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Founding Head of GTM

Waterstone Human Capital · United States · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteCustomer Service$200k–$250k/yrFull-time

What You'll Do

  • Build the company's commercial engine from scratch.
  • Define the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and overall go to market strategy.
  • Personally generate pipeline through outbound, partnerships, creative prospecting, and networking.
  • Own the full sales cycle, from discovery and demos through negotiation and close.
  • Help shape pricing, positioning, packaging, and category messaging.
  • Land lighthouse customers that become long term reference accounts.
  • Develop repeatable sales processes before hiring and leading the next generation of go to market talent.

What We're Looking For

  • Someone who has already built before, not someone who inherited a mature sales organization.
  • Ideal candidates have experience as a:
    • Founding Account Executive
    • First Revenue Hire
    • Founding Head of Sales
    • Early GTM Leader
    • Startup Founder who built commercial functions
  • Successful candidates will be able to clearly demonstrate examples of:
    • Building pipeline from nearly zero
    • Personally sourcing and closing enterprise customers
    • Selling emerging or technical products
    • Defining ICP and messaging from scratch
    • Creating repeatable go to market playbooks
    • Selling into enterprise marketing organizations, CMOs, Growth Leaders, Agencies, Publishers, or Performance Marketing teams

What We're Trying To Avoid

  • This is not the right fit for someone whose career has primarily been spent at large, mature organizations with established SDR teams, marketing engines, and inherited books of business.
  • We're looking for builders, not operators of an existing machine.

Compensation And Benefits

  • $200K to $250K base salary (depending on experience)
  • OTE of $285K to $350K
  • Performance incentive
  • Meaningful equity
  • Remote, West Coast preferred
  • Opportunity to build and lead the entire commercial organization

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