Jimmy Barens

Senior Vice President | Global Solutions Engineering chez Yext

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

About

Experienced & Talented Sales and Pre Sales leader, with successful experiences in Digital Marketing, Digital Media, and Enterprise Content Management. Strong EMEA and Worldwide experience, leading very large teams (130+ people) directly and remotely across countries and regions. Demonstrate a strong track record in building long-lasting businesses and organizations in Europe and NA with regular change management experiences. Agile, reliable, curious, passionate, multicultural, creative, innovative, customer-centric, and strategic thinker. Top skills: Inspire and lead passionate people to go the extra mile, Build complex teams in a multicultural environment; Develop and lead GoToMarket deployment to success; Change management; Value and Solution selling; KPIs definition and dashboarding; develop best practices and drive knowledge sharing, Sales Enablement

Experience

  • Yext (9 yrs 6 mos)
    • Advisor
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      As an Advisor for Yext in the EMEA region, I provide strategic guidance on business development and technical pre-sales initiatives. My role focuses on bridging the gap between technology and client needs, helping organizations unlock the full value of Yext’s AI-powered solutions. I support teams in crafting effective go-to-market strategies, identifying growth opportunities, and driving customer success across diverse industries. Through my advisory work, I contribute to strengthening Yext’s market presence and innovation leadership in the digital experience domain.

    • Senior Vice President | Global Solutions Engineering
      Jul 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Yext (NYSE: YEXT) helps organizations answer every question about their business. Yext's Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph, then leverages a complementary set of products — including Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search — to deliver relevant, actionable answers wherever customers, employees, and partners look for information. For over 15 years, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Yext to create seamless content-driven experiences at scale across search engines, websites, mobile apps, and hundreds of other digital touchpoints. Learn more at yext.com.

    • VP Sales Engineering EMEA
      Feb 2017 - Jul 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      Yext is the leading Digital Knowledge Management (DKM) platform. Yext’s mission is to give companies control over their brand experiences across the digital universe of maps, apps, search engines, voice assistants, and other intelligent services that drive consumer discovery, decision, and action. Today, thousands of businesses use the Yext Knowledge Engine™ to manage their digital knowledge in order to boost brand engagement, drive foot traffic, and increase sales. Yext has been named a Best Place to Work by Fortune and Great Places to Work® as well as a Best Workplace for Women. Yext is headquartered in New York City with offices in Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Geneva, London, Paris, Tyson’s Corner, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo.

  • Member of the Management Board at Seedext
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Partenaire associé at INEXT
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Partenaire associé at SFINE
    Jul 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

  • Adobe France (18 yrs 9 mos)
    • WW Head of Sales and Customer Service Adobe Stock/Fotolia
      Dec 2015 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

      In charge of the WW Go-To-Market for the Adobe Stock for Enterprise offer and responsible of the complete direct sales, inside sales and customer service operations to deploy that strategy. Lead a team of 50 people WW to successfully position Adobe Stock to all global brands in key verticals.

    • EMEA Head of Solution Consulting, Digital Marketing and Digital Media
      Dec 2010 - Dec 2015 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Head of the pre sales organization, with 110 Solution consultant across 20 different locations in EMEA. Supporting the Sales, Channel and Marketing organizations to successfully deploy and position our Digital Media and Digital Marketing initiatives.

    • SouthWest Europe Technical Sales/PreSales Director
      Dec 2005 - Dec 2010 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Management of the Technical PreSale and Business Development manager Team across Southern and Western Europe. Also acting at CxO level as PreSale/Technical Evangelist for the Adobe solution portfolio.