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# Senior Account Manager (French-speaking) at Lokalise

- **Company:** Lokalise
- **Location:** Latvia / Spain / United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://lokalise.com/job?gh_jid=6099545003

## Job description

Who are we

At Lokalise, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets. Our AI-powered localization platform helps companies manage both software and marketing content from a single, unified environment — ensuring every team speaks with one voice across every language and channel.

By automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools, and centralizing translation memory and terminology, Lokalise enables product, engineering, and marketing teams to collaborate without friction and launch globally up to 10× faster and at 80% lower cost.

Trusted by thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries, Lokalise empowers millions of people worldwide to use digital services in their native languages. Backed by a customer-loved support team, our platform fits seamlessly into your design, development, and content workflows, helping you scale with consistency and control.

Location

While our company operates exclusively on a remote basis, you must reside and have the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, or Spain.

This is a full-time, remote position. Please note that we do not engage on a B2B or contractor basis. We do not partner with search firms.

## About the Team

We are looking for a Senior Account Manager to join our EMEA team, which focuses on strengthening relationships with existing customers and driving sustainable revenue growth through retention, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.

In this role, you will own the commercial outcomes and full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts. This includes protecting customer retention, supporting successful renewals, identifying expansion opportunities, and ensuring customers continue to realise value from Lokalise over time.

You will manage a portfolio of strategic customers, with a particular focus on French-speaking stakeholders and organisations. You will act as a trusted commercial partner, helping customers connect Lokalise’s capabilities to their business objectives, localisation workflows, and international growth plans.

You will report to the Director of Sales EMEA and work closely with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Product, Finance, and Legal. You will be measured primarily on account expansion through upselling, cross-selling, and broader customer adoption and gross revenue retention across your portfolio .

## What You Will Do

- Own account commercial outcomes: Take responsibility for the full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.
- Protect retention and renewal outcomes: Monitor account health, customer engagement, product value, and commercial risks to identify potential retention challenges early and coordinate effective action with internal teams.
- Drive account expansion: Identify and execute upsell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities, leading commercial conversations and negotiations with a focus on achieving and surpassing sales quotas.
- Develop account strategies: Create and maintain clear account plans based on customer goals, stakeholder priorities, product adoption, business risks, renewal plans, and opportunities for broader collaboration.
- Lead consultative customer conversations: Advise customers on how to improve their localisation and content workflows, connect their needs to Lokalise’s solutions, and articulate clear business value and return on investment.
- Navigate complex enterprise sales processes: Coordinate multi-stakeholder opportunities, procurement activity, contract negotiations, and legal discussions, ensuring progress toward successful commercial outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally and maintain accurate reporting: Work closely with Customer Success and Solutions Architecture to support retention and expansion, collaborate with Product, Finance, and Legal to resolve customer needs, and maintain accurate CRM records, account plans, pipeline updates, and forecasts.
- Use AI to elevate your work: Proactively explore and apply AI tools and approaches to improve customer research, account planning, decision-making, productivity, and go-to-market impact.

## What You Must Have

- Full account lifecycle ownership: +5 years of experience owning the commercial lifecycle of strategic or enterprise customer accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling in a quota-based B2B SaaS environment.
- Proven commercial outcomes: A track record of protecting customer revenue, achieving gross revenue retention or comparable retention targets, and generating measurable account expansion.
- Professional fluency in French, including the ability to lead customer conversations, presentations, and commercial negotiations in French.
- Ability to understand complex SaaS products, with experience selling to business, marketing, and sales stakeholders, and translating product capabilities into clear commercial value.
- Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to collaborate effectively across a remote, international organisation.
- Experience engaging and influencing C-level and senior stakeholders, including the ability to lead strategic conversations and align solutions with business priorities.
- Strong commercial skills, including experience identifying growth opportunities, negotiating contracts, and navigating complex procurement or legal discussions.
- Competency using AI tools to accelerate customer research, synthesis, account planning, and decision-making, with a proactive mindset toward adopting new AI-enabled ways of working.

