Senior Sales Account Executive

What You'll Do

• Own the Full Deal Life-Cycle from prospecting net new accounts, connecting with decision makers, proposal generation, handshake, and contract closure.
• Navigate buying organizations that include Chief Scientists, CTOs, CDOs, CIOs, procurement, and C-suite economic buyers simultaneously.
• Lead executive-level discovery that surfaces business problems quantum computing can address often before the buyer has framed the problem in quantum terms.
• Run focused, multi-stakeholder sales processes from first meeting through contract execution, typically 3–6 month cycles.
• Work collaboratively with key internal stakeholders, including product, pre-sales, finance, and legal.
• Express the Classiq value proposition and position the company as a long-term strategic partner, not a point solution, structuring deals for expansion from day one.
• Contribute to the development of territory strategy, vertical messaging, and competitive intelligence.
• Represent Classiq at key industry events (Q2B, IEEE Quantum Week, vertical-specific conferences) as a credible voice in the quantum ecosystem.
• Build and maintain an accurate pipeline with rigorous qualification discipline.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of enterprise and/or ecosystem software sales experience with a track record of closing deals.
• Above $200K ACV, demonstrated successful selling into Fortune 500 enterprises, with specific named logos and numbers you can reference.
• Experience selling in an emerging or pre-mainstream category where you had to create buyer understanding, not just respond to existing demand.
• Demonstrable ability to sell to technical buyers, engineers, scientists, or PhD-level decision-makers without losing credibility or speaking past them.
• Background in quantum computing, advanced simulation, EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence, Ansys), HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure during its pre-mainstream phase.
• Experience managing multi-stakeholder enterprise deals involving both technical champions and economic buyers at the VP/C-suite level.
• Comfort operating with a fast-evolving playbook.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfort within a highly agile and fast-moving startup environment.

Bonus Points

• Technical Degree and MBA preferred.
• Experience at a company that was building a new enterprise software category.
• Deep familiarity with at least one of our target verticals: chemicals & materials, advanced manufacturing, healthcare & life sciences, financial services, or aerospace & defense.
• Prior experience carrying a quota north of $2M ARR with documented attainment history.

Why Join Us

• Quantum computing is at the inflection point of its commercial ramp, and the sellers who join now will build the playbook rather than executing one that exists in rigid form.
• Classiq is well-positioned in the software layer of that market, and the work over the next few years will shape the company, the category, the industry, and the world.
• A product that is technically defensible and already trusted by enterprise buyers who have done serious diligence.
• A reference list of named logos that shortens every future sales conversation, the credibility compounding has begun.
• A leadership team and board that understand enterprise go-to-market and will invest in your success.
• A trajectory that creates a genuine path to sales leadership for someone who builds the engine here.