Exa

Exa

Founding Account Executive - NYC

New York City, San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago
SalesAccount ManagementLead GenerationValuationResearchCommunication

About the role

  • As an Account Executive at Exa, you will work with customers who need speed, intelligence, and accuracy in their workflows.
  • You'll take full ownership of deals-prospecting, running demos, negotiating, and closing.

Responsibilities

  • Help build our NYC GTM office from 0->1 (culture cultivation, in-person events, in-person sales)
  • Own the entire sales cycle-from first touch to close
  • Negotiate contracts, hit targets, and drive revenue growth
  • Experience managing a full sales cycle, from lead generation to close
  • We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs.
  • Exa is building a search engine for the AI era.

Requirements

  • 2+ years in a sales role, ideally in SaaS or AI/tech products
  • Comfort in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment

Benefits

  • Strong communication skills-you can tell a great story and sell a vision
  • In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.

Company info

  • Run product demos that make customers say "wow"
  • Develop and execute strategies to land high-value customers
  • A consultative approach-help customers see the business value, not just the features
  • Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the 90s.
  • We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history.
  • Now, we're looking for an Founding Account Executive to help us bring Exa to new verticals & to the world (aka New York City)!
  • We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).

This listing is sourced directly from Exa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.