Founding Enterprise Account Executive

• Own a book of enterprise accounts, leading potential customers across the full sales cycle from prospecting through initial production rollout
• Generate pipeline through proactive, creative outbound - including personalized outreach, conferences, exclusive events, and finding warm introductions
• Craft outbound communications that deliver real value to prospects - custom benchmarks, competitive insights, use-case-specific demos that earn replies
• Develop authentic champions within target accounts who advocate for AssemblyAI internally and help shepherd deals to close
• Engage multiple leadership stakeholders in parallel - CTO, CPO, VP Engineering, VP Product, VP of AI, and other technical decision-makers - to build consensus and de-risk deals
• Position AssemblyAI’s value and pricing against alternatives with clear, quantitative and qualitative differentiation
• Drive urgency through business value at every touchpoint, keeping deals moving forward with intent
• Quarterback complex, multi-threaded deals - bringing insights, perspective, and momentum to every customer interaction
• Partner closely with Customer and Technology Teams to represent the enterprise voice of the customer and shape go-to-market strategy

• 4+ years of enterprise infrastructure or API sales experience closing large deals with engineering and product audiences
• A track record of building pipeline from scratch - experience breaking into cold accounts and creating opportunities where none existed
• Technical fluency - comfortable discussing API architectures, model accuracy tradeoffs, and deployment options with engineers and technical decision-makers
• Demonstrated ability to identify and develop champions who advocate internally on your behalf
• A high sense of urgency and ownership; you move deals forward and don’t let them go stale
• Comfort selling in a frictionless, product-led motion where customers stay because the product wins
• Deep understanding of enterprise procurement, legal, and security review processes, with the ability to drive velocity through complex commercial cycles
• A willingness to travel to drive impact - expect to be on the road 50%+ of each month for customer visits, industry events, and team offsites

Pay range: $300K - $370K

• Competitive equity grants
• 100% employer-paid benefits
• 401k match up to 4% for US-based full time team members