Vercel

Account Executive- Startups, Greenfield

Vercel$170K — $209K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of successful sales experience in a technical field
  • Demonstrated history of exceeding pipeline generation and closing targets
  • Strong communication skills to effectively engage with technical stakeholders
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with experience in startup environments
  • Collaborative team player with a positive attitude
  • Deep appreciation for customer success and value creation
  • Keen interest in technology, especially in AI and startup ecosystems

Responsibilities

  • Manage the complete sales process from prospecting to closing
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize customer outcomes
  • Continuous learning about Vercel's technology and industry trends
  • Guide startups on their technical and business growth journeys
  • Become knowledgeable in vital scaling techniques and best practices
  • Advise founders on product strategy and market entry
  • Share community insights to help startups navigate growth challenges

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with equity options
  • Comprehensive and inclusive healthcare benefits
  • Opportunities for professional development and networking
  • Flexible paid time off policy
  • Equipment provision and WFH budget for home office setup
Full Job Description
About The Role

You are an expert in Vercel, you have incredible pattern recognition, and are at the bleeding edge of the tech and tools defining how we live and work. In this role, you'll help startups unlock Vercel's full value from adoption through scaling-building relationships with founders and technical leaders who are making critical architectural decisions. You'll analyze usage patterns to identify expansion opportunities, coordinate cross-functional teams to drive outcomes, and guide teams as they adopt AI-native architectures. By leveraging automation and AI to maximize your impact, you'll help refine early plays into repeatable playbooks that scale across our startup portfolio.

If you're based within commuting distance of our London office, the role includes in-office anchor days.
What You Will Do
  • Build trusted relationships with founders, developers, and technical leaders by quickly developing deep understanding of their architecture, use cases, and technical constraints
  • Landing new logos, driving early activation, and making Vercel the default choice before competitors get in
  • Driving first activation, earning trust fast, and positioning Vercel as the obvious default stack
  • Focus on pipeline generation, outbound, identifying high-potential startups early
  • Partner with founders and developers as they adopt AI-native features and architectures, helping them understand how Vercel's Frontend Cloud fits into a rapidly evolving developer ecosystem and supports new workloads, performance requirements, and scaling patterns
  • Use automation, agents, and self-built workflows to operate at high leverage and focus time and energy on the most impactful customer work
  • Operate comfortably in an evolving environment, helping refine early motions and turn what works into repeatable playbooks
About You

We're looking for someone who sits at the intersection of technical curiosity, commercial excellence, and startup mindset. You identify pattern recognition, have founder empathy, and have the ability to speak credibly to pre-seed through Series D companies and beyond who are making fast decisions.

You might be a great fit if you've developed this skill set through a range of paths-whether as a builder, founder, engineer, or in a technical go-to-market role-and you bring strong judgment, ownership, and curiosity to how you work.

In practice, this looks like someone who:
  • Learns complex technical products quickly and enjoys reasoning about how modern web and AI-native applications are built and scaled
  • Can speak comfortably with developers and founders, using their language and earning credibility through insight rather than titles
  • Has strong sales acumen and experience owning revenue outcomes across a range of deal sizes and complexities
  • Believes that the best revenue outcomes come from deeply successful customers, not transactional selling
  • Brings a thoughtful, opinionated point of view on modern web infrastructure, frontend performance, and scaling tradeoffs
  • Thrives in ambiguity and enjoys shaping how a team and motion evolves from early to more structured
  • Is energized by ownership, accountability, and helping customers make smart decisions
What This Role Is Not
  • Not a pure Customer Success role focused on reactive support
  • Not a transactional sales role detached from customer outcomes
  • Not a highly scripted role with narrow ownership or predefined motions

This role requires judgment, curiosity, and comfort operating across technical, strategic, and commercial dimensions.
Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA OTE range for this role is $170,000-$209,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

About Vercel

Vercel Inc., formerly Zeit, is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework. Vercel's architecture is built around Jamstack, and deployments are handled through Git repositories.
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