Enterprise Account Executive, Benelux (Dutch Speaker)
About The Position
GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up with offices in Paris, New York City, and Boston. The company has secured significant investment from notable figures like the co-founder of GitHub and Docker, as well as top-tier VC firms, and recently completed its Series C funding in early 2026. GitGuardian specializes in helping enterprises prevent credential-based breaches by identifying secrets across code, systems, and AI, prioritizing remediation, and preventing future exposure. The platform is utilized by over 600,000 developers globally and is used by 50 of the Fortune 500 companies. This role focuses on developing the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg territories. The position can be based in either the Netherlands or the United Kingdom, with employment facilitated through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner. The successful candidate will join a European Sales team of 8 Account Executives, 4 Sales Engineers, and 2 Account Managers, reporting to the Sales Manager, Northern Europe. The team is international, technically proficient, and operates primarily in English.
Requirements
- Fluent in Dutch and English
- Autonomy as an Account Executive within a complex B2B sales cycle, over corporate or enterprise prospects (long cycles 6+ months, multiple stakeholders).
- Strong outbound skills in pipeline generation to build your business from scratch!
- Knowing how to size deals and assess the client’s needs with a strong methodology, knowing how to prioritize your prospects.
- Experience selling software to developers / security / devops engineers.
- You understand clearly what is the CI/CD and the software development lifecycle into a large company.
- Curiosity and willing to learn!
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of the DevSecOps or application security industry (being aware of different softwares and tools of the industry, their value proposition, ...)
Responsibilities
- Handling the whole sales cycle from prospecting (50% of your week) to building a strong relationship with companies’ various stakeholders in order to sign your deals (other 50%).
- Understanding and demonstrating our products to prospects.
- Adapting your speech to talk to high-level security professionals (CISOs, CTOs, VPs, …).
- Using modern sales tools to map, prospect, follow and close your accounts.
- Reaching and exceeding your sales quota, to have a strong impact on GitGuardian expansion in Europe!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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