Account Executive

ElectronX; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Disability insurance

Unlimited vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

ElectronX is seeking a high-energy sales professional to own and grow a portfolio of hedger accounts in the Houston and Austin energy ecosystem. The role is in-person, relationship-driven, with weekly contact, dinners, events, and live demos.

You will win the first trades and scale each account into recurring volume, shaping how hourly power trading via API is adopted by modern buyers in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Qualifications

• Credibility and relationships in target vertical, ideally from selling into or working with the accounts you’ll cover.
• Relationship-based seller who hunts—open doors via reputation and referrals, then grow depth over time.
• Highly autonomous and self-directed, comfortable owning outcomes without heavy structure above you.

Responsibilities

• Own your portfolio end to end — find, engage, and activate the accounts in it.
• Take accounts from first trade to meaningful, recurring volume, growing the depth of each book over time.
• Own the revenue your portfolio generates and the full sales cycle behind it.

Skills

Relationship selling

Portfolio management

Autonomy

Prospecting

Job description

Who are we?

ElectronX™ is the first U.S.-regulated, direct access electricity derivatives market, offering financial products to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With offices in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is building the missing financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to smooth the path for U.S. energy production, diversification and grid expansion in a time of rapidly increasing power demand.

ElectronX is a venture capital-backed startup supported by premier VC partners including Innovation Endeavors, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures LLC, DCVC, Amplo, BoxGroup and Lightning Capital.

Who are we looking for?

As a fast-growing company in the highly competitive, quantitative capital markets industry, ElectronX values candidates who are resourceful, curious and adaptable to change. Our cultural focus on innovation requires collaborative and entrepreneurial teammates with the intellectual grit necessary for near- and long-term success.

You’ll own the full sales cycle for ElectronX’s key hedger accounts across the Houston and Austin energy ecosystem: identifying them, winning the first trade, and growing each into a deep, recurring book. The work is relationship-driven and in person: weekly contact, dinners, industry events, and live demos.

Why this role?

You own your portfolio. You run it with real autonomy and answer for the results, with little structure above you and not much red tape to fight. We move fast, and you help shape how power gets traded next: hourly, through an API, sold to firms that still trade it the old way. It’s a hard sell. If you like a hard sell, this is one of the biggest there is.

What will you be doing?

_ OWN AND GROW YOUR PORTFOLIO _

• Own your portfolio end to end — find, engage, and activate the accounts in it
• Take accounts from first trade to meaningful, recurring volume, growing the depth of each book over time — that depth, not the first trade, is where the value sits
• Own the revenue your portfolio generates and the full sales cycle behind it

_ SELL THE VISION _

• Build the relationships that carry each account — a steady contact cadence, live demos, and the touch points that keep you close to the buyer
• Listen closely on every sales call to understand each customer’s end-to-end use case, then craft the pitch to that specific use case so it lands
• Sell the vision of API-driven, hourly power trading and bring skeptical, old-school buyers along

_ PARTNER ACROSS COMMERCIAL AND PLATFORM _

• Run regular reviews with go-to-market and RevOps, turning what drives ADV with each customer into a repeatable, sales-science-driven motion
• Use ElectronX’s client visibility and observability stack to see what customers are doing and where the openings are to re-engage
• Carry customer needs back to product and operations so their asks get prioritized in the wider platform roadmap

What we need from you

_ EXPERIENCE & SKILLS _

• Credibility and relationships in your target vertical, ideally from time selling into or working alongside the customers you’ll cover
• A relationship-based seller who also hunts — you open doors on reputation and referrals, then grow the depth of each book you land over time
• Highly autonomous and self-directed, comfortable owning outcomes without heavy structure above you

_ NICE TO HAVE _

• Familiarity with power / electricity markets and trading workflows
• Comfort selling a technical, API-driven product and an emerging way of transacting
• An existing book of relationships with the accounts we’re targeting

_ THE RIGHT MINDSET _

• Raw intelligence: You’re incredibly smart and it shows in the work — you can go toe-to-toe with sophisticated buyers and hold your own on their turf
• Customer obsession: You orient everything around the customer — their exposure, their workflow, their reasons to hesitate — and you understand their business better than they expect you to
• Quick study: You get up to speed fast on the product, the industry, our customers, and our competition, and you keep learning as all four move
• Ownership mentality: You take full responsibility for your work from conception to production.
• Bias for action: You’d rather ship and iterate than over-engineer for hypothetical futures.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: You’re energized by building something new and comfortable with startup uncertainty
• High agency: You identify problems and solve them without waiting for permission
• Drive and intensity: You bring a high-motor, “killer” work ethic day in and day out, and a hard problem energizes you rather than wears you down

Benefits

• Health, vision and dental insurance

• 401(k) match

• Supplemental health and disability insurance

• Unlimited vacation

• Parental leave

Equal Opportunity Statement:

ElectronX is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.