19 days ago

Founding Account Executive

Natoma

Hybrid
Full Time
$150,000
Hybrid
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Job Overview

Job TitleFounding Account Executive
Job TypeFull Time
Offered Salary$150,000
LocationHybrid

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Job Description

About Natoma

At Natoma, we’re building the Hyper Intelligence layer—the secure foundation for the AI-native enterprise. Our platform enables organizations to safely connect AI systems and autonomous agents to their data, tools, and workflows with enterprise-grade control, governance, and observability. This empowers enterprises to unlock productivity, accelerate innovation, and fuel smarter decisions at scale. Natoma’s Managed MCP Platform removes barriers to adopting AI-native systems by handling identity, authorization, and context governance—all while preserving security and compliance. We’re early, ambitious, and scaling fast. As our first full-cycle sales hire, you’ll help define how Natoma brings transformative technology to the world’s largest organizations.

What You’ll Do

As a founding member of our Go-to-Market (GTM) team, you’ll be integral to defining and executing our commercial success.

  • Build Pipeline and Generate Demand: Identify and engage senior business and technical leaders at Fortune 500 and high-growth enterprises. Drive outbound prospecting, account research, and tailored outreach.
  • Lead the Full Sales Process: Qualify opportunities, run discovery conversations, manage demos, negotiate commercial terms, and close deals. Partner closely with Natoma’s founders, product, and engineering teams to align customer feedback with product strategy.
  • Evolve our Commercial Playbook: Shape our positioning, messaging, and sales motions based on real-world interactions and market insights. Develop repeatable strategies that lay the foundation for a scalable, enterprise-level GTM engine.
  • Represent Natoma Externally: Serve as a confident ambassador of Natoma at industry events, executive meetings, and analyst briefings.

Who You Are

We are looking for a foundational sales leader who possesses the following attributes:

  • A hunter at heart: You thrive on outbound pursuit, persistence, and creative strategies to break into new accounts.
  • Proven in early-stage sales: You have 4+ years of experience owning parts of or entire sales cycles in high-growth SaaS, infrastructure, or security-focused organizations.
  • Customer-centric and consultative: You are as comfortable speaking with technical teams as with executives—listening deeply and translating needs into value.
  • Clear, compelling communicator: Your messaging resonates across email, decks, demos, and executive presentations.
  • Product curiosity: You enjoy learning complex technology, especially in AI, security, and enterprise integrations, and explaining it clearly to customers.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience selling developer platforms, security, or enterprise infrastructure
  • Existing relationships within enterprise IT or AI adoption functions
  • Track record of closing six-figure deals in an early-stage environment
  • Familiarity with using AI tools to enhance prospecting and outreach

Why Natoma

At Natoma, you’ll join a small, high-impact team at the intersection of enterprise software and next-generation AI infrastructure. You’ll work closely with leaders experienced in building world-class platforms and will shape how Natoma scales its go-to-market engine.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Generous PTO and parental leave
  • Best-in-class tooling and support
  • Comprehensive health benefits

Key skills/competency

  • Account Executive
  • SaaS Sales
  • Enterprise Sales
  • Business Development
  • Sales Process
  • Pipeline Management
  • Negotiation
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Sales Strategy

Tags:

Account Executive
SaaS
Sales
Enterprise Sales
AI
Infrastructure
Security
Business Development
Startup
Founding Team

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How to Get Hired at Natoma

  • Tailor your resume: Highlight your 4+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience, especially in infrastructure or security, and any early-stage startup success. Quantify achievements with metrics like 'closed six-figure deals' or 'exceeded pipeline targets by X%'.
  • Showcase your hunter mentality: Emphasize your outbound prospecting, account research, and creative outreach strategies in your cover letter and during interviews. Discuss your consultative sales approach and ability to engage both technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate product curiosity: Prepare to discuss complex technologies like AI, security, and enterprise integrations. Articulate how you learn and explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Research Natoma's vision: Understand their 'Hyper Intelligence layer' and 'AI-native enterprise' mission. Be ready to discuss how you can contribute to shaping their GTM strategy and commercial playbook as a founding sales hire.
  • Prepare for sales scenarios: Anticipate questions about your full-cycle sales process, including qualification, discovery, negotiation, and closing. Be ready to share examples of how you've partnered with product and engineering teams.

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