Account Executive

Hedra

$100K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of new business development experience in AI, developer tools, or APIs.
  • Proven success in closing complex deals with Fortune 100 or large enterprises.
  • Ability to connect with developers and technical teams, understanding their evaluation processes.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
  • Experience in startups covering the entire sales cycle.
  • Curiosity about generative AI and its infrastructure.
  • Degree in business, marketing, or a technical field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the enterprise sales cycle from lead generation to closing deals.
  • Build strong relationships with Fortune 100 companies to expand account engagement.
  • Sell technical products effectively to developers and technical buyers.
  • Create account strategies to maximize customer growth beyond initial deployments.
  • Monitor engagement metrics to measure success and drive value.
  • Work closely with product and engineering to address customer needs and secure new business.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity package
  • Healthcare options including medical, vision, and dental
  • 401K retirement plan
  • Free lunch and snacks at the office
Full Job Description
The Role

As an Account Executive at Hedra, you'll drive growth by building relationships with the developers, technical founders, and enterprise teams building on our API and inference platform. You'll own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, running a consultative process with technical buyers who care about latency, cost per deployment, model quality, and integration path. You'll work closely with our product and engineering teams to translate what customers need into where the platform goes next. Use cases span developer tooling and infrastructure, enterprise deployments, and media and creative workloads, so you'll be comfortable moving between a platform team integrating our API and a creative team pushing the limits of generation.

Responsibilities
  • Drive the full enterprise sales cycle for both inbound and outbound opportunities, from prospecting through close.
  • Land and expand relationships with Fortune 100 brands, driving brand penetration across marquee enterprise accounts and turning early pilots into production deployments.
  • Sell a technical product to technical buyers, developers, ML and platform teams, and the leaders who sponsor them, and hold credible conversations about APIs, integration, latency, and deployment economics.
  • Develop account strategies and identify high-value use cases to grow customers beyond their initial deployment.
  • Track and measure the key metrics that drive engagement, expansion, and value creation.
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering to win new business and surface unmet needs across existing and new customers.


Qualifications
  • Minimum of 5 years securing new business in AI, developer tools, infrastructure, APIs, or a related technical field.
  • Proven track record of hitting sales goals and closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals, ideally including Fortune 100 or large-enterprise accounts.
  • Comfortable selling to developers and builders. You don't need to be an engineer, but you understand how technical teams evaluate and adopt an API or platform, and can earn their trust.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Prior experience in startup environments spanning all aspects of the sales cycle.
  • Demonstrated curiosity about generative AI, world models, and the inference and infrastructure that make them usable.
  • BS or BA in business, marketing, a technical field, or equivalent experience.


Who You Are
  • Self-motivated and independent: able to set ambitious (and yet accurate!) timelines and deliver on them.
  • Low ego, high patience, proactive communication. Strong opinions, loosely held.
  • Understand operational costs and overhead, short and long term, and how they show up in a customer's deployment economics.
  • And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision with us.


Benefits
  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
  • 401K
  • Lunch and snacks at the office


We encourage you to apply even if you don't fully meet all the listed requirements; we value potential and diverse perspectives, and your unique skills could be a great asset to our team.

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