Founding Sales Leader, NYC
Lovable · Boston, MA · 3 wk ago
On-siteBusiness Development$100k/yrFull-time
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years in enterprise B2B sales, with 4+ years leadership experience in high-growth SaaS, developer platforms, or AI-adjacent technology
- Demonstrated ability to build pipeline and close in a new market or territory — without a pre-existing playbook
- Track record of consistent quota attainment (>100%) leading teams with ACV $100K+ deal sizes
- Genuine fluency with AI tools in your day-to-day workflow — not just awareness, actual practice
- Conviction that great enterprise sales is about creating new categories, not fitting into existing ones
- PREFERRED: Experience selling developer tools, infrastructure, or AI platforms to technical buyers (CTOs, VPs Eng, CPOs)
- PREFERRED: Existing network in the New York enterprise and startup ecosystem
What You'll Do
- Own the New York market end-to-end: pipeline generation, deal execution, and customer expansion
- Hire, develop, and coach the first cohort of AEs in market as the team scales
- Close and expand strategic accounts across financial services, media, healthcare, and enterprise technology: the industries that define New York's commercial landscape
- Build Lovable's presence in NYC through events, executive relationships, community, and partner co-selling
- Work directly with the Head of Global Sales to shape the enterprise playbook. Your patterns become the company's patterns
- Serve as a credible, technically fluent voice for Lovable with enterprise buyers from first call through multi-stakeholder procurement
Projects You'll Tackle First
- Build the NYC-based founding sales team
- Map and prioritize the NYC enterprise TAM; identify the first 20 accounts to target and build a pipe plan
- Run 5+ executive discovery sessions in your first 30 days to calibrate Lovable's positioning in this market
- Design the NYC GTM hub model: event strategy, partner relationships, AE hiring profile