Senior Account Executive, Strategic Accounts

About Paligo

Paligo is a fast-growing, globally distributed SaaS company headquartered in Sweden, delivering a market-leading Component Content Management System (CCMS). Our platform enables organizations to standardize how technical documentation is created, managed, translated, and published across teams, products, and regions, unlocking scale, compliance, and AI-driven content workflows.

We work with mid-market and enterprise organizations worldwide, including Dell, Emerson Electric, Mitsubishi, and Samsara. As Paligo expands its US footprint, we’re building a specialized expansion function to unlock growth across our existing customer ecosystem.

Why This Role Exists

Paligo’s growth doesn’t stop at initial customer adoption.

Our most successful customers expand when they standardize documentation across products, regions, and corporate structures. Many of our largest expansion opportunities come not from incremental usage, but from introducing Paligo to entirely new companies within the same corporate ecosystem.

This role exists to identify, create, and close those strategic expansion opportunities.

As an Account Executive, Strategic Accounts, you are responsible for hunting whitespace across known customer networks, opening doors into sister and holding companies, and driving new revenue through complex, high-impact expansion plays.

This is a role for sellers who want:

• Strategic territory ownership

• Deal creation, not just deal execution

• Enterprise-grade selling inside warm but competitive environments

Role Summary

We are looking for a hunter-minded Account Executive to drive net-new expansion revenue across Paligo’s existing customer graph. You will manage a pre-vetted portfolio of up to 200 global target accounts, all scored and prioritized based on ICP fit and strategic relevance. These accounts are named sister or holding companies connected to existing Paligo customers, with a mandate to identify, create, and close expansion opportunities through focused, high-probability expansion plays.

You are expected to self-source 30–40% of your pipeline, using targeted outbound, relationship mapping, and account research, supported by Marketing and Revenue Operations. Expansion deal sizes today typically range from $25k–$100k ARR, with sales cycles spanning several months to multiple quarters.

Over time, as Paligo expands its product portfolio, this role will also take on larger, more complex upgrade motions across existing customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own net-new expansion revenue across a portfolio of up to 200 mid-market and enterprise accounts, with success driven by prioritization and depth rather than blanket coverage.

• Proactively hunt for expansion opportunities, with a strong focus on selling Paligo into sister companies and holding companies connected to existing customers.

• Self-generate 30–40% of expansion pipeline through outbound prospecting, stakeholder mapping, and targeted account outreach.

• Lead full expansion sales cycles, from discovery through evaluation, negotiation, and close, often spanning multiple quarters.

• Build and maintain multi-threaded relationships across documentation, product, engineering, IT, procurement, and executive stakeholders.

• Run structured account planning to identify whitespace, expansion triggers, and prioritization across a large account portfolio.

• Navigate enterprise buying processes including procurement, legal, security reviews, and RFPs when required.

• Collaborate closely with Customer Success (who owns renewals) to align on account health and timing, while retaining full ownership of expansion opportunities.

• Partner with Sales Engineering and RevOps to execute high-quality evaluations, maintain forecasting accuracy, and scale repeatable expansion motions.

• Feed expansion insights back to Product and GTM leadership as Paligo’s product portfolio evolves.

What This Role Is Not

To avoid any ambiguity:

❌ This role does not own renewals

❌ This role is not focused on incremental upsells within existing teams

❌ This role is not a passive account management position

This role is for sellers who enjoy creating opportunities, not just servicing accounts.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in expansion sales, account management, or account executive roles in B2B SaaS.

• Proven ability to create pipeline proactively inside existing customer ecosystems.

• Strong experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles lasting several months or longer.

• Track record closing deals in the $25k–$100k ARR range (or comparable complexity).

• Highly tech-savvy, with the ability to quickly understand and articulate a sophisticated SaaS product.

• Confident engaging procurement, legal, and executive stakeholders.

• Comfortable owning a large account book while prioritizing high-probability expansion paths.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling into documentation, product, engineering, or operational functions.

• Familiarity with selling across multi-entity corporate structures (holdcos, subsidiaries, global orgs).

• Experience working in remote-first, globally distributed SaaS organizations.

Career Growth & Evolution

As Paligo’s product portfolio expands, this role will grow in scope and strategic importance. Over time, you can expect:

• Larger expansion deal sizes

• More complex, multi-product upgrade motions

• Broader buying committees and deeper executive engagement

• Clear progression into senior expansion or strategic sales roles

Compensation & Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation package with:

• Base salary

• Variable compensation focused on cross-sell performance

Benefits include:

• Fully remote work with flexible hours

• Generous time off and wellness initiatives (Swedish standards)

• Annual global company meetups

• Scandinavian culture emphasizing trust, autonomy, and accountability

• Opportunity to shape and grow Paligo’s global expansion motion

How to Apply

If you’re a hunter at heart who thrives on creating new revenue inside complex organizations, and you want to help scale a category-leading SaaS company, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply with your résumé and a brief note on why this role fits your background.