Founding Account Executive

Aerovy

$125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-10+ years in enterprise software sales with a track record of closing multi-six- and seven-figure ACV deals.
  • Full-cycle sales experience from pipeline building to closing on your own.
  • Proficient in using a qualification framework like MEDDIC or SPICED.
  • Experience in selling to manufacturers or industrial enterprises, comfortable in diverse environments, from plant floors to boardrooms.
  • Understanding of telematics, fleet software, and predictive maintenance technologies.
  • Background in early-stage companies where you contributed to creating sales processes.
  • Strong grasp of pricing strategies and margin management.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage your sales pipeline from a targeted 120-account list through research and outbound efforts.
  • Utilize sales automation and AI to efficiently prospect and expand outreach.
  • Leverage and improve the Aerovy sales playbook through the entire sales process.
  • Prioritize quality leads by effectively qualifying and disqualifying prospects early on.
  • Lead in-depth discovery sessions to uncover deeper client needs beyond initial asks.
  • Collaborate with marketing to create sales support materials like case studies.
  • Involve founders for technical validation and to scope pilot projects.
  • Maintain accurate pipeline data and sales forecasts in CRM systems.
  • Travel to customer sites to conduct meetings and build relationships.
  • Provide feedback from field experiences to inform product positioning and development.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future direction of Aerovy as its founding Account Executive.
  • Direct report to the CEO, providing visibility and influence at the executive level.
  • Flexibility in sales strategy to adapt to evolving product offerings and market needs.
  • Chance to create scalable processes that will guide future sales hires.
Full Job Description
The role

You'd be Aerovy's founding Account Executive, reporting directly to the CEO. This is a potentially career-defining role to establish Aerovy's GTM engine.

The Aerovy platform continues to iterate, so the pitch, the pricing, and the roadmap will continue to advance while you sell. Some weeks that means selling a capability that ships next quarter and being straight with a buyer about the gap. You'll help write the process as you go. That requires: the discipline to run a tight cycle and the stomach for a moving target. Whatever you build will become the template for the reps who come after you.
What you'll do
  • Build your own pipeline from the 120-account named list: research the account, run outbound, book meetings with the ICP.
  • Put sales automation and AI to work on prospecting, with sequences and account research that let one seller cover a list this size
  • Leverage the Aerovy sales playbook & iterate upon it to move prospects through selling stages of discovery to technical validation to business case to signature
  • Qualify hard and disqualify early. A short list of real deals beats a long list of maybes, and walking away from the wrong one protects the quarter
  • Lead discovery that gets past the stated ask to the P&L underneath: downtime, warranty leakage, first-time fix rate, cost to serve
  • Work with marketing to develop case studies and collateral that support the enterprise selling process
  • Bring in the founders for technical validation and pilot scoping
  • Keep pipeline and forecasts current in the CRM; your territory, your number
  • Travel to customer sites for meetings
  • Feed what you hear in the field back into positioning and the roadmap
  • Write down what works so future AEs starts from your process
What we're looking for
  • 6 - 10+ years selling enterprise software, with closed deals at six- and seven-figure ACV on multi-quarter cycles
  • Full-cycle experience: you've built pipeline from scratch, run discovery, managed technical evaluations, and closed on your own
  • A qualification framework you actually run, whether that's MEDDIC, SPICED, or one you built yourself
  • Experience selling to manufacturers or industrial enterprises; you're comfortable on a plant floor and in a boardroom
  • Working fluency in at least one of: telematics, fleet software, aftermarket and field service, predictive maintenance, enterprise data platforms
  • Time at an early-stage company where the playbook didn't exist yet, and you were part of writing it
  • Commercial maturity on pricing and margin, including when to hold firm on terms
  • Clean CRM hygiene and a forecast people trust
Nice to have
  • Existing relationships in material handling, construction equipment, specialty vehicles, or electrified systems
  • You've converted a pilot into an enterprise agreement and can walk through how it happened
  • Working fluency in at least one of: telematics, fleet software, aftermarket and field service, predictive maintenance, enterprise data platforms
  • Comfort pricing data and AI platforms on value

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