Account Executive, Public Sector, DACH

About Mistral Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute.

We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

Role Summary: As our Enterprise Sales Executive, you will be instrumental in shaping Mistral’s adoption with our largest customers across the Public Sector.

You will be driving deals end2end: from prospective, first intro call until closing and beyond — together with our dedicated implementation specialist, tech and legal teams.

What you will do: Lead development (strategic outbound and qualified inbound): - Handle strategic outreach as well as warm introductions to promising enterprise customers - Converting inbound deals where upselling / more bespoke agreements can be achieved Value prop validation for customer: - Provide hands-on support and guidance to clients during a potential Proof of Concept (POC) phase, ensuring a smooth and successful evaluation process - Leverage successful POC outcomes to facilitate the conversion of POCs into long-term, revenue-generating contracts Deal management & closing: - Develop and execute strategic sales plans to convert leads into valued customers — you are the first point of contact for all external stakeholders and are responsible for properly managing deals and aligning all stakeholders (heavy involvement of customer engineering, product, and commercial teams, both on operational and C-level) - Handle customer negotiation end2end, together with our legal and imp