Founding Account Executive

talentpluto

$150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of enterprise sales experience
  • Experience selling to CISOs and application security leaders
  • Background in startups, preferably Series A or earlier
  • Demonstrated hunter mentality
  • Willingness to travel at least once a month
  • Preferred: existing network in the industry or technical expertise

Responsibilities

  • Own and close enterprise accounts from start to finish
  • Source pipeline through innovative top-of-funnel strategies
  • Manage full sales cycle including discovery, POC, and closing
  • Engage effectively with InfoSec audiences
  • Collaborate with go-to-market and customer engineers
  • Shape the enterprise sales motion and build a team over time

Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment
  • Opportunity to lead and build a team
  • Access to a go-to-market engineer to support campaigns
  • Dedicated customer engineer for proof of concepts
  • Potential for high-value enterprise deals ($500K to $1M+)
  • Working in an emerging field of application security software
Full Job Description
Location: United States (remote)

Work Model: Fully remote

Industry: Application security software

Compensation: ~$150K base, ~$300K OTE (50/50 split)
The Opportunity

This is a founding Account Executive role with the chance to own enterprise accounts and, over time, build and lead your own team. There are more large enterprise opportunities than founder-led sales can handle, so you will both work inbound demand and source your own. You will own creative top-of-funnel strategy, with a go-to-market engineer to help execute campaigns and a customer engineer assigned to every proof of concept.

Deals run from discovery through a short, capped POC and close, with an average contract value around $75K and clear opportunity to land $500K to $1M+ enterprise deals.
Responsibilities
  • Own and close enterprise accounts end to end
  • Source your own pipeline and own creative top-of-funnel strategy
  • Run the full cycle: discovery, stakeholder alignment, POC, and close
  • Hold your own with InfoSec audiences (CISOs, security and application security leaders)
  • Partner with the go-to-market engineer and assigned customer engineers
  • Help shape the enterprise motion and, over time, build out the team
Requirements
  • ~5+ years of enterprise sales experience
  • Sold to the same buyers: CISOs, security engineers, application security leaders
  • Startup experience (Series A or smaller)
  • Genuine hunter mentality and willingness to travel at least monthly
  • Bonus: a strong existing book, attendance at security conferences, or a technical background

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