Senior Account Executive South East Europe

Backbase is a fast-growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are growing our Sales team and offer opportunities for ambitious, strategic Sales Executives who thrive in a client-facing advisory role. Backbase is hiring for the Senior Account Executive South East Europe role.

Located in Amsterdam, our EMEA HQ offices are a stone’s throw away from the beautiful NEMO Science Museum, and the Amsterdam Central train station.

Backbase is growing its Sales team. This position offers you to work in a flexible, no-nonsense, informal and fast-paced working environment, enabling and empowering you to grow as a sales professional. In this position you will report directly to the Regional Vice President of Sales.

What you'll do

You will carry your own sales quota within the LATAM sales team and deliver digital banking transformation opportunities with net-new customers, adding to a growing list of active Backbase customers. Based on your quota you will set objectives and plan accordingly to achieve targets.

This is an ideal position if you have 10+ years of successful sales and closing experience, with focus on building relationships and creating opportunities with new customers. Your professional DNA is that of a highly influential advisor with a focus on enterprise SaaS software in Financial Services.

Finally, you build close relationships with your customers to understand their business drivers and understand how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new enterprise software sales opportunities with Banking and Financial Service customers and effectively run a sales cycle to reach and exceed your goals.

• This is a quota carrying role in which you will identify and close opportunities for Backbase business primarily with net-new customer accounts and secondary opportunity to expand existing customer relationships;
• Managing and closing large software agreements ($1M+ ARR);
• Forecasting and managing net-new opportunities from identification to close;
• Leading customers to have value-focused digital banking strategies;
• Establishing a trusted advisor role with banking and financial institution customers;
• Aggregating and collecting requirements from customers and craft the business case for investments in digital banking transformation;
• Supporting Backbase's goal of building digital banking leadership;
• Other activities as required to fulfill the business objectives.

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience;
• 8-10+ years experience in a quota carrying role;
• Track record of exceeding quota;
• 5+ years experience in digital banking;
• Ability to reverse engineer business objectives to reach your goals;
• Eagerness to figure out tough problems for your customers.

About Backbase

Backbase creates digital banking solutions, enabling our clients to deliver superior online and mobile customer experiences. We are a global, young-spirited, diverse (45+ nationalities), fast-growing and leading fintech company. Our 2,000+ employees work together on better and more advanced products. You will receive time to educate yourself and will work with some of the best specialists in the business.

Key benefits

You own what you ship

Real ownership means real responsibility. From day one, you set the pace, make the decisions, and see your work land where it matters. You drive the outcomes, you celebrate the wins.

The work is the standard

We built something that didn't exist before - an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks. We raise the bar because we've seen what's possible when you don't settle.

Ambition without ego

You'll work with people who've shipped things most thought couldn't be done. Direct, down-to-earth, no egos. The kind of team where the best idea wins and everyone's genuinely glad when it does.

Real AI, running in real banks

We're not waiting for AI to be ready. It already is - running inside banks, serving customers, solving problems that matter, out in the real world today.

Grow while you build

Annual learning budget, global exposure, and work that moves you forward. Your growth and our mission go hand in hand.

17 offices. One mission.

Hybrid model, no micromanagement, offices across the world. The mission is clear. Where you do your best work is up to you.

Wellness that goes the distance

Real support built for the long game. We invest in the people who build the product, not just the product.