Join Shopify as an Account Executive on our SMB New Business team, focusing on the Spanish and Portuguese markets. Drive commerce growth by partnering with founders and fast-growing brands, helping them launch or expand their operations. This is a full-cycle role: you'll prospect, qualify, and close, combining strong outbound skills, sharp qualification, solid product knowledge, and confident negotiation.
Key Responsibilities:
Identify and capture new opportunities across multiple prospecting channels
Leverage AI tools to run high-volume, high-quality outreach
Understand each prospect's business goals and tailor Shopify solutions to their needs
Use your network and industry knowledge to generate high-quality leads
Articulate Shopify's value proposition clearly and build momentum toward a decision
Run an efficient, high-velocity sales cycle to hit and exceed your targets
Build and manage a healthy pipeline, engaging directly with founders and business owners
Collaborate on internal projects to improve our processes and go-to-market
Travel within Spain and Portugal to meet clients and attend events
Qualifications:
Fluent or native-level Spanish and professional English; Portuguese is a plus
Proven success in a full-cycle closing role, consistently exceeding targets in new business acquisition
Skilled at negotiating deals with a focus on win-win outcomes
Consultative mindset with real strength in outbound prospecting and pipeline management
Comfortable with technical product detail and eager to become a Shopify product expert
Proactive with forecasting and planning your own book
Bonus: experience building playbooks or sharing what works with a team
What we’re looking for in salespeople
Builder mindset: You don’t just follow a playbook—you improve it. You test, iterate, document, and scale what works.
Closing discipline: You’ve owned outcomes and can run a process forward with urgency and rigor (closing experience required for AE roles).
Outbound excellence: You proactively create a pipeline through high-intent outreach across channels (calls, email, social, events, partners).
Technical sales craft: You run structured discovery, quantify impact, build mutual plans, and maintain strong CRM hygiene/forecasting.
Execution intensity: You bring pace, resilience, competitiveness, and the ability to take a hit and keep going.
High agency: You default to action, take ownership, and don’t wait to be told.
Thrive in ambiguity + change: You stay effective when priorities shift, products evolve, and you’re building while selling.
Partner ecosystem experience: You’ve sourced, influenced, or co-sold deals with partners (agencies, SIs, ISVs, referral partners).
System-to-system / integration exposure: You can confidently sell into technical requirements (APIs, ERPs, POS, middleware) alongside Solution Engineers.
How we work
Shopify rewards builders with high agency. You’ll have real autonomy, high standards, and a fast pace. We iterate, we challenge each other, and we expect you to take ownership of outcomes—not wait for perfect conditions. If you want comfort and certainty, this won’t fit. If you want responsibility and growth, it will.
