Founding Sales Account Executive, Virtual / Remote

Planet Green Search • Chicago, IL

7d • Remote

About The Position

The Founding Sales Account Executive will help build the company’s enterprise go-to-market motion from the ground up. This high-ownership, quota-carrying hunter role owns full-cycle enterprise sales, closes early strategic customers, and helps refine the company’s messaging and sales playbook. The role works closely with the founding team, VP of Sales, Sales Engineering, and Product. It is suited to someone comfortable with ambiguity who has sold complex cybersecurity or cloud infrastructure platforms to CISOs and security leaders.

The position is virtual/remote, with US-based candidates preferred. Travel for customer meetings and events is expected. The role offers competitive base compensation with uncapped commission, meaningful early-stage equity, autonomy, visibility, and the opportunity to influence a differentiated product and emerging category.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience, with a track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota in complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals.
• Proven success selling cybersecurity, cloud security, identity/access, CNAPP/CSPM, or related infrastructure platforms to CISOs and technical security buyers.
• Strong consultative discovery skills and ability to connect technical capabilities to business risk, compliance pressure, and AI adoption challenges.
• Comfort engaging technical and executive audiences without relying entirely on a Sales Engineer.
• Self-starter who brings structure to ambiguity, owns outcomes, and is comfortable building process while selling.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive presence.

Nice To Haves

• Experience joining or thriving in an early-stage or high-growth startup, ideally as an early Account Executive or founding sales hire.
• Existing network among CISOs, cloud security leaders, or leaders in technology, finance, healthcare, or critical infrastructure.
• Experience selling against or alongside tools in the cloud security, identity, or AI security space.
• Channel, marketplace, or partner experience.
• Prior success selling a category-creating or highly differentiated platform.

Responsibilities

• Own a territory or named accounts and manage full-cycle enterprise sales from prospecting through close and handoff.
• Build pipeline through targeted outbound, events, partner activity, and inbound qualification.
• Lead discovery and multi-threaded engagement with CISOs, security architects, cloud/platform teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Explain the platform’s differentiation—including action over findings, access elimination versus detection, AI agent boundaries, and cloud-native enforcement—in business and technical terms.
• Run technical validation and proof-of-value cycles in partnership with Sales Engineering.
• Negotiate and close deals, contribute to forecasting accuracy, and maintain CRM hygiene.
• Capture field feedback to refine messaging, positioning, and the early sales process.
• Represent the company at industry events and help establish its presence in the US market.
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Customer Success as the team scales.

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation with uncapped commission and OTE structured for strong performers.
• Meaningful early-stage equity.
• High autonomy and visibility.
• Fully virtual/remote work with flexibility to work from anywhere in the US.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed