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We’ve made a ton of progress (5XX+ customers, $Xm ARR, profitable & cash-flow positive for 2yr+). Now, we’re seeking an additional AE to help us grow even faster.
You’ll own the day to day execution of our full sales cycle while working with our CEO/co-founder on all aspects of revenue - from defining ICPs and GTM strategy, to pricing details and contract terms. You’ll be the expert on our customers’ needs - our CTO will ask for your input when planning sprints and new features.
We expect you to ramp fast since you’re stepping-into a sales motion that’s working well. You’ll have an existing pipeline, refined collateral, meeting templates, a tidy CRM, and SMEs to run demos and answer domain-specific nuances. You’ll have strong inbound and referrals, which you’ll continue to convert at a high rate. You’ll build our outbound motion as we expand our product and enter new segments in construction.
To do all of this, you will need to be unique. While typical AEs execute existing playbooks, you will need to write a better one. You are not a coin-operated salesperson looking for a 9-to-5. You are a hungry, scrappy, and energetic AE, pumped to bet on a career-defining role at a fast-growing, early-stage startup. Your potential for impact will extend far beyond the ARR you close.
Early-stage, yet de-risked : we are a rare combo of being early stage (high upside) but lower risk (thousands of contractors using us, profitable + cash-flow positive for over a year, hockey-stick growth). You get the benefits of an early stage startup without the risk you’ll have at almost any other startup. You’ll have a ton of impact, work directly with our customers, and get to work on interesting technical challenges you won’t see at bigger companies. Although we’re early stage, we’ve eliminated key strategic risks you’ll face at other startups. Like an unproven product, lack of market validation, lack of revenue, over-reliance on VC funding, co-founder disputes. We’re all young and hungry. Our team is fully in-person, tenacious, and committed - most of us moved to SF from far away (Canada, SoCal, Texas, Virginia) specifically to build Agave from the ground up.
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Team is technical, diverse, young : you'll work with a formidable founding team that's experienced, intense, and ambitious. The cofounders worked together for 10 years, first at a startup that Amazon acquired, then at Amazon, and now at Agave. You'll learn a ton while having outsized ownership. You’ll have a front-row seat to the good and bad of building a company from the ground up.
Huge opportunity without direct competition : startups are incredibly hard, so you want to join one that has a unique advantage. You don’t want to spend years of your life on a company in a saturated market with tons of competition. We’re seizing an opportunity that’s massive (Construction is the world’s third-largest industry) but also overlooked by most people in startup land. Most who can solve this problem aren’t aware it exists or are too distracted by tech trends (blockchain, metaverse, LLMs, etc.) to notice. These talented folks get coaxed into building products that seem cool early on, but don’t solve durable problems or aren’t differentiated enough against their many competitors to be sustainable (e.g. lots of AI products), so they end-up not going anywhere or stagnating without a clear plan to grow profitably. As a result, we have a multi-year head start against potential competitors, increasing our odds of success significantly. We’re also backed by world-class investors (Accel, YC) and Construction insiders (Procore and Autodesk executives, founders of the largest construction tech companies like PlanGrid).
At each stage, we decide and update you within 24hrs:
Intro Screen (15min.) [Virtual]: informal chat for you to learn more about the role. We'll ask for details on your past roles and what you're looking for next. We want to know that you meet our basic requirements and can speak about your work clearly. You’re welcome to ask lots of questions about whether working at Agave makes sense for you.
Writing Exercise (30min.) [Virtual]: quick exercise where you draft a mock outbound sequence to maximize conversion rate to an intro Zoom call. We’ll ask you to share as much detail as possible about your approach and tools. Our goal is to confirm your written communication skills.
Experience Screen (45min.) [Virtual]: deeper dive into your sales experience with another Agave co-founder. We'll ask for details on your sales history and dig into 1-2 of your most challenging deals/sales projects to learn more about your background. You’ll have 5-10min at the end to ask us any questions you’d like.
Mock Sales Call (30min.) [Virtual]: mock sales call where an Agave co-founder plays a prospect, and you run a discovery call and drive next steps. We provide detailed directions in a Google doc and you spend ~3 hours preparing for the call.
On-site (60min. x 5 people) [In-Person in SF, we pay for the trip]: you'll interview with each co-founder and our lead dev. This will be a deeper dive into your experience, sales fluency, and overall fit. Each interview is 1hr: 45min for our questions and 15min for yours.
AI financial-operations software that connects construction systems and automates accounting workflows for contractors.
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Full-time
Entry · 2+ years experience
Remote
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