Account Executive

About Builder.ai

We’re on a mission to make app building so easy everyone can do it – regardless of their background, tech knowledge or budget. We’ve already helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses and even global brands, like the BBC, Makro and Pepsi achieve their software goals and we’ve only just started.

Builder.ai was voted as one of 2023’s ‘Most Innovative Companies in AI’ by Fast Company, and won Europas 2022 ‘Scaleup of the Year’. Our team has grown to over 800 people across the world and our recent announcement of $250m Series D funding (and partnership with Microsoft) means there’s never been a more exciting time to become a Builder.

Life at Builder.ai

At Builder.ai we encourage you to experiment! Each role at Builder has unlimited opportunities to learn, progress and challenge the status quo. We want you to help us become even better at supporting our customers and take AI app building to new heights.

Our global team is diverse, collaborative and exceptionally talented. We hire people for their differences but all unite with our shared belief in Builder’s HEARTT values: (Heart, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Respect, Trust and Transparency) and a let’s-get-stuff-done attitude.

In return for your skills and commitment, we offer a range of great perks, from hybrid working and a variable annual bonus, to employee stock options, generous paid leave, and trips abroad #WhatWillYouBuild

About the role

We are looking for a bright Account Executive to deliver impactful and pioneering results!

As an Account Executive with Builder.ai, you’ll be focusing on a wide range of companies looking to embrace digital transformation in order to stay relevant to their customers, and most importantly keep their business growing.

You’ll have the chance to work across some of the best and most exciting organisations in retail, media, healthcare, financial services and pharmaceutical companies to support their online growth. On a day-to-day basis, you will drive the strategy and lead the sales cycle workstreams, with the support of hardworking and friendly cross-functional teams made up of Product and Delivery experts.

Why you should join

At Builder.ai we do things differently – this isn’t just any software sales role. As an AE you will become a pioneer in business transformations, and have a voice at the decision-making table. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive company culture, so we always encourage candidates of any sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, or disability status to apply to our open roles. We are more interested in your mindset than your skillset! We want to help you on your career journey, so even if you are not completely sure you meet all the job criteria, but love the sound of the role - get in touch anyway!

You'll be responsible for

  • Completing Builder’s in-depth onboarding and sales training to become an expert in Builder’s messaging, products and services!
  • Managing the complete sales cycles often presenting to C-level executives, Business leads and Department heads, the value of Builder.ai’s full suite of applications.
  • Developing your own territory plan and a pipeline that will fuel the ongoing growth of your business, enabling you to exceed your quarterly and annual sales quota.
  • Identifying and qualifying new opportunities, leveraging your own creativity.
  • Working in synergy across departments with our sales development, marketing, product and delivery teams.
  • Negotiating pricing and contractual terms as required to close that vital sale.
  • Accurately forecasting profitable and predictable territory performance and required resources.
  • Advocating for your customers’ implementations and maintaining customer satisfaction by ensuring the timely resolution of any customer service-related issues.

Requirements

  • You’ll have 5+ years of software sales experience managing complex sales cycles with demonstrated ownership of territory and account management, preferably within SaaS, No code/low code applications, CRM, business intelligence or other software solutions.
  • Growth mindset – willingness to try and to be ever-learning from mistakes to make improvements.
  • You’ll be able to align technology solutions to complex, multi-stakeholder business problems and utilise strategic thinking skills to solve customer problems.
  • With a track record of consistent over-achievement of quotas, and revenue goals and the ability to effectively identify and sell to senior executives within a target account.
  • Passion for building long-lasting customer relationships.
  • Technologically literate with business acumen to wow.
  • Focused on providing outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills.
  • A great plus, Strong computer skills including G-Suite, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Salesforce and any previous experience in working with alliance partnerships to drive enterprise sales. But we can always teach you the software we use!
  • Ability to work individually and collaboratively as a team in a fast-paced and fun environment.
  • Bachelor's degree (or any sales training methodologies).
  • And lastly, the ability to travel to our global events when required!

Benefits

  • Discretionary variable pay or commission scheme dependant on your role
  • Stock options in a $450 million funded Series D scale-up company
  • 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • 2 x Builder family days each year
  • Time off between Christmas and New Year
  • Generous Referral Bonus scheme
  • Pension contributions
  • Private Medical Insurance provided by AXA 
  • Private Dental Insurance provided by Bupa 
  • Access to our Perkbox

In everything we do, we believe in pushing the boundary of conventional thinking, to look at every problem differently and to move beyond tried and tested routes. We enable our customers to build without limitations and we encourage our people to do the same with our products, our culture, and their own limitless career paths.Our MissionWe make products that are simple to use, efficient, and transcend the need for traditional know-how empowering anyone to turn their ideas into a bespoke technology product. From launch to enterprise-level scale, we maximize every aspect of your project through the process. We take the idea in your head and turn it into the app in your hand. Our clients include the BBC, Virgin United, and many more.Our PeopleOur team started in 2012 out of New Delhi and has been growing, evolving, and disrupting ever since. We are now headquartered in Los Angeles in the Playa Vista neighborhood where Silicon Valley meets Southern California. What makes us different? It's our HEARTT. It's our heart, entrepreneurship, accountability, respect, trust, and transparency that empowers our people to push boundaries and change the future together.Our FounderOur Founder and Chief Wizard is Sachin Dev Duggal. Sachin has been an entrepreneur since age 15. He took his last company Nivio, an early cloud startup, to $100M in value before exiting. His accomplishments have been widely recognized: MIT Under 35 Indian Innovator of the Year, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist and the BBC Young Asian Achiever of the Year. Sachin also made history as one of the youngest attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He holds a degrees from Imperial College London and the Entrepreneurial Master’s Program from MIT. Our ProductsOur platform empowers anyone to create, operate and scale the lifecycle of digital projects. We do this by providing a suite of three products:Builder. Use Builder to build your next software project using an assembly-line platform implemented with the assistance of AI. Alongside a smart process, our Capacity Partner network of 32,000+ developers and creatives ensure your product launches under budget and within deadline. In fact, 90% of our projects are launched before deadline and under budget.BuilderCare. Let us take care of your projects’ necessary updates. BuilderCare guarantees your bespoke software stays up-to-date. This ensures products run smoothly post-launch, and continue after third-party libraries such as Facebook APIs are updated. CloudOps. Make the most of your cloud experience. CloudOps leverages AI and machine learning to effortlessly maintain the scale of your cloud infrastructure. Smart management reduces DevOps time operating and continuously improving your cloud infrastructure. Need a talented DevOps professional? We can provide DevOps assistance and billing starting by the minute. The result: a single, discounted bill alongside the world’s best talent.

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