About the Role
Partner with leading universities and institutions across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe to accelerate digital transformation, enhance teaching and learning, improve student outcomes, and foster creativity and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with senior university leaders.
- Develop and execute account strategies aligning institutional priorities with Adobe's vision.
- Drive growth within existing accounts and identify new opportunities.
- Position Adobe as a strategic partner in institutional transformation initiatives.
- Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles and facilitate executive-level discussions.
- Collaborate with Customer Success Managers, Solution Consultants, and other internal teams.
- Develop compelling business cases and value frameworks.
- Partner with sector bodies, strategic alliances, and ecosystem partners.
- Support thought leadership activities including conferences and forums.
Requirements
- Proven enterprise software sales experience with a track record of securing complex, multi-year strategic agreements.
- Demonstrated success engaging senior executive stakeholders and building consensus.
- Strong understanding of digital transformation, AI adoption, workforce readiness, teaching and learning innovation, or student experience initiatives.
- Proven ability to develop executive relationships and influence institutional strategy.
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with a history of achieving or exceeding revenue objectives.
- Excellent presentation, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent German and English language skills.
- Ability to travel across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe as required.
Skills
- Enterprise software sales
- Account strategy development
- Stakeholder management
- Business case development
- Value realization
- Thought leadership
- Digital transformation
- AI adoption
- Workforce readiness
- Teaching and learning innovation
- Student experience
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
Location
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Eastern Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Enterprise sales experience
- Senior executive engagement
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits programs
About the Company
- Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences.
- Adobe’s industry-leading offerings enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
- Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth.
- We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
- At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.
- At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
- Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
- At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world.
- You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.
- If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you.
- Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.
- There's more than meets the eye when it comes to Adobe.
Equal Opportunity
- Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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- We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
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