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Posted on 2026/02/04

Enterprise Account Executive - AI Platform (Enterprise SaaS)

Purple Cow Recruiting

Seattle, WA, United States

Full-time

Qualifications

  • Large-company lifers (Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Adobe, etc.)
  • Point-solution or IT-only sellers
  • SDR, BDR, inside sales, pre-sales, or customer success backgrounds
  • Less than 7 years enterprise selling experience
  • Poor quota attainment history
  • Strategic or Enterprise AE / Account Director / RVP-level seller
  • Elite at executive discovery and translating priorities into funded use cases
  • Proven ability to sell horizontally across multiple business units
  • Background in modern enterprise SaaS platforms (not legacy tech)
  • 7+ years closing enterprise / strategic deals (typically 10–20 years total SaaS or enterprise tech experience)
  • Proven experience selling an AI platform, workflow automation, or multi-use-case enterprise platform
  • Demonstrated success selling to business leaders (not IT-led, not point solutions)
  • Experience owning large, complex accounts (5K+ employees or $1B+ revenue)
  • Over quota in at least 2 of the last 3 years
  • Strong career progression — no job hopping
  • Currently living in assigned territory
  • Bachelor’s degree required

Responsibilities

  • You will sell top-down to the C-suite, uncover funded enterprise priorities, and drive platform adoption across multiple business units
  • Own and close complex, enterprise-wide deals in 5,000+ employee or $1B+ organizations
  • Lead executive-level discovery with C-suite and senior business leaders
  • Build pipeline through disciplined prospecting, account mapping, and multi-threading
  • Drive top-down, executive-led sales cycles (not feature-driven selling)
  • Sell a horizontal platform with multiple use cases across functions and business units

Full Description

Description:Enterprise Account Executive – AI Platform (MULTIPLE LOCATIONS)

Seattle, Washington

Description

Enterprise Account Executive – AI Platform

100% Remote | Enterprise SaaS

LOCATIONS:

• Seattle

• Portland

• San Francisco

• San Diego

• Los Angeles

• Chicago

• No relo- must currently reside and have relationships in city*

This role sells an enterprise AI platform that operationalizes AIacross the business — not point solutions, not IT tools.

You will sell top-down to the C-suite, uncover funded enterprise priorities, and drive platform adoption across multiple business units.

This is a hard filter role.

If you don’t meet the metrics below, this is not a fit.

What You Will Do

• Own and close complex, enterprise-wide deals in 5,000+ employee or $1B+ organizations

• Lead executive-level discovery with C-suite and senior business leaders

• Build pipeline through disciplined prospecting, account mapping, and multi-threading

• Drive top-down, executive-led sales cycles (not feature-driven selling)

• Sell a horizontal platform with multiple use cases across functions and business units

Automatic Disqualifiers

• Large-company lifers (Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Adobe, etc.)

• Point-solution or IT-only sellers

• SDR, BDR, inside sales, pre-sales, or customer success backgrounds

• Less than 7 years enterprise selling experience

• Poor quota attainment history

Ideal Background

• Strategic or Enterprise AE / Account Director / RVP-level seller

• Elite at executive discovery and translating priorities into funded use cases

• Proven ability to sell horizontally across multiple business units

• Background in modern enterprise SaaS platforms (not legacy tech)

Requirements:

7+ years closing enterprise / strategic deals (typically 10–20 years total SaaS or enterprise tech experience)

• Proven experience selling an AI platform, workflow automation, or multi-use-case enterprise platform

• Demonstrated success selling to business leaders (not IT-led, not point solutions)

• Experience owning large, complex accounts (5K+ employees or $1B+ revenue)

• Over quota in at least 2 of the last 3 years • Strong career progression — no job hopping

• Currently living in assigned territory

• Bachelor’s degree required

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