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Account Executive

Stainless
Full-time
On-site
New York, NY

About Stainless

Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.

We have raised over $35 million from a16z, Sequoia, and other great investors.

We are currently 15-20 people based primarily in NYC (just west of SoHo) and looking to grow quickly over the next 3 years.

About the role

As an early Account Executive at Stainless, you will be one of the first team members dedicated to sales at Stainless, working closely with the CEO and a lean, elite team to build our GTM motion from the ground up.

What you'll do

  • Become a product expert and help customers as they adopt Stainless; assist prospects through the trial and evaluation phase.

  • Generate a strong pipeline of potential new customers and exceed quarterly targets through prospecting and fulfilling inbound demand.

  • Work with existing customers to explore revenue expansion opportunities by selling products they are not using and onboarding new teams or departments.

  • Act as the voice of the customer; advocate for customers by surfacing product or adoption blockers to our engineering team.

  • Maintain a sales pipeline and update the team on who is going to close and when.

Qualifications

  • Experience selling to a technical audience; bonus if you have previous experience writing code or working with developer tools.

  • 3+ years in a quota-carrying sales role.

  • 1+ years as an outbound SDR/BDR.

  • Experience closing complex deals with an average contract value of $100k ARR or more.

  • Startup experience; comfortable working and adapting in a fast-paced and flexible environment; building processes from scratch.

  • Strong forecasting and pipeline management skills.

  • Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and product demonstration skills.

  • Able and willing to work from our NYC office 3-5 days per week.

Benefits

  • We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.

  • Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).

  • Paid commuter benefits & similar.

  • Paid team lunch during workdays.

  • Flexible PTO plus 2 weeks of companywide vacation a year.