Founding Account Executive

talentpluto
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

Join a fast-growing application security startup as a Founding Enterprise Account Executive to help expand its enterprise sales function. This role offers meaningful ownership and the potential to grow into a broader leadership role as the team scales.

What You Will Do

Own full-cycle enterprise sales opportunities from prospecting through close, source new enterprise pipeline, sell to technical security stakeholders, and partner with customer engineering and technical team members.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Ideal candidate has 5+ years of B2B sales experience, experience selling into cybersecurity, and strong ability to self-source pipeline and operate in an early-stage sales environment.

Requirements

  • Approximately 5+ years of B2B sales experience
  • Experience selling into cybersecurity, application security, product security, security engineering, or similarly technical buyers
  • Strong ability to self-source pipeline and operate in an early-stage, founder-led sales environment
  • Prior experience at a high-growth startup, ideally Series A stage or earlier
  • Ability to communicate credibly with technical stakeholders and understand security concepts well enough to avoid relying entirely on technical support
  • Track record of managing complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders
  • Strong ownership mentality, urgency, and comfort operating without fully built systems or processes
  • Willingness to travel for customer meetings, conferences, and field events

Benefits

  • Approximately $300K OTE
  • 50/50 base and variable split
  • Opportunity to join at an early inflection point and help shape the company’s enterprise go-to-market motion
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