Scale AE at Temporal - €220K OTE Cloud Sales Career in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This Scale Account Executive role at Temporal represents a compelling opportunity for sales professionals looking to break into the developer tools and cloud infrastructure space — one of the fastest-growing segments in enterprise software.
Compensation: A €220K OTE is strong for a Scale AE role in EMEA, where mid-market/scale AE positions typically range from €120K–€180K OTE. The uplift likely reflects Temporal's well-funded, high-growth status (Series B, backed by top-tier VCs) and the technical complexity of the sales motion. Equity participation adds meaningful upside if Temporal continues its trajectory toward IPO.
Skills you'll develop:
- Technical sales fluency in workflow orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and developer platforms — highly transferable to roles at AWS, Databricks, HashiCorp, or similar.
- Full-cycle account ownership and expansion selling in a PLG (product-led growth) model.
- Process-building in an early-stage, entrepreneurial sales environment.
Green flags: Remote-first culture, equity participation, strong L&D budget, and a genuinely technical product backed by an active open-source community signal a company that invests in its people. The role has clear ownership and autonomy.
Watch for: This is a "Scale" AE role, meaning you'll manage a broad book of business rather than deep enterprise accounts — excellent for reps who like velocity and variety, but less suited to those pursuing large, multi-year enterprise deals exclusively. The entrepreneurial mindset requirement signals the sales playbook is still maturing.
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us — they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
Our fast-moving and highly successful Strategic Sales team is growing, and we are seeking the next Account Executive in Paris, France to join our team! Temporal is a remote-first company; however, this role is focused on EMEA to better support our customers and collaborate more effectively with regional teammates.
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Scale Account Executive to join the growing Temporal team. This role will become a main point of contact for Temporal customers by leveraging your technical, sales, and account management skills to help grow usage and discover new use cases across your book of business.
What You'll Do
- Activate and implement new logo accounts and get them up and running on the platform
- Identify activation and expansion opportunities within your customer base
- Be responsible for the success of a broad book of business
- Create and grow relationships with our champions
- Drive consistent activity, pipeline development and quota attainment
- Partner with product marketing to deliver proper messaging and content to Temporal Cloud customers
- Design and execute programs to support the identification, design and productionisation of new use cases with your customers
- Identify ICP accounts and pursue the right opportunities in the right accounts to drive ARR growth
- Work closely with our Start Up Program team and Self Sign Up team to ensure success for the right new logo prospects
What You'll Bring
- A passion for technology and the ambition to dive head-first into new challenges
- 3+ years of experience working in Sales, Customer Success, Account Management, or Sales/Business Development
- A background and passion for advocating on behalf of your customers
- A mind for technology — we'll teach you about Temporal and databases, but our customers and product are inherently technical and you should have an aptitude and curiosity to learn about those concepts
- The ability to act with a high level of autonomy; you will be expected to take full ownership of your customer portfolio and make key decisions to drive effective customer outcomes
- An entrepreneurial mindset — this is a new role at Temporal where you will be required to both deviate from established procedure and often build entirely new processes or practices to ensure we best serve this customer segment
- Team player with a passion for collaboration
- Prior experience with tooling like Salesforce, Slack, Outreach, Gong, CommonRoom
- Prior exposure to database, cloud, and infrastructure technology is a plus
Compensation
- The OTE range for this role is expected to be around €220,000 based on location and experience.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees; part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
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