Founding Account Executive

Flox; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Flox, a startup building developer environments, is hiring our founding Account Executive to own the full sales cycle from discovery to close. You’ll work directly with the Head of Business and alongside Solutions Engineering to drive enterprise adoption.

You’ll craft value-based proposals for engineering, security, and leadership, and shape the ICP, pipeline, and forecasting discipline for future sellers. This is a build role with NYC in-office expectations.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of B2B software sales.
• Experience selling a technical product to technical buyers.
• Ability to close six- and seven-figure deals.
• Credibility with staff engineers and technical buyers.
• Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed–Series B) or similar environment.
• Clear, direct communication across audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle from discovery to close.
• Run POCs with defined success criteria.
• Sell across platform engineering, security, and leadership.
• Develop value-based proposals and presentations.
• Land and expand Fortune 100 logos.
• Navigate enterprise procurement processes.
• Be the voice of the customer to product and engineering.
• Build the repeatable motion and forecasting discipline.

Skills

B2B software sales

Technical sales

Enterprise deals

Customer facing

Forecasting

Communication

Action oriented

Tools

CRM

Salesforce

Job description

Location: NYC in-office

Employment type: Full-Time

Reports to: Head of Business

Travel: up to 30%

About Flox

Flox is a Series B startup rethinking how developers build, ship, and reproduce software environments. We're backed by top US VCs and already running in production at Fortune 100 companies. Under the hood we're built on Nix, one of the largest open-source projects in the world, and our job is to turn that power into something every engineering team can pick up and use on day one. We ship fast, work in the open, and believe the best technical arguments are the ones you can demo.

The role

We're hiring our founding Account Executive to convert strong inbound and enterprise adoption. You'll be our first dedicated seller, working directly with the Head of Business and alongside Solutions Engineering to own the full sales cycle from discovery to close. This is a build role: you'll write the playbook, sharpen our ICP, and lay the pipeline and forecasting discipline that the next sellers will run on. You're equally comfortable sitting across from a staff engineer at a Fortune 5 company and walking a VP of Platform or a CISO through business value in the same meeting.

What you'll do

• Own the full cycle. Work our strong inbound plus targeted outbound lead flow; run discovery, orchestrate technical evaluations with our Solutions Engineers, and close, from first touch to signed contract and clean handoff.

• Run POCs to a decision. Scope proofs of concept with defined success criteria and a clear path to purchase; keep multiple enterprise evaluations moving in parallel without dropping threads.

• Sell across three audiences. Build tailored narratives for platform engineering, security, and leadership, and connect Flox to the tools customers already run (containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud infra).

• Develop value based proposals. Build outcome-based proposals and presentations quantified against executive and organizational metrics.

• Land and expand Fortune 100 logos. Win lighthouse accounts that become references, then grow them into larger deployments.

• Navigate enterprise procurement. Multi-stakeholder buying committees, security review, and compliance, especially in financial services and technology.

• Be the voice of the customer. Feed structured field signal back to product and engineering to shape the roadmap.

• Build the foundation. CRM hygiene, forecasting, sequences, pricing experiments, and the repeatable motion, the artifacts that make the next deal easier than the last.

What we're looking for

• 6–10+ years of B2B software sales, with a track record of selling a technical product to technical buyers, ideally developer tools, infrastructure, or dev-experience platforms.

• Consistent quota overachievement, including complex six- and seven-figure deals with multi-threaded enterprise buying committees.

• Enough technical fluency to earn credibility with staff engineers: you can hold a conversation about containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure, and place Flox precisely in a customer's existing stack.

• A builder's instinct and comfort with ambiguity, prior experience at an early-stage startup (Seed–Series B), or genuine hunger to be early and shape a function rather than operate inside a finished one.

• Clear, direct communication: you can explain a difficult concept to an engineer and a VP in the same breath and adjust on the fly.

• Bias for action and execution

Nice to have

• Experience converting bottoms-up open-source or PLG adoption into paid enterprise contracts.

• Familiarity with Nix, virtual environments, or dev containers, or real curiosity to go deep on it.

• Background selling into financial services or technology.