We are hiring our first account executive to help us build our sales foundation to scale our growth. We have a good idea of our ideal customer and are seeing strong early traction, but have a lot of work to build a scalable sales motion. In this role, you will have ownership of the full sales cycle - from identifying leads to closing deals for mid-market companies and enterprises. You’ll lay the foundation for our growth by collaborating with teammates across GTM and Product teams to continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning. Success in this role requires a combination of proactive prospecting, effective relationship-building, and expert knowledge of our product offerings.
You WillOwn the full sales cycle – from initial outreach through to deal close. Find your way to the right people at prospective customers, educate them about LLMs, and help them succeed.
Drive top of funnel activity and manage your own pipeline (we currently use Hubspot as a CRM)
Work closely with customer prospects as a trusted advisor who deeply understands their challenges and goals, and will tailor solutions to drive impact for their businesses.
Skillfully negotiate contract terms and pricing to achieve win-win outcomes.
Work closely with the marketing and product teams. You’ll get a chance to inform product roadmap by gathering customer feedback and sharing what features are resonating and what unsolved problems customers bring up. You’ll provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and improve marketing messaging.
Ideate on new sales processes and identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency.
Continuously refine the sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices.
What will help you succeedExperience: 3+ years of quota carrying and closing customers in B2B sales, with a track record of selling technical solutions to mid-market or enterprise clients.
Experience working in a startup (pre-series D)
Proven track record of generating lead pipeline, and of exceeding sales targets and quotas.
Familiarity selling to technical stakeholders, and securing deals by understanding multifaceted technical requirements and crafting tailored solutions
Self-selecting into a startup and the chaos and opportunity that come along with that. You’re eager to ‘do the work,’ big and small.
Empathy and eagerness to understand our customers' needs and a consultative sales approach
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build connections across all customer levels, from ICs to C-level executives, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
You’re genuinely excited about AI and its potential societal impacts. You want to be part of a company helping to ensure that AI is safe and useful to society.
Growth mindset. Giving and taking feedback is one of the most important aspects of our company culture. The quicker you are able to act on feedback, the faster you learn.
Self-starter mentality with a drive to achieve. Strong ability to work independently and prioritize effectively. Capacity to pivot strategies quickly and effectively in response to market feedback and team goals.
Availability to work collaboratively in-office at least 3 days a week, embracing our team-centric culture
Nice to haveExperience as an SDR. In generating prospects and leads creatively, leveraging various channels and techniques.
Experience as a founding AE
Experience at a developer focused company or in the AI space
Skills Required
- 3+ years of quota-carrying B2B sales experience closing customers
- Track record selling technical solutions to mid-market or enterprise clients
- Proven ability to generate lead pipeline and exceed sales targets or quotas
- Experience selling to technical stakeholders and understanding multifaceted technical requirements
- Consultative sales approach with empathy and customer focus
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to work collaboratively in-office at least three days per week
- Experience working at a startup before Series D
- Experience as an SDR
- Experience as a founding Account Executive
- Experience at a developer-focused company or in the AI space
What We Do
Humanloop enables companies to safely and effectively implement Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude in their organisations. Companies like AmexGBT, Duolingo and Gusto use the Humanloop developer platform to go faster from prototype to production application, evaluate outputs of LLMs and constantly improve them by fine-tuning models and incorporating private data. Humanloop is headquartered in London and was founded by leading machine learning experts that previously worked on some of the largest AI projects at Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
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