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Founding Account Executive

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$100,000–$250,000 /yrPosted 18 days ago

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Required skills

  • Founding Account Executive
  • outbound
  • B2B
  • sales
  • CRM
  • AI
  • LLMs
  • funnel metrics
  • reply rate
  • meeting rate

Nice to have

  • hardware plus subscription

Role summary

Pocket is seeking its first Founding Account Executive to build and lead outbound sales efforts. This role is responsible for identifying target companies and individuals, crafting outreach strategies, executing sales cycles from discovery to closing, and developing the outbound playbook. The ideal candidate has prior experience building outbound sales from scratch, is proficient in B2B software sales, comfortable with AI-native tools, and data-minded regarding funnel performance. This is a hands-on position with significant autonomy and direct impact on company growth, offering a competitive compensation package including base, commission, and equity.

About the role

The first salesperson to go outbound at Pocket. B2B is already a 7-figure run rate, almost all of it inbound: companies where several people own a Pocket ask us for team plans. Nobody has gone out to find the next ones. You decide who to target, how to reach them and what to say, you sell, and you turn what works into the outbound playbook. You have a large user base to mine, segments that already convert, and a GTM ops person building the tooling next to you. This is a hands-on role: you write the emails, make the calls, run the demos and close.
What you'll own
Outbound from zero: target companies and people, messaging, sequences, offer Selling end to end: discovery, demos, pilots, negotiation, closing team plans of 10 to thousands of seats The outbound playbook: targeting, messaging, sequences, objections, pricing, handoffs, etc.
A clean pipeline in the CRM
Feedback to product and marketing: what buyers ask for, what stops them, what pricing works Your funnel numbers: reply rate, meeting rate, close rate, and what you change when they move What we're looking for You've built outbound before: picked the targets, written the messaging, closed the deals 1+ years selling B2B software or hardware You write emails people reply to AI-native: LLMs, enrichment and automations are how you work Data-minded: you know your funnel and act on it Fine with no playbook, a stack still being built, and decisions that are yours

Bonus points for

  • Selling hardware plus subscription
  • Building your own outbound stack

What we offer

  • The first sales seat in a fast-growing B2B function
  • A path to leading outbound as it scales
  • Direct impact on how the company grows, with direct founder access
  • High-trust, high-responsibility environment
  • Competitive base, commission on what you close, and equity

About Pocket

Pocket is a Y Combinator W26 company building a premium hardware plus software product in the AI voice recorder space. We are obsessed with quality and speed. We are scaling very fast in the US and now European markets and building a device experience that can become the category leader.

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