Account Executive

Trace

Account Executive responsible for signing new capture partners for Trace and refining messaging with company founders. Involved in the full-cycle partner acquisition role in physical AI.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Find and sign new capture partners (for example industrial and home services companies)
Own the relationship from first outreach through signed agreement
Run discovery, handle skepticism, and work directly with the founders to refine messaging, offers, and target segments
Build outbound pipeline via cold calls, email, and LinkedIn
Source and sign new capture partners, including industrial and home services companies, manufacturing sites, and property managers
Pitch Trace clearly and credibly to operators and owners
Maintain clean CRM hygiene with clear notes, stages, and next steps

Requirements

What you’ll need

1+ years in BDR, SDR, Account Executive or inside sales, with experience owning deals beyond initial qualification
Comfortable running full-cycle conversations with operators and decision makers
Strong phone presence and clear written communication
Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration
Organized and reliable with tight pipeline management
Collaborative, grounded working style with openness to feedback
No robotics background required, but curiosity and ability to learn quickly are essential.
Bonus points: Experience in selling to industrials, trades, logistics, or other real-world operators, Comfort structuring non-standard deals and partner incentives, Experience building outbound or partnerships motion at an early-stage company

Benefits

Comp & perks

A world-changing problem: Physical AI will reshape entire industries, but it cannot scale without real-world data. Trace is addressing one of the core constraints holding the field back.
Early but real traction: Active pilots with growing demand on both sides of the marketplace.
Experienced, tight-knit team: Ex founders, PhDs, and operators with a track record of building and scaling together.
Real ownership: This is early. Your work will materially shape the product, systems, and direction of the company.
Foundational platform: We are building core infrastructure that enables many future products and use cases as physical AI evolves.

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Hard Skills & Tools

BDRSDRAccount Executiveinside salespipeline managementcold callingemail outreachLinkedIn outreachCRM hygienedeal structuring

Soft Skills

communicationorganizationalcollaborativereliableopenness to feedbackcuriosityability to learn quicklycomfort with ambiguitystrong phone presencefast iteration