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# Velocity Account Executive - French Speaker at Prelude

- **Company:** Prelude
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Prelude/714d9f89-b704-4014-9aca-a301a1a93d38/application

**Skills:** SaaS Sales, Cold Calling, Cold Emailing, LinkedIn Prospecting, Outbound Sales, Pipeline Generation, SMB Sales, HubSpot

> The Account Executive will drive high-volume outbound sales by cold calling, emailing, and LinkedIn prospecting to build pipeline from scratch. This role involves owning the full sales cycle for SMB deals, conducting rapid discovery, and delivering tailored demos to secure quick closures.

## Job description

## About Prelude

Prelude is redefining how companies authenticate and onboard users - turning what's traditionally a cost center into a growth lever. Our flagship product lets businesses send OTP codes with the best price-to-conversion ratio on the market, dynamically selecting the most effective channel in real time (optimized SMS, WhatsApp, and more) while actively blocking spam and fraud that legacy providers miss. Founded in 2022 by former Zenly team members who lived the pain of broken SMS authentication firsthand, we're already serving fast-growing companies across Europe and are expanding into the US. But authentication is only the starting point - we're building the platform for trust at scale, with an ambitious roadmap of market-defining products ahead.

## Why join us

Today, we're a team of 60 and growing, based in Paris, building products that power secure and high-performance user onboarding for companies across the world. We believe small, highly skilled teams outperform large, fragmented organizations, and we are intentional about staying focused on impact, quality, and speed. We operate with a flat org structure and value in-person collaboration, which helps ideas move faster, decisions stay grounded, and teams take full ownership of what they build.

## Our values

- Care We care deeply about our customers, our teammates, and the quality and reliability of what we ship.
- Bias for Action We move fast, test in the real world, and iterate quickly rather than over-optimizing in theory.
- Ownership We take responsibility end to end, from identifying problems to delivering outcomes and learning from results.

This Account Executive role at Prelude is built for a high-energy, outbound-first seller who thrives prospecting and knows how to move fast. You'll be hunting and closing SMB deals at volume - owning the full cycle through to signed contract. If you love the grind of building pipeline from scratch, have a knack for quick discovery, and get a buzz from a fast close, this is the role for you. What will you be doing?

- Running a high-volume outbound motion - cold calling, cold emailing, and LinkedIn prospecting daily to build pipeline from the ground up, as well as working closely with our high performing BDRs
- Owning the full sales cycle end-to-end, through to closed-won, typically within a short sales cycle
- Quickly qualifying SMB prospects through sharp, conversational discovery to identify pain and move deals forward fast
- Delivering concise, punchy demos tailored to SMB buyers
- Hitting and exceeding monthly and quarterly targets for pipeline generation, activities, and closed revenue
- Keeping HubSpot clean and up to date for accurate forecasting

What are we looking for?

- Proven experience running a full outbound sales cycle, with a track record of closing high-volume SMB deals fast
- A cold calling native - you're comfortable picking up the phone 50+ times a day and know how to hook a prospect in the first 30 seconds
- SaaS sales experience is a must - you'll know what an API is and can hold your own in a conversation with a technical buyer
- Consistent quota attainment and overachievement - we want to see the numbers, not just the narrative
- Sharp, instinctive discovery skills - you can uncover pain quickly
- Natural curiosity and hunger to become a product expert, so every conversation is relevant and consultative
- Fluency in English and French
- Familiarity with HubSpot is a nice to have
- Genuine excitement for what Prelude is building

What do we offer?

- Competitive base salary with generous, uncapped commission + BSPCEs
- Hybrid working style: 4 days in-office in Paris, 1 day remote
- High-end gear and ergonomic setup
- 100% travel subsidised to our Paris office
- Private health insurance
- Swile meal vouchers
- Gym pass
- Annual offsites in great locations
- The opportunity to be part of building something big, from the start!

Interview process

- Meet a member of the Talent team
- Interview with Sales
- Roleplay session with Sales
- Final meeting with the CEO

We care more about your potential and motivation than your resume. If you're excited about the role and want to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

## About Prelude

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Prelude provides a unified trust and onboarding platform that uses device, network, and carrier signals to verify users and prevent fraud.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $20M raised in May 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Matias Berny

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Trust and safety, identity verification, fraud prevention, communication APIs
- Target customers: B2B – digital businesses (fintech, social, gaming, e‑commerce) that need to onboard legitimate users while stopping bots, fake accounts, and fraud
- Mission or purpose statement: "The trust layer between your signups and your business."

## Products & Services
- **Verify**: OTP verification across SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Voice, and Email – 230+ regions, 95% success rate
- **Watch**: Pre-KYC risk scoring that blocks fake signups before they cost you money
- **Intel API**: Carrier‑grade intelligence (SIM status, number reputation, connection quality) queried in real time
- **Auth**: Full authentication stack for signup, login, social, password, with persistent trust and session management
- **Notify**: Reliable transactional messaging on the same rails as Verify

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $27M ($20M Series A led by 20VC, plus prior rounds from Singular, Seedcamp, Deel, FDJ UNITED Ventures); annual revenue not disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 20VC (lead), Singular, Seedcamp, Deel, FDJ UNITED Ventures; customers include BeReal, Sunday, Suno, Voodoo
- **Growth Signals**: 6x revenue growth and 6x customer base expansion over the past year; expanding into Auth and Intel products; SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR certified

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that replaces multiple vendors (verify + auth + fraud) with one integration
- **Deep telco partnerships** provide direct carrier routes and network‑level signals not available from pure‑software competitors
- **99% fraud reduction** and **30% cost reduction** reported by customers
- **Device‑level fingerprinting** and **behavioral monitoring** that work even for AI agents and advanced bots

## Strategic Focus
- Deeper telco partnerships and expansion of Lookup API coverage across Europe and beyond
- Continued investment in machine learning models that convert raw signals into actionable trust scores
- Scaling engineering, telco partnerships, and customer success teams to support rapid growth

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work model** – most roles based in Paris, with some fully remote positions (e.g., Founding AE – USA)
- **Engineering culture** – building critical infrastructure for the AI age; teams work on device fingerprinting, real‑time scoring, Go backend, and full‑stack development
- **Open roles** include Backend Engineer (Go), Full‑Stack Engineer, Software Engineer – Internal Tools, Founding Device Fingerprinting Engineer, and sales/customer support positions
- **Salary transparency** – posted ranges: BDR €57K, Mid‑Market AE €150K, Enterprise AE €170K–€180K (Paris)
- **Impact** – product decisions affect millions of user onboarding flows for high‑growth companies

## Sources
1. [Prelude website](https://prelude.so/)
2. [Prelude Careers (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prelude)
3. [Prelude Series A Announcement](https://prelude.so/blog/serie-a-prelude)
4. [Built In – Prelude jobs](https://builtin.com/company/prelude-preludeso/jobs)

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