Founding Account Executive

Ajax

$200K — $250K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of full-cycle sales experience in an early-stage B2B startup
  • Ability to engage and persuade managing partners effectively
  • Strong technical comprehension to articulate product details simply
  • Desire to influence and build sales processes
  • Comfort with high-stakes presentations to skeptical audiences

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with managing partners and high-level decision-makers
  • Conduct product demos and follow up with key stakeholders
  • Iterate on sales processes and identify new ideal customer profiles (ICPs)
  • Attend conferences to promote the product and connect with potential clients
  • Analyze sales calls with the co-founder to improve future performance

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Meaningful equity grant as a founding sales hire
  • Structured ramp plan for new hires to facilitate learning and earning
Full Job Description
Ajax uses AI to automate timekeeping for law firms. Customers love us - 14 of them have angel-invested their own money in Ajax, we win 97% of our pilots in a competitive market, and we\'ve never churned a logo.

We need a second AE to keep up with demand. You\'ll help build the GTM playbook and work directly with the Go-To-Market Co-Founder, Jack

Location

Mon-Fri in NYC HQ (we work best shoulder-to-shoulder)

The role

You\'ll build relationships with managing partners, run demos, and close. You\'ll also iterate on our sales process and help us break into new ICPs as we sell to bigger and bigger firms.

Most of your deals will follow a 3-4 week cycle: a 30-minute demo where you walk a champion through Ajax, sometimes a follow-up call with decision-makers, then a proposal, negotiation, and close. The Activation team takes it from there - they run the pilot, train users, and build the ROI case.

Some weeks you\'ll also:
  • Work a conference booth, set meetings on the floor, and run follow-up the same night
  • Fly out to present to a 150-person firm and win over 2 partners and a COO
  • Sit with Jack after a tough call and figure out what you\'d do differently next time
  • Field a warm referral from a happy customer who just told their friend about Ajax

Selling Ajax

Lawyers poke holes in bad arguments for a living and aren\'t shy about calling bullshit. Winning them over looks like:
  • Speaking their language, articulating the common pain points in words that resonate
  • Taking a consultative approach so you don\'t lose deals to hidden objections


Customer Love

Customers say things like \"you can take it from my cold, dead hands\" and \"I\'m divorcing my husband for Ajax.\" A few proof points you\'ll have in your pocket:
  • 30+ named case studies - firms recovering thousands per attorney per month in billable time they were leaving on the table
  • A 13-0 record in head-to-head pilots against our closest competitors
  • 15+ firms have switched from a competitor to Ajax; zero have gone the other way

Word-of-mouth will do some of the job for you (see pic) - your job is to convert it into pilots.

Who you are

You\'ve closed deals before - probably 1+ years of full-cycle or closing experience at an early-stage B2B startup. You\'re looking for a founding role where you can grow into midmarket sales, shape the playbook, and have a disproportionate impact on the trajectory of the company.

You can hold a room with a managing partner. These are smart, skeptical people who run businesses. They\'ll push you on security, ask pointed questions about how the AI works, and test whether you actually understand their world. You need to be credible and composed.

You can learn a technical product deeply enough to explain it. Ajax is a complex product that changes and improves constantly. You need to be curious enough to understand how it works and translate it into language a 50-year-old partner can understand.

You want to build, not just execute. You\'ll shape the sales process, influence how we talk about the product, and have a real voice in where the company goes.

Comp
  • OTE: $200-250K (50% variable)
  • Equity: Meaningful grant - this is a founding sales hire at a company with strong product-market fit and accelerating revenue
  • Benefits: Health, dental, vision, unlimited PTO
  • Ramp: ramp plan so you can earn while you learn the product and the market


What working at Ajax is like

We\'re 10 people and we work in-office. GTM and engineering sit next to each other and eat lunch together. When a deal needs something from product, you just walk over and ask.

Our founders are brothers - Jack (hi) runs GTM, Alex runs engineering. Our parents were lawyers. We started Ajax after we watched Alex\'s fianc\xe9e manually log billable hours and both agreed it was insane.

I personally suck at selling things I don\'t believe in, and love selling things I do. One nice thing about building Ajax is that at least once a week, somebody says we\'ve changed their life and refers a friend. If you think selling it sounds fun, drop us a line!

Hiring process
  • 30 minute screen with Jack
  • 45 mock demo and debrief
  • 3hr onsite and dinner with the team
  • Offer


If this sounds like the right opportunity at the right time, reach out. If your background looks a little different than what I described, apply anyway - we care more about trajectory and hunger than checking boxes.

Jack Weinberger, Co-Founder, GTM

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