Strategic Account Executive - Sweden - Retail
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What the team is looking for.
ElevenLabs is seeking a Senior Strategic Account Executive to drive growth across Sweden's largest enterprises, with a focus on Retail. The ideal candidate has a well-established network and a proven track record of selling to C-level and senior decision-makers at major Swedish retail and consumer brands.
In this role, you will:
- Build and manage a growing portfolio of strategic accounts across Sweden, primarily in Retail and consumer brands.
- Identify new business opportunities where ElevenLabs' conversational AI capabilities can drive customer engagement, contact center automation, and operational efficiency for retail organizations.
- Lead consultative, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, building compelling business cases that translate AI voice technology into measurable business value for senior executives and economic buyers.
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the conversational AI landscape, including customer use cases, competitive solutions, and emerging trends, particularly in Swedish retail and consumer brand organizations.
- Demonstrate expertise, or a strong willingness to learn, about conversational AI and how ElevenLabs' voice technology can unlock value across customer support, virtual agents, IVR modernization, and in-app assistants.
- Develop and execute account strategies to expand ElevenLabs' presence within the Swedish retail sector, navigating complex procurement and organizational structures.
- Partner closely with Customer Success, FDEs, and Solutions Engineering to ensure smooth onboarding, deployment, and expansion of accounts.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, educating C-suite and senior operations leaders on emerging trends in generative AI, voice interfaces, and conversational agents.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of quota-carrying strategic sales experience in SaaS or technology, ideally with exposure to AI, generative AI, LLM-based products, or API-driven platforms.
- Proven success closing deals and managing long, complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders across business, IT, legal, and procurement.
- Well-connected in the Swedish retail landscape, with an existing network of senior individuals and strong executive presence and ability to build relationships at the C-suite and board level.
- Experience selling technical solutions to product and engineering leaders; ability to translate complex technology into business value.
- Deep understanding of enterprise procurement and legal processes in Sweden, with the ability to accelerate deal velocity within complex organizational structures.
- Comfort operating in an early-stage, high-growth environment, including building new playbooks and iterating quickly.
- Passion for voice and audio AI and how it can unlock transformative value for customers.
- A hybrid of customer and product-driven mentality that prioritizes client satisfaction and scale.
- Native or full professional proficiency in Swedish; strong English for internal collaboration.
What we offer:
- Innovative culture
- Growth paths
- Learning & development
- Social travel
- Annual company offsite
- Co-working
- strategic sales
- conversational AI
- SaaS
- technical sales
- account management
- AI
- generative AI
- LLM-based products
- API-driven platforms
- Swedish language skills
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