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Senior Account Executive - USA

doinstruct · New York, NY · 4 mo ago
RemoteRemoteBusiness Development$200k–$300k/yrFull-time

What You’ll Do

  • Own the US sales motion end-to-end
  • Run the full sales cycle, prospecting to close, across inbound and outbound
  • Qualify, discover, demo, negotiate, and close complex B2B deals with US buyers
  • Build the US playbook
  • Develop and iterate messaging, ICP insights, and outbound approaches tailored to the US market
  • Pressure-test pricing, positioning, and value propositions with real customers
  • Be the voice of the US customer
  • Feed structured insights back to Product and Marketing
  • Highlight objections, feature gaps, buying dynamics, and competitive pressure early and clearly
  • Operate in ambiguity
  • Collaborate closely with founders and the central GTM team
  • Experiment with new motions, including events and field marketing, where it makes sense

Who You Are

  • 5–7 years of full-cycle B2B SaaS sales experience, ideally in early-stage or scaling startups
  • Proven track record selling into the US market and consistently hitting or exceeding quota
  • Strong consultative discovery skills, you can sell complexity without hiding behind slides
  • Comfortable creating structure where none exists
  • High ownership mindset, you don’t wait for playbooks, you write them
  • Fluent with modern sales tooling (HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, calling tools)
  • Direct, clear communicator who builds trust with senior US stakeholders
  • Significant experience selling into the food industry, with a strong preference for regulated, frontline-heavy environments

What Success Looks Like

  • A repeatable US sales motion exists, documented, tested, and improving
  • You consistently generate and close a qualified pipeline without founder dependency
  • Clear ICP and messaging hypotheses are validated or killed with data
  • Product and GTM teams actively use your customer feedback to refine strategy
  • US expansion looks like a growth lever, not a failed side project

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