
Founding Enterprise Account Executive
Keplar
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • Canada
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About the role
- Own the full cycle: prospect, source, qualify, and close new enterprise accounts.
- Lead with outbound prospecting and creative deal origination to generate pipeline.
- Build trusted relationships with senior decision-makers across marketing, product, insights, and innovation functions.
- Navigate complex enterprise buying processes, including procurement, legal, finance, and multiple stakeholder groups.
- Craft compelling ROI narratives and negotiate contracts that drive long-term customer partnerships.
- Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within strategic accounts.
- Partner with Customer Success/Engineering to ensure seamless onboarding, adoption, and long-term account health.
- Drive multi-threading and expansion into adjacent teams/functions.
- Help design and refine the sales playbook: messaging, outreach sequences, demo flows, ROI calculators, etc.
- Contribute to sales ops and forecasting discipline.
- Establish scalable processes that later AEs will adopt.
- Translate customer needs, objections, and buying signals into actionable feedback.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to shape roadmap priorities.
- Represent the voice of the customer inside the company.
Requirements
- 5+ years of quota-carrying AE experience in B2B SaaS, consistently exceeding targets.
- Proven ability to generate pipeline through outbound efforts and network-driven selling.
- Track record of closing mid-market and enterprise deals ($50k–$250k+ ACV).
- Experience managing complex multi-stakeholder deals and expanding existing accounts.
- Strong storytelling, executive presence, and consultative selling skills.
- High energy, builder mindset, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Background selling into marketing, product, insights, or innovation teams is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Explosive growth: We’re seeing traction across mid-market and enterprise, including six-figure deals and high-velocity sales cycles.
- Product-market fit: We close at a high rate, and most deals are driven by real customer pain—meaning we rarely compete on price.
- A viral product: Insights are easy to share across entire organizations, creating a natural product-led growth loop.
- Elite team: Our founding team comes from Research at Google, Engineering at Meta and Amazon, and growth at Samsara — we have deep expertise scaling enterprise and product-led SaaS companies.
- Massive market: The customer understanding market is huge, with growing demand for tools that help run end-to-end workflows and deliver high quality customer insights with speed and scale.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
B2B SaaSquota-carrying AE experiencepipeline generationoutbound prospectingcontract negotiationupsell and cross-sellsales playbook designsales opsforecasting
Soft Skills
relationship buildingstorytellingexecutive presenceconsultative sellinghigh energybuilder mindsetcomfort with ambiguity