Account Executive
Role Overview
The Account Executive will close new business with UAE SMEs and mid-market companies.
The role owns the full sales cycle, including pipeline generation, discovery, demos, proposals, negotiation, and signature.
The role reports to the CRO and works with a BDR team while building outbound sales capability.
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About Pemo
Pemo is a spend management platform for SMEs across MENA, headquartered in DIFC, Dubai.
The platform offers corporate cards, expense automation, bill pay, and accounting integrations.
The company reports $18M+ in backing, recognition in the Forbes ME Top 50, and a growth ambition from $10M ARR to $100M ARR.
The role
The Account Executive will close new business with UAE SMEs and mid-market companies.
The role owns the full sales cycle, including pipeline generation, discovery, demos, proposals, negotiation, and signature.
The role reports to the CRO and works with a BDR team while building outbound sales capability.
What you will do
- Close new ARR against quota and own deals from first touch to signed contract.
- Build and qualify outbound pipeline through calls, email, and LinkedIn, in addition to inbound and BDR-booked meetings.
- Run discovery and demos for founders, owners, CFOs, and Finance Controllers.
- Negotiate pricing and terms within approved bands to win competitive deals.
- Keep HubSpot accurate and maintain dependable forecasts.
- Hand signed customers to Customer Success for activation and share market intelligence with Product and Marketing.
Must have
- At least 3 years in a B2B SaaS, fintech, or financial-services closing role selling to SMEs or mid-market companies.
- Track record of meeting or exceeding quota, with results that can be explained deal by deal.
- Proven ability to source and close outbound pipeline.
- Experience selling in the UAE market.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Rigorous CRM habits and an honest approach to forecasting.
Nice to have
- Additional languages such as Arabic, Hindi/Urdu, Tagalog, Russian, or another widely spoken UAE language.
- Experience with finance buyers or spend management, corporate cards, payments, or expense software.
- SPICED or a similar structured sales methodology, and HubSpot experience.
- Clay or data-enrichment tools; ability to use AI to refine human-written sales messages.
- An existing network of UAE founders or finance leaders.
Work arrangement
- Hybrid working from DIFC, Dubai, with flexible hours.
What Pemo offers
- Competitive base pay and uncapped variable compensation, paid in AED.
- Health insurance for the employee and dependants.
- Sales coaching, training, weekly call reviews, deal strategy, and pipeline reviews.
- Opportunity to be an early, high-impact seller as the company scales.
Hiring process
- The process includes an introductory People conversation, a conversation with the CRO, a mock discovery and demo panel, a final round with the CEO, and an offer.
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