Founding Account Executive

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Logistics • Transportation
Logistics procurement and management, simplified. Replace inbox chaos with an easy-to-use platform for all your freight.
The Role
The Account Executive will develop and manage sales pipelines, optimize sales strategies, and drive customer engagement in a startup environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are looking for a founding Account Executive to help build and manage our growing pipeline, while helping to optimize our sales playbook and lay the foundation for scaling the team.

 

This is a perfect role for someone who is scrappy, entrepreneurial, highly experimental, and interested in helping build a sales team from scratch. Ideally you have the ambition to run your own sales team one day and are comfortable working in low structure/high ambiguity environments. This is a full sales cycle role, you will have the opportunity to execute end to end from outbound prospecting through account management. 

The ideal candidate has experience working in freight/logistics/transportation and excelled in an early stage B2B startup. At a minimum you will need to have some form of freight/logistics experience. 


As one of our first Account Executives you’ll:

  • Cold call, cold call, cold call!! You cannot be afraid to pick up the phone. You will also be prospecting through emails, events, conferences and other direct communication strategies
  • Manage our outbound process, including writing and testing to identify successful messaging, and iterating on customer segmented strategies 
  • Manage the entire customer funnel, supporting prospects through the customer journey
  • Bring your creativity to bear with fresh ideas on winning new customers
  • Help define how we make your process repeatable for the next hires 


Strong candidates will have:

  • Experience in supply chain/logistics
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills 3+ years of experience in a sales role where you consistently exceeded metrics.
  • Experience working in an early stage SaaS business or an early-stage b2b company 
  • Full stack sales experience: from outbound prospecting and lead generation all the way through to demos and closing deals
  • Data driven approaches to inform the sales process, including frequent tracking and reporting efforts
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, while consistently assessing what to prioritize and deprioritize 
  • Experience with Salesforce and Outreach (or equivalent); excited to experiment with new Sales tools 


We’re looking for someone who personally:

  • Can be a strategic thinker and get their hands dirty.
  • Has the grit, hustle, and perseverance to meet ambitious growth goals and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Is a self-starter who’s intrinsically motivated and does well with ambiguity.
  • Is collaborative and comfortable working in an early stage startup where learning and adapting quickly is important.
  • Has the ability and willingness to travel 30%+ of the time
Portex is building a procurement and payment operating system for the $4 trillion logistics industry - the backbone of the global economy. We’re building simple yet revolutionary freight procurement, payment and financing products to help businesses realize pricing efficiency and transparency in global trade.Our founding team has backgrounds from Flexport, Uber, KeepTruckin, Procore and Morgan Stanley. We just raised a $8M+ seed round of funding from VC firms including Susa Ventures, Footwork, Cowboy Ventures and Base10, and a group of angels from founding teams at Uber, Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Cloudtrucks, KeepTruckin and more.


Our business is at a point where we’ve built a sticky product with high usage and retention that customers are willing to pay for. Now our #1 priority is building a repeatable sales motion to consistently scale our customer base each month. This is an opportunity to join in a founding role for the GTM function and help shape how it's built from the ground up.  


If brought on full time, we offer a competitive salary and equity package. Additional benefits include:

  • Full healthcare benefits.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Your choice of laptop and other home office equipment.


Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we provide equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills and know that more inclusion only makes our work and work environment better.

If you have any questions please reach out to [email protected].

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
35 Employees

What We Do

Portex is an easy-to-use freight procurement and management software that helps shippers organize and save time on all logistics-related workflows across their existing carriers in one place. Shippers of all sizes can centralize FTL, LTL, or international spot quotes and bids into one view, communicate across all their existing brokers/carriers via automated workflows and instant chat, view live shipment status, track carrier performance, and review pricing trends via auto-generated reports. By using Portex shippers have eliminated hundreds of emails and often 20+ hours of weekly manual tasks. In less than 10 minutes, you can start managing your existing freight relationships more efficiently. You’ll save time, be more organized, and be equipped with the freight data needed to make more strategic decisions for the business. Learn more at www.portexpro.com.

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