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