Founding Account Executive

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

Job summary

A tech startup harnessing generative AI in San Francisco seeks an Account Executive to drive sales and build the go-to-market engine. This role involves managing the entire sales cycle, generating leads, and refining sales strategies. Ideal candidates are self-starters with at least 5 years of enterprise software sales experience and a knack for navigating complex deals. Opportunity for growth into leadership roles exists as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mid-market or enterprise software sales, ideally at a B2B SaaS company.
• Experience owning complex deals end-to-end.
• Ability to thrive in early-stage environments.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery calls, product demos, and close deals end-to-end.
• Generate pipeline through outbound prospecting.
• Partner with engineering for smooth POC experiences.

Skills

Complex deal management

Pipeline building

Cross-functional collaboration

Self-starter attitude

Sales forecasting

Curiosity and creativity

Job description

About the role

At Onyx, we’re building the connective tissue between generative AI and the modern workplace, unlocking company-specific knowledge and making AI truly useful at work. We’re fortunate to have incredible customers using Onyx every day and inbound interest from world-class brands landing in our inbox weekly. Now, we’re ready to scale what’s working and go even bigger.

As our first Account Executive, you won’t just sell, you’ll help build our entire GTM engine. From refining our sales playbook to helping us define how we grow, your fingerprints will be all over our next chapter. There’s real opportunity here to grow into sales leadership as we scale.

About the Role

You’ll be the tip of the spear for our GTM efforts, working across the entire sales funnel while partnering closely with our founders and technical team. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves to build from scratch, and wants to shape how great sales is done at a startup.

In this role, you will:

• Own the Full Sales Cycle: Run discovery calls, product demos, pricing discussions, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and close deals end-to-end.

• Generate Pipeline: Work inbound leads while also building pipeline through outbound prospecting and creative channels.

• Navigate Complex Deals: Partner with prospects to handle security reviews, legal redlines, and procurement processes.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with engineering and product to ensure a smooth POC experience and customer handoff.

• Refine Our Sales Playbook: Track pipeline, update CRM, build forecasts, and help codify our most effective sales motions.

You’ll be successful if you…

• Have 5+ years of experience in mid-market or enterprise software sales, ideally at a B2B SaaS company.

• Have experience owning complex deals end-to-end, working with both technical stakeholders and executive buyers.

• Thrive in early-stage environments where you wear multiple hats and create structure as you go.

• Are a self-starter who doesn’t wait for someone to tell you what to do; you figure it out and make it better.

• Know how to prioritize, forecast, and manage pipeline like a pro.

• Bring curiosity, creativity, and grit to every step of the sales process.

Bonus Points

• You’ve worked at an early-stage startup and helped build GTM motions from the ground up.

• You’ve sold a technical product with a lot of surface area, think APIs, platforms, or deep integrations.

• You’ve sold SaaS productivity or knowledge management tools and understand that buyer ecosystem.

• You’re excited about AI, obsessed with product, and passionate about making work more seamless and intelligent.

About the interview

1. Intro Call (30 minutes)

2. Sales Process Review (30 minutes)

3. Mock Sales Call (30 minutes)

4. Onsite with Team (half day)

About Onyx

Onyx is the open source GenAI platform connected to your company’s docs, apps, and people. We ingest and sync from all sources of information (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.) to provide a centralized place for users to ask about anything. Imagine your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7!

We believe that every modern team will be adopting knowledge enhanced GenAI within the next 5 years and it is our goal to bring this technology to all the teams of the world.

We raised a $10M seed coming out of YCombinator, backed by Khosla Ventures (early/seed backers of OpenAI, Doordash, GitLab, etc.) and First Round Capital (Notion, Square, Roblox, etc.). Our customers include some of the best teams in the world like Netflix, Ramp, Applied Intuition and dozens of others. We also have incredible open source users like Roku, Zendesk, L3Harris and more.