Hi

Do you have what it takes to launch Shakers in Italy as an Account Executive?

About Shakers

Shakers is building the home of AI builders. We connect top independent talent with leading companies, and we're creating a high-performance team that uses AI to work smarter, move faster, and build better. Our mission is to reshape how work happens through ambition, ownership, and technology.

The momentum you'd be joining:

- 300% growth, year after year: sustained, not a one-off.

- Expanding across Europe from Madrid: we're opening up Italy, Portugal, the UK and France, all driven from our Madrid HQ.

- A culture people rave about: recognized in the Top 100 Culture Awards.

- Backed to scale: €14M Series A led by Partech and K Fund in April 2025.

1. The Italian Account Executive team

Our purpose is to identify the companies in Italy that can scale by cutting costs and boosting productivity with the best tech builders, and to match them with freelance talent through our platform.

As an Account Executive you own the full cycle in your market, from first contact to signature. You build your own pipeline, run consultative deals with multiple stakeholders up to C-level, close, and grow every account you win, building something from scratch in a market with huge potential. You'll be based at our Headquarters in downtown Madrid.

We move fast, we own our numbers, and we're here to win.

TOP PERFORMERS

The best salespeople want to earn big, and at Shakers they do. Comp is uncapped and tied to what you bring in: a solid fixed salary, a quarterly bonus and uncapped commissions on top.





If you back yourself to be one of the best, this is your place.

2. What You'll Achieve:

- Own and grow your portfolio: you build, manage and grow a portfolio of Italian clients, increasing conversion and repeat rates by making the Shakers model the obvious choice for your accounts.

- Win deals through insight: you uncover each client's real pains and turn them into signed deals, showing why working with top freelancers through Shakers pays off.

- Manage complex, multi-stakeholder sales: you align decision-makers up to C-level (CTO, CIO, HR) and keep deals moving to close.

- Turn accounts into new business: you run account-based actions that generate successful projects and build strong client relationships that open new opportunities.

- Run your book like a business: you own your weekly reporting and hit the key objectives you set, using metrics to double down on what works.

- Stay ahead of your numbers: you deliver accurate weekly and monthly forecasts and drive the account plans and strategic prospecting that keep your pipeline full.

- Deliver with the team: you work closely with Talent and Ops to make sure freelance teams land successfully in your accounts.

3.



Is it what you are looking for?

You're a great fit if you...

- Have 4-10 years in B2B sales, closing full-cycle in tech consulting, high-AOV tech products, or startups/scaleups.

- Are fluent in Italian (native or bilingual), and fluent in English and Spanish.

- Understand Italian business culture and have experience selling to SMBs, mid-market companies and large corporates in Italy.

- Hunt and farm: you build pipeline from scratch and grow the accounts you win.

- Have carried a quota and hit it, closing real deals.

- Have tech fluency: previous experience in tech (or solid knowledge of it), enough to hold your own with CTOs and technical buyers and sell with real credibility. An engineering or technical background is a strong plus.

- Sell to C-level: you build trust with senior decision-makers and navigate multi-stakeholder deals.

- Run on data: you manage your pipeline in a CRM and forecast accurately.

- Take full ownership: high agency is a must here. Proactive, persuasive and creative, you treat every account as a new challenge and make things happen.

- Already work with AI and want to go deeper.

- Know and enjoy the startup ecosystem and are excited about building something from scratch.

- Nice to have: an existing C-level network in Italy.

4. A note on AI

AI is non-negotiable at Shakers. It's part of how we sell, research and win every day, not a buzzword. Every Shaker has access to Claude, plus the context and training to get real value from

📌 Account Executive (Madrid)
🏢 shakersworks.com
📍 Madrid