Commercial Account Executive

Cartesia AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k)

Commuter Allowance

Flexible PTO

Meals & Snacks

Your own personal Yoshi

Job summary

Cartesia AI, Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Commercial Account Executive to turn qualified pipeline into revenue at scale.

You’ll own a high volume of opportunities from first conversation to close, landing new commercial accounts quickly and efficiently with minimal oversight. You’ll partner with GTM Strategists on lead handoffs, run tight POCs, forecast diligently, and manage many deals with disciplined follow-up while collaborating with Pre-Sales on technical depth to speak credibly

Qualifications

• 3+ years of closing experience in B2B SaaS with quota attainment.
• Ability to close a high volume of deals per quarter at $20K–$100K ACV.
• Experience selling API products, developer tools, or technical infra.
• Experience running POCs or technical evaluations and closing them.
• Strong discovery, objection handling, and negotiation skills with a customer-first approach.
• Excellent organization and disciplined pipeline hygiene.
• Self-management with minimal oversight in early-stage environments.
• High horsepower & competitive drive to grow the business.

Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle for qualified opportunities from discovery to close.
• Collaborate with GTM Strategists on lead handoffs and account prioritization.
• Run time-boxed POCs with clear success criteria and conversion to decisions.
• Manage a high volume of deals with accurate forecasting and follow-up.
• Partner with Pre-Sales on deals requiring technical depth.
• Hand off closed accounts to Post-Sales and identify expansion opportunities.
• Share customer feedback on objections and pricing to inform strategy.

Skills

Closing deals

B2B SaaS sales

API products sales

POC management

Discovery & negotiation

Forecasting & pipeline

Self-management

High-velocity sales

Job description

About Cartesia

Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do.

We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.

We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.

About the Role

We're hiring a Commercial Account Executive to turn qualified pipeline into revenue at scale. As an early member of our Sales team, you'll own a high volume of opportunities from first conversation to close, landing new commercial accounts quickly and efficiently. This role is for someone who thrives on speed and volume and doesn't need close oversight to execute.

Your Impact

• Own the full sales cycle for qualified opportunities: confirm fit quickly, run sharp discovery, deliver tailored demos, and close with urgency.

• Partner closely with GTM Strategists on lead handoffs. Share feedback on lead quality and fit, stay aligned on priority accounts, and make the transition from qualification to active deal seamless for the buyer.

• Run tight, time-boxed POCs: set clear success criteria up front, keep evaluators engaged, and convert results into a decision.

• Manage a high volume of concurrent deals with disciplined follow-up, accurate forecasting, and consistent attainment of monthly and quarterly targets.

• Work with Pre-Sales Engineering on deals that need technical depth, while handling most technical conversations yourself.

• Hand off closed accounts cleanly to the Post-Sales team and flag expansion opportunities as they come up.

• Share what you're hearing from customers about objections, pricing friction, and competitive signals so the team can adjust.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of closing experience in B2B SaaS, ideally at a high-growth company, with a consistent record of exceeding quota.

• A proven ability to close a high volume of deals per quarter at $20K–$100K ACV in fast-moving cycles with high activity levels.

• Experience selling API products, developer tools, or technical infrastructure, plus the technical curiosity to quickly learn APIs and AI models well enough to speak credibly with developers and technical buyers.

• Experience running POCs or technical evaluations and converting them to closed business.

• Strong discovery, objection handling, and negotiation skills, including usage-based pricing, rate cards, or consumption-based contracts, with a customer-first approach that sets up renewals and expansion.

• Excellent organization and pipeline hygiene. You keep many deals moving at once without letting any slip.

• Strong self-management. You organize your own day, prioritize without being told, and hold yourself accountable to your number with minimal oversight, even in an ambiguous early-stage environment.

• High horsepower, a hungry work ethic, and a self-starter mindset. When something's unclear, you figure it out.

• A competitive drive to win and a genuine motivation to grow the business.

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience selling AI/ML, Voice AI, or speech technology.

• Hands-on experience converting self-serve users to paid plans using product usage data.

• Experience at an early-stage or Series A/B company as the sales motion scaled.

• A technical degree (CS, Engineering, Math, etc.) or a solutions engineering background.

Note: Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.

More Details

In-office policy: We’re an in-person team based out of offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore. We love being in the office, hanging out together, and learning from each other every day.

Visa sponsorship: We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case-by-case basis. However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can’t always guarantee success. Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.

We ship fast. All of our work is novel and cutting edge, and execution speed is paramount. We have a high bar, and we don’t sacrifice quality or design along the way.

We support each other. We have an open & inclusive culture that’s focused on giving everyone the resources they need to succeed.

Our Benefits (US Employees Only)

Compensation Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.

Health Insurance Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.

Parental Leave 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave

401(k)

Commuter Allowance A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.

Flexible PTO Take as much time as you need to recharge your batteries.

Meals & Snacks Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks, provided daily.

Your own personal Yoshi

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Cartesia is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.