Account Executive

Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 160+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 7 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups.

We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential.

Wingtra’s world-class sales team is looking to capitalise on a momentum that comes with being the World’s fastest growing fixed-wing drone manufacturer in the surveying and mapping market. We are looking for a motivated and hungry Account Executive in Southern Europe to expand our footprint in the local market in close collaboration with the Regional Sales Manager in Southern Europe.

**Responsibilities**:

- As an Account Executive, you will work closely with our partners to grow Wingtra’s market share across the region
- You will empower our partners by prospecting, supporting them to generate B2B sales leads, do product demonstrations
- Along with the Regional Sales team, you will develop sales strategies to expand Wingtra’s footprint in the market
- Being a strong promoter of our product and brand in our target markets
- Organize and travel to demonstrations, customer meetups and tradeshows
- Learn about customer use cases and market opportunities and post-process customer learnings for Wingtra’s strategy development
- Create and maintain customer data in CRM tools (Hubspot)

**Requirements**:

- Proven experience (1-3 years) in B2B sales management or equivalent business development experience
- You are passionate, competitive, curious by nature and open to continuously growing your skillset
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- The ability to demonstrate a strong aptitude for both selling and building lasting relationships with distribution partners
- Comfortable driving both large enterprise opportunities with long sales cycles
- Strong business acumen and comfort with establishing relationships with senior-level executives in enterprise-level companies
- Fast learner and well structured
- Persuasive, independent, at ease negotiating and developing trust
- Willingness to travel frequently (up to 50%)
- Knowledge of a second regional language
- Tech savviness working with Hubspot or other CRM and communication tools

**Bonus if you have**:

- Experience in geospatial technologies, remote sensing, and/or drone industries
- Existing network in the surveying, mining, waste management, engineering, earthworks or construction industries

At Wingtra, everyone is passionate about making it super easy to digitise the World with drones. We bring value first through solving hard problems and delivering on promises. We develop relationships with partners based on respect, trust and shared success. We offer a growth centric environment within a diverse, supportive, flexible and remote-friendly workplace.

If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in a feedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured and progressive start-up environment, we would love to hear from you.