Founding NYC Account Executive

Crane Venture Partners

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and commission

Equity in a high-growth start-up

Annual learning and development budget

Flexible PTO

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S. and Europe

Job summary

Crane Venture Partners is seeking a dedicated sales professional to expand its presence in New York City. This role involves owning the entire sales cycle and building a brand within the burgeoning AI sector.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong commercial intuition and a track record in B2B SaaS sales. Encord offers competitive compensation, equity opportunities, and a supportive team culture.

Qualifications

2-5 years of closing experience in B2B SaaS or technology sales.
Track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
Experience in managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.

Responsibilities

Own the full sales cycle from pipeline generation to close.
Build the brand and network in the New York market.
Sell to mid-market and enterprise teams building AI products.

Skills

Building markets

Sales strategy development

Relationship building

Technical product sales

Pipeline generation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CRM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot)

Job description

About us

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.

Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

The role

Encord is scaling rapidly, with strong product-market fit and a clear mandate to plant our flag in New York City. This is our first dedicated hire in the market — and the person who takes this role will be the founding presence that shapes how we show up on the East Coast.

You’ll be handed a genuinely compelling product with proven traction, a strong brand in AI circles, and the backing of a world-class team — then trusted to build from there. That means opening doors, winning deals, and laying the foundation for a team and office that grows around you.

Reporting directly to the Head of Sales and working closely with our founders, you'll take a category-defining AI infrastructure platform to market — selling into the most advanced AI teams in the world as we expand from core computer vision into Physical AI, one of the next major frontiers in AI.

This is a rare opportunity: traction is proven, the product is real, but the New York chapter hasn't been written yet. You'd be the one to write it.

What you’ll do

Own the full sales cycle end-to-end, from pipeline generation through close
Be Encord's first on-the-ground presence in New York — build our brand, network, and pipeline in the market from day one
Sell into sophisticated mid‑market and enterprise teams building frontier AI products
Drive high‑impact deals and help scale Encord through its next phase of growth
Work with customers solving real, complex problems across multimodal data, robotics, and physical systems
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to feed customer insight directly into the roadmap
Shape the playbook — help define how we sell, who we target, and how we win in this market
Lay the foundation for a NYC team

Who we're looking for

Excited by the idea of building something — not just hitting a number, but opening a market
Highly ambitious, competitive, and motivated by outsized ownership and impact
Entrepreneurial mindset — you move fast, figure things out, and don't wait to be told what to do
Strong commercial intuition and the ability to earn trust with senior technical and business stakeholders
Comfortable selling complex, technical products (or excited to ramp quickly in a deep technical domain)
Hungry to grow into a leadership role as the NYC team scales around you
A history of strong performance in high‑expectation environments — start‑up experience a strong plus

Experience requirements

2–5 years of closing experience in B2B SaaS or technology sales, with a track record of meeting or exceeding quota
Experience managing complex, multi‑stakeholder sales cycles with deal values of $50K+
Demonstrated ability to sell to technical buyers — including engineers, ML practitioners, or data scientists — and navigate to economic decision‑makers
Proven ability to self‑source pipeline and drive deals from first contact through close
Experience at a high‑growth start‑up or fast‑paced sales environment preferred
Familiarity with CRM tools (e.g. Salesforce, HubSpot) and structured sales methodologies (e.g. MEDDIC, SPICED, Challenger)
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Bonus: Experience selling developer tools, infrastructure, or technical platforms. Exposure to mid‑market or enterprise sales cycles. Start‑up experience in fast‑growth, execution‑heavy environments. Curiosity about AI, robotics, or the future of Physical AI

Why Encord