Founding Account Executive

Lightfield

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 80,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful early equity

Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

3 weeks of PTO

11 paid company holidays

3 months of paid family leave

Wednesdays work from home

Regular team events and offsites

401k plan

Commuter and lunch stipend

Job summary

A leading CRM company is seeking a sales professional to drive growth by converting leads into significant deals with Series A/B startups. In this founding role, you will own the entire sales cycle, manage active accounts, and build a sales playbook. Ideal candidates will have experience in tech sales and proven success in closing deals ranging from $20K to $50K. The role offers a competitive salary, equity, and additional perks like health insurance and paid time off.

Qualifications

Experience in managing complete sales cycles, especially in tech-focused startups.
Proven track record of converting leads into significant deals.
Strong understanding of the sales needs of Series A/B startups.

Responsibilities

Own the full sales cycle, from discovery to closing deals.
Work on and prioritize existing pipeline of active accounts.
Shape and build the sales playbook for future team members.
Run effective pilots with clear success criteria.
Gather market feedback and provide insights for product improvement.

Skills

Sales Cycle Management

Account Prioritization

Pilot Execution

Market Insight Synthesis

Job description

About Lightfield

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks.

We’re rethinking CRM from first principles. Instead of forcing teams to maintain rigid systems, Lightfield learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing the insight that drives growth. We’re building the CRM platform we always wished existed: fast, intelligent, and genuinely helpful.

We are backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and our team previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. Before Tome, many of us worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce.

About the role

We've shipped a product that founders love, with nearly 2,000 companies signing up since our launch in November, and are now ready to build our first direct sales motion. Lightfield has strong product-led traction in self-serve—now we need someone who can turn that signal into $20K+ deals with Series A/B startups.

This is a founding role. You won't inherit a playbook or a team, but you will inherit real demand. We have a growing base of multi-seat accounts, active teams, and high-intent signals waiting to be worked. The pipeline is there; we need someone who can convert it. You'll mine our PLG data for high-potential accounts, layer in targeted outbound into VC-backed startups, and own the full sales cycle from first meeting through close.

You’ll report directly to the Head of GTM. In the near term, you’ll be the entire sales motion—writing talk tracks, building pilot frameworks, and closing deals. Over time, you’ll help define what the sales org looks like as we scale upmarket.

What you’ll do

Own the full sales cycle. Run discovery, demo, pilot, and close for $20K–$50K deals with 30 day cycles. Your buyers are VP Sales, RevOps leads, and technical founder-CEOs at 20–250 person startups.
Work the pipeline we already have—and build on top of it. We have hundreds of active accounts with team adoption, multi-seat usage, and CRM migration signals. You’ll enrich and prioritize that existing base, then layer in targeted outbound into Series A/B portfolios to build 3–4x pipeline coverage.
Shape the sales playbook. Build the pilot templates, mutual action plans, and collateral that become the foundation for the team that follows.
Run pilots that convert. Design and execute pilots with co-authored success criteria. Keep them tight—if pilots linger, deals die.
Be the market signal for the company. Synthesize what you hear from prospects—objections, competitive positioning, feature gaps—into actionable insights for product and GTM leadership.

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