It’s a Plus If You Have

- Experience managing or selling to enterprise customers in the French market, regardless of where you are based.
- Experience engaging technical stakeholders (e.g., IT, engineering, product) in addition to business buyers.
- Experience selling localisation, translation management, or other workflow software.
- Experience working with procurement processes such as RFPs, security reviews, or complex enterprise buying committees.
- Familiarity with structured sales methodologies or account planning frameworks.

Our Benefits

💰 Competitive salary and employee stock options.

🌍 Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.

🏢 Co-working budget for those days you want a change from your home office.

🌴 Flexible vacation policy to recharge when you need to.

🖥️ Home office setup budget: monitor, desk, ergonomics, whatever helps you do your best work.

📚 Learning & development budget to grow your skills and career.

🏥 Health insurance to keep you covered.

🧘 Wellness allowance to support your mental and physical well-being.

🤝 Great startup culture: remote but close-knit, with regular retreats and social events to stay connected. We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.

## About Lokalise

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lokalise is an AI-powered localization platform that helps businesses continuously adapt and deploy content for every market, language, and culture.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Tallinn, Estonia (based in the Baltic region)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Nick Ustinov and Petr Antropov

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Localization / Translation Management / AI-powered Content Adaptation
- **Target customers**: B2B, with a focus on enterprise and scale-up teams (Fortune 500 companies, startups, and 3,000+ global customers)
- **Mission**: “Create a world of borderless business” – making it simple for teams to adapt content for every market, language, persona, or culture.

## Products & Services
- **Lokalise Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based localization platform that combines AI translation, automated workflows, 60+ integrations, OTA updates for mobile apps, and enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017). Features include AI orchestration across multiple LLMs, high-precision context with Custom AI Profiles, automated quality control with AI scoring, and role-based access control.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metrics**: Trusted by 1 million users across 3,000+ companies (including Fortune 500); 200+ teammates; 99.9% uptime; up to 90% cost savings reported; 95% AI translation accuracy.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid adoption among global enterprises; continuous AI model orchestration; expansion of integrations and security certifications; fully remote team with 50% multilingual members.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI orchestration across models** – dynamically selects the best-fit LLM per language/content without repeated configuration.
- **High-precision context** – preserves meaning with Custom AI Profiles, surrounding context, and metadata.
- **Automated quality control** – AI evaluates translation quality automatically; only low-confidence results require human review.
- **60+ pre-built integrations** with common development and content tools, plus MCP connectivity.
- **Enterprise security** – SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27017, HIPAA-aligned, GDPR compliant, SAML SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and annual penetration testing.
- **99.9% uptime** with multi-zone high-availability infrastructure on AWS (EU-hosted).

## Strategic Focus
- Continuously improving AI translation accuracy and brand consistency (on-brand AI translation).
- Expanding automation through MCP connectivity and workflow orchestration.
- Deepening enterprise integrations and security compliance to serve larger global customers.
- Maintaining a fully remote, borderless team culture to support global expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fully remote, international team with 200+ teammates across the globe; 50% of team members are multilingual.
- **Work policy**: Fully remote with flexible schedule; yearly team and company offsites; coworking allowance.
- **Benefits**: Stock ownership for every teammate, comprehensive medical insurance, wellness benefit (monthly allowance), generous parental leave, home office setup budget (laptop, desk, chair, headphones), professional development budget, and flexible vacation days.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on autonomy, continuous learning, and modern tools; typical hiring process takes 2–3 weeks with a case study stage.

## Sources
1. [Lokalise Website](https://lokalise.com/)
2. [Lokalise About Page](https://lokalise.com/about/)
3. [Lokalise Careers Page](https://lokalise.com/careers/)
4. [Lokalise LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lokalise)
5. [Lokalise Job Openings](https://lokalise.com/job/)

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- [Senior People Partner - Fixed term leave cover](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-people-partner-fixed-term-leave-cover-lokalise-europe-ymepq7nedw9q) — Europe