Account Executive, EMEA

Job Title

In this role, you'll help build and scale Socket's EMEA business by owning the full sales cycle across mid-market and enterprise accounts. You'll partner closely with security, engineering, and executive stakeholders while helping shape our regional go-to-market strategy, sales process, and customer expansion efforts.

What You'll Do

• Meet and exceed revenue targets across mid-market and enterprise organizations throughout EMEA.
• Build and manage a healthy pipeline through a combination of inbound demand, outbound prospecting, partner relationships, and customer referrals.
• Own opportunities ranging from fast-moving commercial transactions to complex multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
• Create an unparalleled customer experience throughout the sales life cycle.
• Partner with Customer Success to drive customer expansion, strategic account growth, and long-term customer success.
• Partner with the EMEA leadership to establish repeatable processes, local market strategy, and best practices as we scale the region.
• Provide market feedback to Product, Marketing, and Leadership teams to influence roadmap and go-to-market decisions.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience selling B2B SaaS solutions.
• Experience selling to security leaders, engineering leaders, platform teams, or developer-focused organizations.
• Curiosity about software development, open source, cloud infrastructure, and modern security practices.
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
• Demonstrated success building pipeline in new or developing territories through a combination of outbound prospecting, partner engagement, and relationship-driven selling.
• Experience operating in an early-stage or high-growth environment where processes, messaging, and strategy are still evolving.
• Experience navigating a variety of deal sizes and sales motions, from transactional commercial opportunities to complex enterprise procurement processes.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to build meaningful relationships throughout the sales process.
• Strong written and verbal communication and experience communicating at every level including the C-Suite.
• The best candidates for Socket are talented, hard working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
• Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary bands
• Meaningful equity program
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
• Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites

At Socket, We

• Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
• Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
• Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
• Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
• Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
• Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.