Account Executive, Kernel AI

• Entrepreneurial: creative, resourceful, generalist
• All-in: hard-working, excited to stretch yourself, willing to take out the trash
• Clear thinker, good writer: you can crisply articulate your ideas, goals, and plans and help our customers make sense of hairy consulting-like problems
• 3-7 years of experience
• At least 1 year consistently closing deals worth $50k+/year in a multi-stakeholder sales process, consistently hitting six- to seven-figure targets
• Ability to execute on a consultative, solutions-oriented, value-based selling methodology
• Track record of consistent over-achievement in past sales roles
• Ability to discuss technical concepts with prospective customers and translate requirements into a demonstrable product
• Comfort negotiating and navigating contracts, security and legal discussions without support
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills

Desirable

• We are looking for our first Account Executives. So far, all sales have been led by our Founder, making this a rare challenge
• We are currently booking more meetings than we can handle. You’ll immediately have a book of exceptional opportunities
• Our targets call for millions of additional ARR this year. We’ve already shown we can achieve a portion of that with one seller, a significant percentage of the remainder will come from you
• Hours - This will be an exciting but intense job. Kernel is growing extremely fast and hours can often be long. Many of our customers are on the West Coast, and meetings can be held late in the evening
• Working location - Minimum 4 days a week in the London office (most people do 5)
• You’ll manage complex sales cycles with some of the best mid-market and enterprise businesses out there (~200-8,000 employees), from mid-five through to six-figure deals
• Most opportunities will be sourced for you by the SDR team, however sourcing additional pipeline is expected
• You’ll collaborate with the wider team on GTM strategy as we expand our ICP & experiment in other verticals
• You’ll help to create our sales processes as you build them
• You’ll become the best person in the company at explaining & pitching the product
• You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and customer success, bringing in insights from across the company and performing an essential part of our product feedback loop