Account Executive, Enterprise
Growth Troops
Date: 1 day ago
City: Cape Town, Western Cape
Contract type: Contractor
Remote

Senior Account Executive
Eastern Time Hours | Competitive Compensation | High-Growth, Venture-Backed SaaS Startup
Overview
An emerging NYC-based SaaS company—backed by leading venture investors—is scaling rapidly and building next-generation solutions for enterprise marketers. Their platform helps brands optimize over $1M+ in annual ad spend, and they are assembling a top-performing founding GTM team to fuel the next phase of growth.
This opportunity is ideal for a senior-level sales professional with a proven record of closing complex enterprise deals. Candidates should be energized by fast-paced environments and comfortable running full-cycle sales motions at early-stage startups.
Responsibilities
Required Experience:
Eastern Time Hours | Competitive Compensation | High-Growth, Venture-Backed SaaS Startup
Overview
An emerging NYC-based SaaS company—backed by leading venture investors—is scaling rapidly and building next-generation solutions for enterprise marketers. Their platform helps brands optimize over $1M+ in annual ad spend, and they are assembling a top-performing founding GTM team to fuel the next phase of growth.
This opportunity is ideal for a senior-level sales professional with a proven record of closing complex enterprise deals. Candidates should be energized by fast-paced environments and comfortable running full-cycle sales motions at early-stage startups.
Responsibilities
- Manage the full sales cycle from outbound prospecting through to signed contract.
- Sell multi-seat, multi-year SaaS deals to enterprise organizations, often exceeding six figures in annual contract value.
- Build and deepen relationships with senior decision-makers across marketing, analytics, procurement, and data teams.
- Navigate long and technical sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders.
- Maintain a precise pipeline and forecast using Salesforce and HubSpot.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, marketing, and customer success to optimize the go-to-market engine.
- Leverage Gong.io to analyze calls, refine messaging, and support team-level learning.
- Contribute to the refinement of sales strategy, playbooks, and positioning as one of the early sales hires.
Required Experience:
- 6+ years in full-cycle sales roles within US-based, venture-backed SaaS startups.
- Demonstrated success closing enterprise software deals—especially multi-seat and multi-year contracts.
- Experience selling into large brands, ideally within the advertising, marketing, or media space.
- Fluency with modern sales tools including Salesforce, HubSpot, and Gong.io.
- Comfortable speaking to both technical and business leaders.
- Availability to work startup hours within the Eastern Time Zone.
- Previous role at an early-stage company with direct involvement in building sales processes and playbooks.
- Experience selling to marketing, analytics, or data science teams.
- History of closing deals exceeding $100K+ ARR.
- Join a fast-growing, well-funded startup during a high-impact phase of scale.
- Sell a high-value product in a dynamic and fast-evolving ecosystem.
- Work closely with a proven founding team and respected investors.
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