Founding Sales Lead
Zell
Seniority
Senior
Model
Remote
Sector
Salary
€50,000 – €65,000
Contract
Full-Time
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About the role
You are the first sales hire and you carry the number yourself. You prospect, run discovery, demo, close, and renew. Once you are winning, you hire a BDR under you and teach them how you did it. In eighteen months you are running the sales organization you built.
What you'll do
- Own outbound and inbound sales end to end
- Prospect, run discovery, demo, close, and renew
- Break current conversion rates and find plays that work against legacy mid-market buyers in Italy and Germany
- Hire and train your first BDR, turning your plays into something teachable
- Build the sales team while continuing to close deals yourself
- Own the revenue plan with leadership
What you'll need
- Closed B2B software yourself, full cycle
- Experience selling to non-technical mid-market buyers
- Fluent in Italian or German plus English
- Track record of closing deals into customers who care about hitting quota
What they offer
- Base salary €50–65K plus €37K variable uncapped with accelerators above quota
- Cofounder-level equity: 0.5–1% time-vested over four years with performance tranches tied to ARR milestones
- Opportunity to build and lead the sales organization you create

