Account Executive - Startups
Required skills
- San Francisco
- New York City
- closing experience
- sales
- account executive
- pipeline
- discovery
- consultative selling
- feedback
- communication skills
Nice to have
- founders
- business owners
- finance leaders
- finance stack
- operational needs
- financial tools
Role summary
Mercury is seeking a driven Account Executive to expand its customer base, focusing on founders and business owners. This role involves managing the end-to-end sales process, building outbound pipelines, and guiding clients to financial tools. The AE will deeply understand client needs, identify pain points, and simplify migration to Mercury. Key responsibilities include managing high-velocity sales cycles, collaborating with internal teams, and translating customer feedback into product insights. The ideal candidate has 1+ year of closing experience, strong pipeline management and consultative selling skills, and a passion for fintech.
At Mercury, building our customer base has been a wild and exciting adventure—and we’re just getting started. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a thoughtful, driven Account Executive to help more founders and business owners discover and thrive with Mercury.
Over the past two years, we've significantly expanded our startup customer base and we’re continuing on that journey to support even more startups and teams on Mercury. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with founders and finance leaders helping them shape the future of their finance stack with Mercury at the center. You’ll uncover pain points tied to current operations, run point on complex evaluations with multiple-products, and simplify the migration process across their full-stack into Mercury.
As a Startups Account Executive, you’ll work directly with founders, business owners, and finance teams to deeply understand their operational needs and guide them to the right financial tools. You’ll immerse yourself in their ecosystems and uncover pain points to help them build great businesses with Mercury.
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*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.
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Total RewardsThe total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:$134,600—$168,200 USDUS employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:$121,100—$151,400 USDSimilar roles
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