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Account Executive

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TypeFull-time
SeniorityJunior
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Posted6/25/2026
Sales
  • US market development: Build and own the US sales motion from the ground up — pipeline, process, ICP refinement, and the early customer relationships that define our market position
  • End-to-end deals: Run the full sales cycle from first conversation to signed contract and clean handoff to Customer Success
  • Pipeline creation: Drive targeted outbound across phone, email, and LinkedIn — focused, high-quality outreach backed by a proven motion from our European business
  • Deal execution: Lead structured discovery, deliver tailored demos, build mutual action plans, and navigate pricing, procurement, and negotiation
  • GTM input: Bring US market intelligence back to the team. Help adapt messaging, sequences, and ICP for the American buyer
  • Forecast discipline: Own clean, reliable pipeline management in HubSpot with full visibility into your numbers

Benefits

  • 90/10 Policy: Team members can devote 10% of their time (usually a Friday every other week) to innovate and grow professionally
  • Equipment Provided
  • Learning Budget
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Flexible Vacations Policy
  • Stock Options
  • Remote Friendly
  • Company Offsites, Events, and Activities
  • Birthday Celebration Policy- Openness to be coached and coach others
  • Confident consultative selling to senior stakeholders in Strategy, Innovation, M&A, CVC, R&D, or Venture teams
  • You build your own pipeline and are strong on calls, email, and objection handling
  • You value direct, constructive feedback and hold yourself and others to high standards
  • 2+ years closing B2B SaaS deals in enterprise or upper mid-market
  • You want to help shape how a function operates, not just perform within one that’s already fully defined
  • You’re comfortable with ambiguity and use it as an opportunity to build, not a reason to wait
  • You’re driven by outcomes and take ownership of your results without waiting to be managed
  • Strong HubSpot discipline and a structured, repeatable way of running deals
  • Experience in early-stage or first sales roles, helping build GTM from the ground up- Intro call: A conversation with our People Excellence team to walk you through the role and learn more about you and your experience
  • Deal Walkthrough & Product Demo: You’ll get to showcase one of the deals you’ve worked on and learn from our product, and join a live selling simulation with our Chief of Staff
  • Meet the team: Final conversation with our CEO and our Head of Customer Excellence
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FounderNest

FounderNest helps you uncover companies and insights in markets critical to your business, identify tailored data trends and emerging technologies, and make sure you stay ahead of your competition —while tracking their every move. Co-founded by Stanford and Wharton/Google grads and trusted by the most innovative corporations in the world, FounderNest is backed by Silicon Valley VCs and angels who are also investors in companies such as Paypal, Waze, Palantir, Square, and Pinterest, among others.

Seed
Founded2017
HQPalo Alto, US
Size32 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Funding
  • Seed · Dec 12, 2022
Tech stackbitbucket-pipeline, apollo-io, visual-studio-code, outreach, power-bi, macos, linkedin-campaign-manager, elearning-lms, infer, user-interviews

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