Founding Account Executive

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
120K-240K Annually
Junior
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Own the full enterprise sales cycle from initial conversation through signed contract. Generate pipeline, lead complex multi-stakeholder deals with technical, risk, and purchasing teams, establish a repeatable sales process, and share customer insights with leadership and product. The role requires experience closing enterprise software deals, selling to technical buyers, managing opportunities end to end, and carrying a quota.
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About the company

Our client is a cybersecurity company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as the first dedicated closer and take full ownership of new business, from the first conversation through signed agreement. The role suits someone who has personally run large, multi-party sales cycles and can also build the prospecting habits and repeatable process a young sales function needs.

What you'll do

- Take ownership of every new-customer opportunity from first call through signed contract.

- Lead long, multi-party sales cycles involving technical, risk and purchasing stakeholders.

- Generate part of your own pipeline alongside inbound leads and meetings booked by the development team.

- Establish a repeatable sales process as the first dedicated account executive.

- Relay customer and market insights to company leadership and the product group.


Requirements

What we're looking for

- Track record of personally closing deals with large, established enterprise buyers.

- Sales background with a complex software product aimed at technical teams.

- Ability to hold credible conversations with security buyers; a technical degree is not required.

- At least one year of experience in a quota-carrying closing role.

- Experience running deals end to end rather than supporting them.

- Willingness to source your own pipeline.

Bonus points

- Background selling into regulated, risk-sensitive buyers.

- Experience as a founding or early account executive at a startup.


Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 120,000 per year

- On-target earnings: USD 240,000 per year

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site, in office

- Full-time

Skills Required

  • Track record of personally closing deals with large, established enterprise buyers
  • Sales experience with a complex software product aimed at technical teams
  • Ability to hold credible conversations with security buyers
  • At least one year of experience in a quota-carrying closing role
  • Experience running deals end to end rather than supporting them
  • Willingness to source your own pipeline
  • Background selling into regulated, risk-sensitive buyers
  • Experience as a founding or early account executive at a startup
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.

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