Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Hybrid Employment

Cohere is hiring a Senior Account Executive - KSA

Responsibilities

  • Drive net-new customer acquisition through targeted outbound activity, executive engagement, and relationship building across KSA
  • Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise, public-sector, and sovereign prospects by understanding their goals and shaping AI solutions that deliver measurable value
  • Work closely with channel partners and major system integrators to scale outreach, accelerate adoption, and maximize customer success
  • Leverage senior-level relationships with executives and government decision-makers to drive strategic opportunities and long-term partnerships
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on strategic efforts to deliver enterprise and public-sector solutions
  • Partner with SDRs and Marketing to drive top-of-funnel activity and overall territory growth
  • Own the full sales cycle; including discovery, technical and business validation, proof-of-concept, procurement, and deal close within a team-selling environment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience, with a strong history of negotiating and closing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise or government deals in Saudi Arabia
  • A consistent track record of high performance and exceeding quota in high-growth or early-stage environments
  • Deep relationships with senior executives across KSA enterprises, ministries, telcos, banks and sovereign entities
  • Experience working with channel partners and regional integrators to drive sales cycles and shared revenue goals
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, you are both a strategist and a hands-on operator capable of building a market from the ground up
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders across fast-moving deals
  • Creativity and strong technical acumen to structure unique, mutually beneficial partnerships
  • Excellent communication skills, you listen deeply, understand what matters to senior decision-makers, and confidently present to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Arabic and English language proficiency.

Nice to Have

  • Experience selling complex enterprise technology solutions, developer platforms, private deployments, or AI/NLP products

Benefits

  • An open and inclusive culture and work environment
  • Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
  • Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Structure: team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more

Additional Information

  • Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.
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Cohere trains and deploys frontier AI models for developers and enterprises building systems for content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents.
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Posted 22 days ago