Paraform

Paraform

SMB Account Executive (Strategic Partnerships)

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 344 days ago
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness DevelopmentOutbound Sales

About the role

  • This is a hybrid role - part sales, part partnerships, part market shaper.
  • Experience selling to services businesses (recruiting, staffing, consulting, etc.)
  • Track record of top sales performance: quick promotions, quota-crusher, or top 10% performer

Responsibilities

  • Own recruiter acquisition end-to-end - source, pitch, close, and expand
  • Build and refine outbound systems to grow pipeline
  • Account map and deepen high-potential partners over time
  • Implement structure and process that saves time and improves conversion
  • That's why we're building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.
  • We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors - and we're building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

Requirements

  • 8 years of experience in sales, partnerships, or business development at a fast-moving startup

Nice to have

  • exposure to recruiting or marketplaces

Skills

  • Strong interpersonal skills - you're great at relationship-selling and know how to grow accounts
  • Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring.

Benefits

  • Bonus: exposure to recruiting or marketplaces

Company info

  • Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.
  • Be part of shaping how supply grows and scales at a category-defining marketplace
  • We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.
  • Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.
  • At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring.

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