Startup Account Executive - Americas (East)

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2 Locations
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120K-165K Annually
Junior
HR Tech • Software
The all-in-one recruiting platform, evolving at the speed of AI. Empowering ambitious teams from Startups to Enterprise.
The Role
About Ashby
  • We’re building the next generation of enterprise software, starting with products that help talent leaders, recruiters, and managers unlock hiring excellence

  • Raised our Series D earlier this year, and we’re growing ARR >100% YoY

  • Have over 3,000 amazing customers, including OpenAI, Ramp, Deliveroo, Notion and Snowflake

  • Built multiple products to win both land-and-expand and material new business deals

  • Rapidly moving up-market with no signs of slowing down

  • Implemented AI throughout the platform

  • Known for our pace of innovation and advanced analytics

About this Role

We're hiring an Account Executive in North America (East) to continue to scale Ashby's fast growing Startup segment! In this role, you'll help play a key role on a small team, helping us win new business with growth companies of up to 100 employees. We receive a steady stream of inbound leads in this segment, which means our Startup AEs need to be highly organized and capable of managing a high volume of opportunities. You'll also do outbound pipeline development to some of the fastest growing and exciting venture-backed startups in the market to accelerate our growth.

To ensure a smooth review process, please apply to only one territory (East or West) that best aligns with your background and time preferences.

You could be a great fit if
  • 📣 You practice clear, concise communication. You write short, effective emails. You are skilled at executing outbound strategies that target high growth startup accounts and want the opportunity to lead the team in pipeline creation. 

  • 🕘 You’re highly organized and diligent with your time. You know where to focus your efforts to produce the best results.

  • 🤓 You love becoming an expert. You enjoy learning about new fields of interest, and can distill information down to its essence to share with others.

  • 🔍 Your peers describe you as detail oriented. You send crisp follow-up emails, on time. You take pride in internal operations, like real-time CRM updates.

  • ⚡️ You move fast. You leverage tools/technology to maximize your selling time. You are comfortable managing a pipeline of 15+ opportunities concurrently.

  • 🎧 You are an excellent listener. You consistently seek to understand both the technical pain and the business impact, hearing the nuance and detail in what others have to say.

  • 🧑‍💼 You are a collaborative team player, dedicated to supporting your colleagues and contributing to the team's overall success. You thrive in a cooperative environment where growth and team success are valued.

Requirements
  • 🤝 You have 2+ years of full-cycle SaaS sales experience

  • 📢 You source sales meetings from outbound prospecting activities

  • 📈 You have consistently achieved stretch targets by being both creative and organized

Bonus Points
  • You were previously a recruiter or RecOps professional and have used Ashby or other tools like Greenhouse or Lever

  • You have previously sold to TA professionals

  • Or, you were a top performing inbound and outbound BDR before becoming an AE

Reasons not to apply:
  • You are uncomfortable running your own product demonstrations

  • You only want to work on a small number of big deals

  • You would rather not have your day to day to consist of 4+ meetings per day

Our Philosophy

Here are a few key points that should give you an idea of what it is like to work with us:

  • We invest in building best-in-class products with strong product development velocity since we believe a highly differentiated product is easier to sell.

  • We aim to offer deep expertise whenever we interact with prospects and customers.

  • We strongly believe that small teams of talented people (and the right work environment) deliver much better performance than teams with large headcount. We hire and compensate accordingly.

Interview Process:

Our interview process is thorough — we aim to ensure each person that joins the team is the right fit for Ashby and will provide ample information for you to assess if Ashby is the right fit for you. The process for this role is as follows:

  • Recruiter Screen -30 min

  • Sales Writing Take Home

  • Hiring Manager Interview - 60 min

  • Sales Demo and Revenue Operations Conversation - 1.15 hr

Benefits
  • Sell a product that our customers are truly excited about.

  • Fairly set, achievable quotas. Typically, greater than 65% of AEs are at or above quota.

  • Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year

  • Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!

  • 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.

  • $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.

  • If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with 100% of all premiums covered by us, Flexible Spending Accounts and 401K match. We also offer up to 12 weeks of fully paid family/parental leave for all caregivers.
    We're in the talent acquisition software business. We run the end-to-end hiring process through our own platform, and ensure a level playing field for all candidates. Reaching out to hiring managers or recruiters directly won't improve your odds of success. Please focus your energy on the quality of your application.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Ashby is committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. We confirm that this advertisement is for an active, existing vacancy within our organization. Please be advised that we may use artificial intelligence-driven tools to assist our recruitment team in screening, assessing, and selecting candidates for this position.

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of full-cycle SaaS sales experience
  • Source sales meetings from outbound prospecting activities
  • Consistently achieve stretch targets through creativity and organization
  • Comfortable running your own product demonstrations
  • Previously a recruiter or RecOps professional and have used Ashby or other ATS tools like Greenhouse or Lever
  • Experience selling to talent acquisition (TA) professionals
  • Top-performing inbound and outbound BDR background before becoming an AE

Ashby Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ashby and has not been reviewed or approved by Ashby.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is positioned at market levels with a stated target around the 75th percentile by performance level, and the company shares how levels and compensation are determined. Feedback suggests compensation ranges are published on job postings and benchmarked using multiple data sources to improve clarity.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as top-tier for U.S. employees and dependents with employer-paid premiums, with high-quality supplemental coverage provided internationally. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage signals strong medical benefits.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Stock options include a long post-termination exercise window intended to reduce pressure and increase flexibility. This structure can make equity more accessible over time.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
230 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Ashby helps scaling companies achieve their ambitious growth targets. With Ashby, teams of all sizes can run a fast and efficient hiring process. Trusted by companies including Shopify, Snowflake, Notion, Zapier and Reddit We’re convinced there’s a lot of room for improvement in not just recruiting tools but people tools and, in general, how software products are built. There are two parts to this: the quality of the product and how the product is made. Let's start with outputs. We are continuously disappointed about the state of software products today —software should be more intelligent, powerful, and doing much more for us. Today, most business software is still a simple database with few delightful and truly helpful features. We also believe that productivity in software engineering hasn't increased nearly as much as it should have. Part of that is the lack of building blocks that can be reused across features and applications. The other part is how teams are organized and managed. We aim to innovate in both areas. Outside of the domain we're building for today (people software and, more specifically, recruiting software), Ashby is also an experiment in how fast a team can build great products over many, many years.

Why Work With Us

We have published our operating principles on our blog - they describe how we work at Ashby. They cover how we aim to run projects, spend time and make decisions. Beyond that we also look for specific attributes in new hires. Humble, Empathetic, Curious, Driven, Reliable, Transparent, Honest, and don't take themselves too-seriously

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