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.](https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal) Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education. Please be aware of scammers who may fraudulently claim to be from Contentful. These types of fraud can occur through copycat websites, fake email addresses claiming to be from our company, or social media. We do not ask for your personal information, such as bank account numbers, identification numbers, etc., through social media or chat-based apps, nor do we request or send money to purchase business equipment. If you suspect fraud, please report it to your local authorities and contact us at security-esk@contentful.com with any information you may have. By clicking “Apply for this job,” I acknowledge that I have read the “[Contentful’s Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.contentful.com/legal/us/privacy-notice-to-candidates/privacy/)” and hereby consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of my personal information as described therein. ## About Contentful ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Contentful is the leading intelligent composable content platform that helps enterprises orchestrate, manage, and deliver personalized digital experiences at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series F, valuation over $3 billion) - **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (with major hubs in Denver, San Francisco, New York, London, Sydney, and Dublin) - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Sascha Konietzke and Paolo Negri ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Content management / Digital Experience Platform (DXP) / Headless CMS - **Target customers**: B2B, primarily enterprise and mid-market (serves over 4,200 organizations, including 30% of the Fortune 500) - **Mission statement**: "Transforming the world with every experience" ## Products & Services - **Contentful Platform**: Composable content platform enabling teams to create, manage, and deliver content across channels via APIs. - **Contentful Studio**: No-code visual editor for marketers to build and personalize experiences without developer help. - **Contentful Marketplace**: Ecosystem of 38,000+ apps and integrations for extending platform capabilities. - **Native AI Capabilities**: AI-driven content creation, personalization, audience insights, and experimentation tools. - **DXP (Digital Experience Platform)**: Full suite combining composability, AI, and analytics for omnichannel experiences. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Over $3 billion (Series F, led by Tiger Global, $175 million raised) - **Key Metric**: 180+ billion API calls served per month; 550,000+ developers on the platform - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Tiger Global (lead Series F), plus a broad partner ecosystem including major technology and system integrators. - **Growth Signals**: Named to Forbes Cloud 100 for four consecutive years; recognized as Built In Best Places to Work 2024; expanded from 4,000 to 4,200+ customers; growing global headcount with new hubs in Sydney and Dublin. ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover in headless CMS**: Pioneered the category and built the most mature composable platform. - **Extensibility & integrations**: 38,000+ integrations and a thriving developer community (550K+ developers). - **Enterprise reliability**: 99.99% uptime SLA, serving 30% of the Fortune 500. - **AI-native approach**: Built-in AI for on-brand content generation, personalization, and experimentation. - **Global scale**: 700+ employees across 70+ nationalities, supporting customers in 100+ countries. ## Strategic Focus - Deepening AI capabilities to automate content creation and personalization. - Expanding the composable platform to cover the full digital experience lifecycle. - Growing global presence with new hubs (e.g., Sydney, Dublin) and scaling go-to-market teams. - Strengthening the partner ecosystem and marketplace to drive adoption. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: "Be bold", "Win together", "Relentless customer focus" – a collaborative, globally distributed team that values innovation and inclusivity. - **Flexible work**: Remote, hybrid, and hub options designed to fit different lifestyles; global team connected across time zones. - **Benefits**: Competitive pay with equity, annual learning budgets, generous paid time off (including company breaks), mental health resources, wellness programs, and retirement/pension plans. - **Community**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), pro bono program supporting 250+ nonprofits, and 2,000+ volunteer hours annually. - **Engineering culture**: Modern technical challenges, hands-on work with cutting-edge tech (AI, APIs, cloud infrastructure), and opportunities for growth through mentorship and learning. - **Recognition**: Built In Best Places to Work 2024, Forbes Cloud 100 (4 years running). ## Sources 1. [contentful.com/about-us](https://www.contentful.com/about-us/) 2. [contentful.com/careers](https://www.contentful.com/careers/) 3. [contentful.com](https://www.contentful.com/) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/contentful](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/contentful) 5. 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