Mid to senior

Hire an account executive

An AE owns a quota and runs full-cycle deals: discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation, close. The seat for software and services companies selling into SMB and mid-market.

Ours bring closing experience, strong English, and the cultural fluency to earn a buyer's trust in your market.

A day in the seat

What they do all day

Discovery and demo calls, proposals, negotiation, and a forecast that's updated before the weekly review, not during it.

What they produce

What lands on your side of the table

  • Closed deals against a quota

  • A forecast you can plan against

  • Proposals out inside 48 hours of a demo

  • Win/loss notes fed back to marketing

What they need from you

  • SDR or setter feeding the top of the funnel, or a warm inbound flow
  • A demo environment
  • Pricing authority inside a ceiling

How long until they're producing

Two to three months to full rate, depending on cycle length.

When this role is the wrong choice

  • The sale is a physical project with site scoping and procurement (that's a BDM)
  • No pipeline exists yet
Typical in-house year-one cost

$120,000 to $170,000

Salary, super and a recruiter fee in a capital-city market. What a seat costs through BEDA is shared on the first call.

Questions

Questions about hiring an account executive

  • Some. Most are far more productive when an SDR feeds them. We'll recommend the mix.
Next step

Get the number

Thirty minutes with Matt. Tell him what you sell and how many seats you're thinking about. He'll give you a figure, not a range.