Founding Account Executive

Maintouch: SEO + AI SEO Automation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based compensation

Opportunity to shape a growing team

Direct involvement with leadership

Job summary

A fast-growing marketing automation company in New York City is seeking an experienced Account Executive to lead the full sales cycle, from prospecting to closing deals. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in selling to startups or SMBs, and a genuine interest in AI's transformative role in marketing. You will build your own pipeline and directly contribute to significant revenue growth by closing high-impact deals. Autonomy and the opportunity to shape the company's sales strategy are key aspects of this role.

Qualifications

• Has sold into startups or SMBs and knows how to move fast.
• Proven closer with a track record of hitting quota.
• Comfortable sourcing own pipeline without BDR support.
• Curious about AI and its impact on marketing.
• Thrives in high-growth startup chaos.

Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing.
• Build pipeline through outbound and inbound efforts.
• Conduct product demos that resonate with clients.
• Document successful strategies and refine the sales process.
• Collaborate with the founder to enhance marketing and messaging.
• Provide customer insights to shape product direction.
• Close deals generating significant monthly revenue.

Skills

Sales experience with startups/SMBs

Proven closing track record

Pipeline sourcing

Curiosity about AI in marketing

Ability to adapt in fast-paced environments

Job description

Overview

Maintouch builds AI agents to automate the trillion-dollar marketing agency industry. We’ve grown insanely fast in the last 9 months (can share numbers privately), and power the growth systems for nearly 50+ of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Marketing is a series of micro-decisions based on responses to data. Maintouch connects to all your marketing data sources to plan and execute growth strategies like an expert would. I (founder) grew up working at my family’s marketing agency. We’re taking those learnings to automate all that work. Lean team of 8. Ex-founders and experts working in person in SoHo, NYC.

Why join?

• You\'re selling a product people genuinely love. Customers come in skeptical and leave telling their friends.
• We\'re transitioning out of founder-led sales. The motions are working, the pipeline is real, and now we need someone to own it and make it theirs.
• You\'re AE #3. Early enough to shape how we sell, late enough that you\'re not selling into the void. There\'s revenue, there\'s signal, there\'s momentum.
• Autonomy. This is a full cycle. You source your own leads, run your own deals, and close them. No handoffs, no BDR feeding you pipeline. You eat what you kill.
• 50/50 split. We believe in paying for performance, and we\'ve set comp to reflect that.
• Get to tell your grandkids you helped build a generation-defining company in the LLM boom.

What You'll Do

• Own the full sales cycle end-to-end. Prospecting, outreach, discovery, demo, negotiation, close. The whole thing is yours.
• Build pipeline from scratch. Cold outbound, warm inbound, creative angles — whatever it takes. You\'re not waiting around for leads to show up.
• Run demos that actually land. You\'ll understand the product deeply enough to show founders exactly how Maintouch solves their #1 problem.
• Help build the sales machine. Document what works, kill what doesn\'t. Turn scrappy founder-led selling into a repeatable, scalable motion.
• Work directly with the founder and marketing to sharpen positioning, refine ICP, and figure out what messaging converts.
• Talk to customers constantly. You\'re the closest person to the market. Feed insights back into product, marketing, and everything we do.
• Close deals that directly generate millions in pipeline a month. This isn\'t a "build relationships and check in quarterly" role. You will be closing a lot.

What We’re Looking For

• Has sold into startups or SMBs and knows how to move fast with founders who don\'t have time to waste.
• Proven closer. You have a track record of hitting and exceeding quota, and you can show it.
• Comfortable sourcing your own pipeline. You don\'t need a BDR team or a marketing machine to hit your number.
• Genuinely curious about AI and what it\'s doing to marketing. You don\'t need to be technical, but you need to get it and get excited about it.
• Absolute grinder.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
• Has worked at a high-growth startup and thrived in the chaos.

About The Process

We move fast: screener → behavioral → case study → in-person → offer. Start date ASAP. No remote. No students. If this sounds exciting, we’d love to chat.