Account Executive ( AE)

Vectara; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectara is seeking an Account Executive based in San Francisco, CA, focused on sourcing and acquiring new SMB customers across the Central and Eastern US. This role demands creativity and a modern approach to demonstrate how Vectara's generative AI solutions can address significant business challenges.

The successful candidate will independently manage full sales cycles, collaborating with various internal teams to achieve customer satisfaction while maintaining a strong focus on sales targets. Ideal applicants will have 5-7 years of SaaS sales experience, a strong work ethic, and the ability to articulate Vectara's business value proposition effectively.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience selling enterprise software (SaaS, Cloud preferred) as a primary account manager.
• Strong ability to understand and communicate advanced technology concepts.
• Empathetic, humble and coachable customer-centric seller.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage full sales cycles with small and mid-size companies.
• Team selling model requiring collaboration with multiple internal teams.
• Commission-based role requiring consistent quota attainment.

Skills

SaaS-native sales experience

Public speaking

Customer-centric selling

Organizational skills

Education

Four-year university/college degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Vectara provides a Trusted Generative AI platform that allows organizations to rapidly create a ChatGPT-like experience (an AI assistant) which is grounded in the data, documents and knowledge that they have. Our serverless RAG-as-a-Service also solves critical problems required for enterprise adoption, namely: reduces hallucination, provides explainability / provenance, enforces access control, allows for real-time updatability of the knowledge and mitigates intellectual property / bias concerns from large language models (LLMs). Our founding team includes industry pioneers and experts in neural information retrieval and distributed systems from Google.

Join us as we pursue our mission to help the world find meaning through trusted Generative AI for Enterprise Applications. People at Vectara are passionate about ensuring customers take advantage of breakthroughs in applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-world technology & business problems today. Our team is a group of unquestionable all-stars in their respective fields of computer science and business from Google, Cloudera, Splunk, MongoDB, Elastic and more.

Vectara is searching for an Account Executive who will be focused on sourcing and acquiring new SMB customers in the Central and Eastern US. If you’re ready to help change the world through enterprise-gradeGenerative AI solutions, then we would love to hear from you! This role is a unique bridge between our science and our customers. You will be connecting the user with the magic of our product. You relish the idea of thinking in modern, unconventional ways to show-off how Vectara can solve some of the most persistent and difficult problems humans face in finding and using information to make better decisions, faster. You will be Vectara’s brand ambassador and the first touch point for new customers. You will be able to identify and source potential new opportunities, illuminate Vectara’s unique technology and business value, and generate excitement that leads to a pipeline of great prospects for the company. The deals you close will be the foundation of long term relationships between the company and customers who love us.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage full sales cycles with small and mid-size companies, both creating leads from outbound efforts and converting inbound inquiries including negotiations, initial close, upsell and renewal.
• Team selling model requiring internal collaboration with sales development, field engineering, partner ecosystem, product marketing, customer success and leadership cohorts to delight our customers.
• Commission-based role requiring consistent quota attainment.
• Sales professional that finds & guides prospects through the Vectara buyer’s journey aligning relevant use cases and authoring tailored value propositions.
• Convincingly articulate the Vectara business value proposition to technical & business decision makers.
• Effectively manage a large pipeline of leads and opportunities in our CRM tool, maintaining accurate and relevant data on prospects and interactions.
• Travel as required to meet with clients and attend industry / field marketing events.

Qualifications

• SaaS-native sales experience.
• Prior experience selling AI, search and/or data infrastructure software to technical teams and business executives.
• Discovery skills across a diverse range of potential use cases.
• Unshakeable work ethic, entrepreneurial/startup mindset, and desire to succeed in a fast, ever changing environment.
• Empathetic, humble and coachable customer-centric seller.
• Strong public speaking and presentation acumen required.
• Must be organized, detail-oriented and process-driven with a relentless pursuit of results.
• Ability to understand and communicate advanced technology concepts.
• 5-7 years experience selling enterprise software (SaaS, Cloud preferred) as a primary account manager.
• Four-year university/college degree or equivalent experience required.
• Successful with both remote and in person selling