Account Executive, Strategic Netherlands
OneTrust
Sales & Business Development
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Mar 6, 2026
Strength in Trust
OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.The Challenge
We are looking for an Account Executive, Strategic in the Netherlands. Account Executives have a critical role and responsibility to deliver new client acquisition in zero-base accounts, while also ensuring successful relationships and revenue growth with existing customers.OneTrust is a SaaS enterprise platform with a strong growth trajectory. We invest heavily in our Sales Team through demand generation, methodology-driven sales philosophy, sales trainings, customer-driven roadmaps, and a readily-available executive team to help close deals. This is a high TCV opportunity!Your Mission
The Account Executive (AE) is responsible for consistently generating, qualifying, and executing opportunities that support our customers in the pursuit of becoming more trusted organizations and drive revenue for OneTrust. AEs are expected to use their thorough knowledge of the industry and excellent value-based sales skills to create the best solutions and solve complex customer problems. AEs must bring useful insights and best practices to customers and prospects.As anAccountExecutive, Strategic, you will:- Meet or exceed quota
- Conduct outreach to generate pipeline consistently even when engaged in closing activities
- Demonstrate resourcefulness to identify &leveragestakeholders, leaders, and champions to drive execution of the sales strategy appropriately
- Work effectively in a cross-functional manner with Business Development, Partner Channel, and Solutions Engineering to successfully land and expand key accounts
- Utilize two-sided discovery & impeccable communication to understand the customers’ needs and articulate valuable solutions
- Understand key competitors and their strategies to clearly differentiateOneTrust’ssolutions in the marketplace
- Establish customer relationships that enableOneTrustto be viewed as a trusted advisor
- Manage andoptimizea targeted geographic territory
You Are
You are someone with a hunting mentality and consultative approach. You bring curiosity, innovation, authenticity, leadership, and integrity to your work. You have experience communicating with C-Level Executives effectively, and you are confident in your communication skills. You approach new prospecting activities and deal-advancing activities with the utmost balance, and you are well-disciplined in sales processes and CRM hygiene.Your experience includes:
- Strong experience selling B2B Enterprise-level software or related technologies, ideally10-12+ years, but exceptions may be made for the right candidate
- Previousexperience in Value Selling
- Strongtrack recordof performance with landing net new logos while growing and supporting existing key accounts
- Previousexperience running sales presentation/demos
- Familiarity with Salesforce.com or similar CRM solution
- Fluent in English and Dutch