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Director, Enterprise Sales

🏢 Yext · 📍 Paris, France
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. Built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses, Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery – across AI and traditional search. Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces, so partners and developers can build purpose-built experiences on the same infrastructure powering Yext's own products. Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to manage, measure, and optimize visibility at scale. For more information, visit yext.com.

As a Director, Enterprise Sales, you are responsible for growing our client base with a focus on Financial Services. You are committed to winning and taking advantage of the untapped customer base that could benefit from Yext’s product offering. Individuals should have a proven track record of consultative sales; the ability to negotiate complex six and seven figure contracts; a strong understanding of the digital landscape and a willingness to embrace innovative, fast paced technology companies. If this is you, we offer best in class compensation with uncapped commissions!

What You’ll Do

  • Build, lead and grow your own book of business, selling to our top accounts and working with FSI Customers. 
  • Drive significant growth in the market for both existing and new clients, achieving or exceeding individual quota
  • Focus on implementing transactions in an assigned territory and prospect for new opportunities
  • Manage complete and complex sales-cycles presenting to C-level executives the value of our product
  • Define, implement, and own an engagement plan for key prospects
  • Develop and manage positive relationships within our Enterprise market segment, looking for opportunities to make valuable contributions for the customer and develop additional revenue
  • Territory/Vertical identification and research, to formalise a go to market strategy and build qualified target accounts
  • Forecast sales activity and revenue achievement, while creating satisfied and referenceable customers

What You Have

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Yext Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Search technology depth, knowledge graph architecture, and enterprise SaaS scalability across global digital footprints.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Shallow understanding of modern search, indexing, or semantic graph relationships.
  • 2. Poor cross-functional alignment between engineering, product, and enterprise go-to-market teams.
  • 3. Inability to handle massive scale or multi-region data consistency challenges.
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I scale enterprise search and knowledge graph systems that turn fragmented data into precise, authoritative digital answers.

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