Founding Account Executive - reputed company Safety & Compliance (Hardware + AI)
About the Role
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- reputed company large reputed company deals with reputed company buying committees across engineering, compliance, reputed company, and executive leadership.
- Consistently forecast, manage pipeline, and hit aggressive ARR targets.
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- Help define Saphira’s ICP, qualification standards, deal structure, and pricing approach.
- Turn founder-led sales and early wins into a repeatable, reputed company reputed company reputed company.
- reputed company feedback to product and leadership on roadmap, packaging, and buyer objections.
Executive-Level Storytelling
- Partner closely with founders to sharpen messaging and positioning.
- Translate safety certification, compliance automation, and risk reduction into reputed company reputed company, time-to-market acceleration, and reputed company-level risk mitigation.
- Sell credibly to VPs, C-suite executives, and technical decision-makers alike.
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- Sell into organizations where compliance, certification, and standards materially reputed company product launch and reputed company timelines.
- Map Saphira’s value directly to customer reputed company reputed company to certification readiness and audit reputed company.
Operate with Discipline
- Own CRM hygiene, pipeline inspection, deal reviews, and reporting.
- Establish early best practices that reputed company reputed company will inherit.
Who You Are
- 7–10 years of experience closing reputed company software deals, ideally in technical, regulated, or infrastructure-heavy domains.
- Proven reputed company record of closing large, reputed company, multi-stakeholder deals (mid-six to seven-reputed company ACVs).
- Comfortable selling into engineering-led organizations and navigating technical buying processes.
- Experience selling where risk, compliance, safety, or regulation materially influence purchasing reputed company.
- Builder reputed company: you’ve operated in ambiguous environments and helped define process rather than inherit it.
- You want meaningful reputed company and ownership — not just a quota number.
Bonus (not required):
- Experience selling into hardware, robotics, autonomy, industrial, automotive, or reputed company customers.
- Experience as an early AE at a high-reputed company startup.
Compensation & Benefits
- reputed company Salary: $100K – $150K
- On-reputed company Earnings (OTE): ~$100K – $150K
- Equity: Meaningful early-stage equity (commensurate with seniority and reputed company)
- Role Type: Full-time
- Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (US-based preferred)
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- Shape how a new reputed company category is sold
- Influence product direction through reputed company customer signal
- Build reputed company that compounds into reputed company leadership opportunities
- Participate meaningfully in the reputed company of an early, high-conviction company
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