Clera
Founding Account Executive
San Francisco
No sponsorship$200k-$270kDetected 20 hours ago
SalesforceCRMSalesAccount ManagementNegotiationOutbound SalesProcurementCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- A product already trusted by dozens of enterprise customers.
- Every deal to date has been closed by the founding CEO.
- This hire - you - is responsible for taking the mid-market motion from founder-led to repeatable and scalable.
Responsibilities
- Build your own pipeline.
- You'll develop a repeatable outbound motion targeting the ICP - Series C-E SaaS companies with emerging or scaling value engineering functions.
- Expect to prospect, network, run events, and work creative channel plays to generate your own pipeline.
- You own the entire sales cycle from first meeting to signed contract: discovery, multi-threading across buying committees of 5-10 stakeholders, positioning with economic buyers (typically the CRO), navigating procurement, and closing.
- Build and defend business cases. Use the platform's value intelligence capabilities to build rigorous ROI analyses and business cases for prospects - this is core to the product and your pitch.
- Proven ability to own an end-to-end mid-market SaaS sales process - sourcing pipeline, qualification, negotiation, and closing - independently
- Strong experience building, presenting, and defending business cases and ROI analyses with executive-level stakeholders
- Self-starter mentality - you don't need leads handed to you and can generate your own pipeline from scratch
Requirements
- You are incentivized on expansion revenue.
Nice to have
- Background in value engineering, sales enablement, or GTM software
- Experience selling to or within high-growth SaaS organizations
- Familiarity with Salesforce or similar CRM and enterprise sales workflows
- Candidates must be willing and able to work from the San Francisco office.
Compensation
- OTE: $200,000 - $270,000 (base + variable)
Benefits
- Early-stage equity with meaningful upside in a category-defining company
- Equity: 0.3% - 1.0%
Visa & Work Authorization
- Authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa (visa sponsorship is not available)
This listing is sourced directly from Clera's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.