Founding Sales Account Executive, Virtual / Remote

Planet Green Search • Houston, TX

7d • Remote

About The Position

We are hiring a Founding Sales Account Executive to build the enterprise go-to-market motion for an early-stage cloud security company. This high-ownership, quota-carrying hunter role owns full-cycle enterprise sales, closes early strategic customers, and helps refine messaging and the 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 company’s platform removes excessive access and permissions by enforcing adaptive least-privilege boundaries for people, workloads, and AI agents through cloud-native controls. The company describes itself as well-funded, backed by top-tier investors, and led by founders who previously built and scaled a security company that was acquired for hundreds of millions.

The position is virtual/remote, with US-based candidates preferred and travel for customer meetings and events expected. The role offers competitive base pay and uncapped commission, meaningful early-stage equity, autonomy, and visibility.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience, with a 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.
• Experience joining or thriving in an early-stage or high-growth startup environment, ideally as an early Account Executive or founding sales hire.
• 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 able to bring structure to ambiguity, own outcomes, and build process while selling.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive presence.
• US-based preferred; travel for customer meetings and events expected.

Nice To Haves

• Existing network among CISOs, cloud security leaders, or in technology, finance, healthcare, or critical infrastructure.
• Experience selling against or alongside tools in cloud security, identity, or AI security.
• 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 in business and technical terms, including action over findings, access elimination versus detection, AI agent boundaries, and cloud-native enforcement.
• 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 pay and uncapped commission, with OTE structured for strong performers.
• Meaningful early-stage equity.
• High autonomy and visibility in a founding sales role.
• Fully virtual/remote work with flexibility to work from anywhere in the US.

What This Job Offers

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