Account Executive
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SPAN
San Francisco, CA, US
Summary
You will manage complex deal cycles by crafting pitches, conducting product demos, and fostering relationships with technical stakeholders. Additionally, you will collaborate with the leadership and engineering teams to ensure effective pre-sales and post-sales processes.
Job Description
Span exists to help engineering organizations turn AI adoption into real effectiveness. As AI tools reshape how software gets built, the companies that continuously improve how their teams use AI in their day-to-day will pull ahead. We're the AI-native developer intelligence platform built for that moment. We're looking for people who want to shape how the next generation of high-performing engineering orgs operate.
We're a Series A company with a small, focused team that moves fast and ships things that matter. We’re proud to be helping forward-thinking orgs like Ramp, Carvana, Intercom, and OpenTable. We're honored to be backed by dozens of founders, CTOs, and CPOs we admire from Slack, Notion, Rippling, Fivetran, Coda, Adobe, and Square, as well as funds including Alt Capital, BoxGroup, Bling, Craft, and SV Angel.
We're on the lookout for an Account Executive to help us shape our journey at Span. If you’re passionate about sales and passionate about selling to technical end users, keep reading!
What You’ll Be Up To:
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You’ll deeply understand and empathize with our buyer, crafting the perfect pitch, fostering relationships, and driving follow up to build meaningful partnerships.
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Get ready for engaging chats—both technical and business-focused—with our up-market clients.
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You’ll navigate intricate deal cycles, showcasing Span through product demos, handling proofs-of-concept, and crafting compelling business case studies.
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Regular reporting and updates will be your jam as you share analytics and forecasts with the company.
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Work closely with our CEO, CTO and Engineering team to ensure smooth pre-sales and post-sales processes.
What we’re looking for:
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7+ years of B2B sales experience, especially at a startup.
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Experience selling to CTOs, VPs of Engineering, or similar roles.
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A history of closing deals from 150k- 300k ARR.
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A passion for learning and self-improvement— you’re not afraid of a challenge and can thoughtfully implement feedback immediately.
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Team players who want to win on an individual and company-wide level.
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Competitive and goal driven individuals who have a track record of smashing their sales goals.
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You thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment and embrace the hustle.
Bonus Points If You Have:
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Experience as an early sales hire at another startup.
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Developing a sales methodology from first principles- understanding the unique needs of Span and our buyers and developing sales principles that meet our product– even if it’s not “how it’s normally done”
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Experience embracing new tools and technologies, including AI, to make you and your team more efficient.
If this excites you, we’d love to chat! Let’s make some waves together at Span!
SPAN is a technical strategy and software engineering firm. We conceptualize, develop, and deploy successful SaaS solutions. We synthesize insights from widespread market challenges into powerful software product offerings.
For a decade, our team of polyglot software engineers, strategists, and program managers has been on the leading edge of software development solving tough technical problems for both scaling start-ups and some of the world’s largest companies.
At SPAN, we love a challenge—where we get to be inventive and tenacious. Based in San Francisco, Guadalajara, and Cape Town, we’re a fast-paced, action-oriented team that thrives on collaboration. We weave design, development, and strategy together in iterative, interdisciplinary ways enabling our clients to overcome the complexity of accelerating technological change.
Advance your career, learn, and have fun by becoming part of our diverse but cohesive crew of computer engineering graduates, reformed punk rockers, self-taught coding connoisseurs, and data wranglers of all stripes. If you enjoy using the latest software tech to solve real-world problems, you’ll fit right in here!
Founded
2013
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
SPAN is a technical strategy and software engineering firm. We conceptualize, develop, and deploy successful SaaS solutions. We synthesize insights from widespread market challenges into powerful software product offerings.
For a decade, our team of polyglot software engineers, strategists, and program managers has been on the leading edge of software development solving tough technical problems for both scaling start-ups and some of the world’s largest companies.
At SPAN, we love a challenge—where we get to be inventive and tenacious. Based in San Francisco, Guadalajara, and Cape Town, we’re a fast-paced, action-oriented team that thrives on collaboration. We weave design, development, and strategy together in iterative, interdisciplinary ways enabling our clients to overcome the complexity of accelerating technological change.
Advance your career, learn, and have fun by becoming part of our diverse but cohesive crew of computer engineering graduates, reformed punk rockers, self-taught coding connoisseurs, and data wranglers of all stripes. If you enjoy using the latest software tech to solve real-world problems, you’ll fit right in here!
Founded
2013
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA