Account Executive, API

Perplexity; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Perplexity is seeking a self-starting, technically fluent Account Executive to own new business for the Perplexity API platform. Join our Enterprise team and sell frontier AI dev tools to large enterprises, shaping how they deploy real-time, grounded answer engines.

You will evangelize the platform with enterprise buyers, manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, and collaborate across product and engineering to respond to complex inquiries and RFPs.

Aufgaben

• Drive new business by prospecting, pitching, and closing Perplexity API platform solutions with large organizations
• Research prospects, develop account strategies, and execute outreach campaigns tailored to company and industry needs
• Conduct high-impact product demonstrations and respond to RFPs and technical inquiries

Kenntnisse

Enterprise sales

Prospecting

Product demos

RFP responses

Jobbeschreibung

Perplexity is seeking a self-starting, technically fluent Account Executive to join our small but mighty Enterprise team and own new business for the Perplexity API platform — the frontier AI developer tools (Search, Sonar, and Agent APIs) that power real-time, grounded answer engines. This is a rare seat. You'll get to sell — and help shape — frontier AI dev tools, with a front-row seat into how the most ambitious AI-native product companies think about frontier AI infrastructure. Your job is to evangelize that platform with large enterprises and turn it into durable revenue. This role is ideal for proactive sales professionals who thrive at the intersection of technology and business, can operate in ambiguity, and want to shape the future of enterprise AI.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive new business by prospecting, pitching, and closing Perplexity API platform solutions with large organizations
• Research prospects, develop account strategies, and execute outreach campaigns tailored to company and industry needs
• Conduct high-impact product demonstrations and respond to RFPs and technical inquiries
• Lead client engagement through the entire sales cycle — from initial presentation, te...