Founding Account Executive

Flox

$120K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-10+ years of B2B software sales experience with a focus on technical products
  • Proven track record of consistent quota overachievement, including complex deals
  • Technical fluency in areas like containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience in early-stage startups, demonstrating a builder's mindset
  • Strong communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences
  • Action-oriented with a focus on execution

Responsibilities

  • Own the full sales cycle from lead generation to contract closure
  • Run proofs of concept (POCs) to drive decision-making
  • Tailor sales narratives for engineering, security, and leadership roles
  • Develop proposals that highlight business value and success metrics
  • Land and expand relationships with Fortune 100 companies
  • Navigate enterprise procurement processes and stakeholder dynamics
  • Act as the voice of the customer to inform product and engineering teams
  • Build foundational processes for scalable sales operations

Benefits

  • Full-time employment in a dynamic startup environment
  • Opportunity to shape the sales process and organizational growth
  • Involvement with high-profile clients and complex projects
  • Potential for professional development and career advancement
  • Collaborative work culture with direct influence and feedback
Full Job Description
Location: NYC in-office

Employment type: Full-Time

Reports to: Head of Business

Travel: up to 30%

The role

We're hiring our founding Account Executive to convert strong inbound and enterprise adoption. You'll be our first dedicated seller, working directly with the Head of Business and alongside Solutions Engineering to own the full sales cycle from discovery to close. This is a build role: you'll write the playbook, sharpen our ICP, and lay the pipeline and forecasting discipline that the next sellers will run on. You're equally comfortable sitting across from a staff engineer at a Fortune 5 company and walking a VP of Platform or a CISO through business value in the same meeting.

What you'll do
  • Own the full cycle. Work our strong inbound plus targeted outbound lead flow ; run discovery, orchestrate technical evaluations with our Solutions Engineers, and close, from first touch to signed contract and clean handoff.
  • Run POCs to a decision. Scope proofs of concept with defined success criteria and a clear path to purchase; keep multiple enterprise evaluations moving in parallel without dropping threads.
  • Sell across three audiences. Build tailored narratives for platform engineering, security, and leadership, and connect Flox to the tools customers already run (containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud infra).
  • Develop value based proposals. Build outcome-based proposals and presentations quantified against executive and organizational metrics.
  • Land and expand Fortune 100 logos. Win lighthouse accounts that become references, then grow them into larger deployments.
  • Navigate enterprise procurement. Multi-stakeholder buying committees, security review, and compliance, especially in financial services and technology.
  • Be the voice of the customer. Feed structured field signal back to product and engineering to shape the roadmap.
  • Build the foundation. CRM hygiene, forecasting, sequences, pricing experiments, and the repeatable motion, the artifacts that make the next deal easier than the last.


What we're looking for
  • 6-10+ years of B2B software sales, with a track record of selling a technical product to technical buyers, ideally developer tools, infrastructure, or dev-experience platforms.
  • Consistent quota overachievement, including complex six- and seven-figure deals with multi-threaded enterprise buying committees.
  • Enough technical fluency to earn credibility with staff engineers: you can hold a conversation about containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure, and place Flox precisely in a customer's existing stack.
  • A builder's instinct and comfort with ambiguity, prior experience at an early-stage startup (Seed-Series B), or genuine hunger to be early and shape a function rather than operate inside a finished one.
  • Clear, direct communication: you can explain a difficult concept to an engineer and a VP in the same breath and adjust on the fly.
  • Bias for action and execution


Nice to have
  • Experience converting bottoms-up open-source or PLG adoption into paid enterprise contracts.
  • Familiarity with Nix, virtual environments, or dev containers, or real curiosity to go deep on it.
  • Background selling into financial services or technology.

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