Founding Account Executive

Sapien

$100K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of full-cycle sales experience, preferably in SaaS or finance technology.
  • Proven track record of closing large enterprise deals and managing complex sales cycles.
  • Strong understanding of finance and analytics workflows, as well as the modern finance tech stack.
  • Experience in developing sales strategies and positioning for new products.
  • Ability to translate customer insights into actionable sales processes and playbooks.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the entire sales cycle from initial contact to closing deals.
  • Conduct discovery calls, product demos, and pilots with finance and analytics stakeholders.
  • Forecast sales revenue and manage a robust pipeline of opportunities.
  • Partner with leadership to shape sales narratives, strategies, and materials.
  • Contribute to the development of pricing models and packaging options.
  • Provide market insights to product and engineering teams based on customer feedback.
  • Leverage customer success stories to create references and expand business opportunities.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with direct access to executive leadership.
  • Opportunity to shape the future of a groundbreaking AI-driven finance platform.
  • Work in a dynamic and fast-paced startup located in NYC.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making processes from an early stage.
  • Potential for career growth as the company scales and expands.
Full Job Description
The Role

We're hiring our Founding AE to own deals end-to-end and help scale Sapien's revenue engine from the ground up. You'll run full-cycle sales from first conversation through close while helping shape our narrative, outbound strategy, and enterprise sales motion.

You'll work directly with the executive team to turn early traction into a repeatable, scalable sales motion. This means running discovery, demos, pilots, and negotiations, closing customers, and helping define how Sapien sells-from pricing and packaging to sales process and playbooks.

What you'll do
Sales Execution
  • Own the full sales cycle from first meeting through close.
  • Run discovery, demos, pilots, and commercial conversations with finance and analytics leaders.
  • Manage pipeline and forecast revenue. You own deals and revenue outcomes.
GTM & Sales Motion
  • Help define Sapien's sales process, pricing, packaging, and sales materials.
  • Partner with founders on positioning, messaging, and narrative.
  • Work with pipeline generation efforts (outbound, events, content) to ensure strong pipeline quality and conversion.
Customer & Market Insight
  • Develop deep expertise in finance and analytics workflows and the modern finance tech stack.
  • Feed structured market insight back to engineering, product, and leadership (what's resonating, objections, pricing feedback, and product gaps).
  • Help turn early customers into references, case studies, and expansion opportunities
What we're looking for
  • Prior selling experience. 2-5+ years in Enterprise / MM selling roles. Strong ability to own deal cycles end-to-end and lay process foundations for GTM.
  • Strong in front of customers. Experienced in selling in complex/technical selling motions. Ability to own a room and sell directly to leadership teams.
  • You build systems, not just deliverables. When you solve a problem, you make sure it stays solved. You leave behind processes, not just outputs.
  • AI-native. You use AI tools every day. You pick up new tech faster than anyone around you and you can't help but show others how to use it too.
  • High agency. You don't wait for a brief. You figure out what needs to happen and you go do it, with attention to detail that holds up under scrutiny.
How you work (values we care about)
  • AI-native. You're energized by applying AI to transform how businesses run.
  • Ambiguity-shaping. You turn nebulous problems into a first pass and drive to resolution.
  • Extreme ownership. You identify what's next-and do it. If you say it, it gets done.
  • Speed & hustle. You bias to action and move with urgency without sacrificing quality.

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