Account Executive - US
Neural Concept · Jersey City, NJ · 2 mo ago
HybridFull-time
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Account Executive to develop strategic customers and prospects, establishing Engineering AI as a new standard for product development. You will own the full enterprise sales cycle, from identifying prospects to closing and expanding strategic customers.
Responsibilities
- Build and execute a territory and account strategy for selected engineering-driven companies.
- Generate new opportunities through targeted prospecting, executive outreach, events, and partners.
- Develop strong relationships with customer stakeholders in engineering and IT.
- Own the complete sales process from discovery and qualification through negotiation and closing.
- Create executive sponsors across customer organizations.
- Create compelling business cases linked to shorter development cycles, reduced effort, and improved product performance.
- Lead commercial proposals, negotiations, and procurement processes.
- Cook up and coordinate with Solution Engineering, Product, and Forward Deployed Engineers around strategic opportunities.
- Maintain a healthy pipeline, accurate forecasts, and disciplined opportunity management.
- Represent Neural Concept at customer meetings, executive briefings, and industry events.
Requirements
- At least five years of successful sales experience in enterprise software.
- Broad knowledge of CAE, CAD, PLM, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure is an important plus.
- Experience with AI is particularly relevant.
- Confidence selling business transformation and measurable value to senior executives.
- Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
- Demonstrated success closing large software agreements and a consistent record of achieving or exceeding sales targets.
- Strong new-business development skills.
- Strong account planning, qualification, negotiation, and forecasting skills.
- Professional fluency in English.
- Willingness to travel regularly.
Qualifications
- You are an enterprise seller who combines commercial drive, strategic thinking, and enough technical understanding to build credibility with engineering-led customers.
- You are comfortable creating opportunities in an emerging market, helping customers move from technical interest and pilot projects to enterprise adoption.
Skills
- Driven and resilient.
- Strategic and consultative.
- Tech-savvy and curious.
- Credible at executive level.
- Relationship-oriented.
- Collaborative and accountable.
- Comfortable in a fast-growing scale-up environment.
Benefits
- The opportunity to shape a new category at the intersection of AI and engineering.
- A differentiated technology platform with significant customer impact.
- Exposure to leading global engineering and manufacturing companies.
- Meaningful ownership in a rapidly growing international company.
- Competitive compensation with performance-based upside.
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Strong opportunities for professional development and career progression.
Pay
Competitive compensation with performance-based upside.
Schedule
Hybrid working arrangements.