# Founding Sales Executive

About the Role Join an early-stage industrial energy management software company as its first sales hire. You will build on an established product and customer base, leading new business and expansion across industrial markets in the DACH region. What You'll Do Own the full sales cycle for new business, from outbound prospecting and discovery through demonstrations, business cases, pilots, procurement, security review, and contract close. Build and manage a qualified pipeline through direct outreach, events, partner channels, and customer referrals. Navigate multi-stakeholder buying groups across energy procurement, plant operations, finance, IT, and executive teams. Grow customer relationships through additional use cases, sites, and cross-sells, and develop reference customers. Maintain a repeatable sales process, including account plans, CRM hygiene, qualification standards, and accurate forecasting. Share customer and market insights with company leadership to inform pricing, product direction, and target segments. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of B2B sales experience, including 2 or more years personally owning full-cycle closing responsibility. Demonstrated s

- **Id**: 3946193
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-sales-executive-9>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Nuremberg, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T17:23:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T01:15:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2260
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 50000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 222879

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: German; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T20:42:58Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 5; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 5 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 29
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.321
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:5, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 222879
- **Is top pay**: yes

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