Key Account Executive
5 months ago
Boston
Job DescriptionAbout Smartcat Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world's leading enterprises. We're on the frontier of an entirely new category: Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid workforces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren't generic copilots. They're fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one. Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you're launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale. Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with 130% year-over-year growth, we're scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us. Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time. Role Overview The Key Account Executive at Smartcat is a senior, revenue-owning role responsible for building multi-million ARR relationships across our highest-potential enterprise customers — and selectively, new enterprise logos with long-term expansion potential. This is not a passive account management role. It is a hunter–expander role that requires urgency, executive presence, commercial rigor, AI business fluency, and strong character. You will: • Expand existing enterprise customers into multi-department, multi-workflow, global relationships, • Own a select set of high-quality new logos and hunt them aggressively, • Lead executive-level conversations around AI value, governance, ROI, and outcomes, • Operate as a strategic revenue owner in close partnership with Field Delivery Engineers (FDE), Customer AI Engineers, Product, Marketing, and RevOps This role directly drives NRR, expansion ARR, and Smartcat's path to $100M+ ARR. Core Responsibilities1. Expansion Revenue Ownership & Selective New Logo Hunting • Own Expansion ARR and NRR across a defined portfolio of enterprise accounts, • Proactively identify and pursue:, • Upsell and cross-sell opportunities, • Package expansion and agent capability expansion, • New workflows, departments, business units, and geographies, • Own a select number of new enterprise logos where Smartcat sees long-term, durable ARR potential, • Build and execute a clear plan and path to multi-million ARR per account cluster • Getting out of coaches and low-level users, • Navigating complex enterprise organizations to reach real decision-makers, • Building multi-threaded relationships across:, • Business leaders, • Technical stakeholders, • Finance and procurement, • VP, SVP, and C-level executives, • Creating momentum where none exists This is not a caretaker role. It is a hunter role inside enterprise whitespace. 3. Executive-Level Commercial & Financial Acumen You are expected to: • Read and understand:, • Balance sheets, • Budget ownership and buying power, • Enterprise buying centers, • Build custom commercial proposals tied to:, • Business impact, • ROI and value realization, • Productivity, cost reduction, and risk mitigation, • Lead executive negotiations and stakeholder alignment • Leading deals through:, • Procurement, • Legal, • Security, • AI, data, and governance reviews, • Navigating centralized and regional buying committees, • Managing pricing, discounting, and contract negotiations, • Holding the line on value rather than defaulting to discounting, • Challenger, • Value-based selling, • MEDDPICC-driven qualification You must be comfortable leading executive conversations about: • The business value of AI, • AI impact on:, • Productivity, • Speed-to-market, • Cost efficiency, • Risk mitigation, • AI governance, trust, and responsible use, • Human-in-the-loop models and quality assurance, • Translating Smartcat's agentic platform and Multi-Agent Systems into measurable ROI You are not required to be technical-first, but you must be business-first and outcomes-driven. 7. Strategic + Urgent Execution Balance We expect someone who: • Is strategic and fast-moving, • Avoids analysis paralysis, • Maintains quarter-by-quarter execution discipline • Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE), • Customer AI Engineers, • Product and Solutions teams, • Collaborating deeply on scoped expansions, • Ensuring complexity is sold correctly, • Co-owning outcomes through delivery We explicitly hire for the principles of an Ideal Team Player, with special emphasis on humility as a force multiplier. Humility Is a Requirement At Smartcat, humility is not weakness. Humility is power under control. We expect people who are: • Confident without ego, • Secure enough to invite challenge, • Willing to be wrong, learn fast, and adapt, • Quick to share credit and slow to assign blame, • Hungry: Relentless about results, ownership, and momentum, • Smart: High emotional intelligence and organizational judgment You must be comfortable: 👉 Delivering uncomfortable truth internally and externally That includes: • Challenging customers when value is at risk, • Calling deal risk early, • Disqualifying weak opportunities, • Pushing back on misaligned scope or expectations In this role: • You own your forecast, • You call it straight, • You surface risk early, • You do not sandbag, • You bring rigor, judgment, and clarity, • Leadership brings coaching, support, and execution alignment, • Quotas and performance history will be validated, • References are required and will be checked, • We evaluate patterns over time, not one-off wins In return, we provide: • Direct access to leadership, • Hands-on coaching from a CRO who previously scaled a company to $150M+ ARR and a successful exit, • Deep cross-functional support across Product, FDE, CX, Marketing, and RevOps, • Passive account managers, • SKU or price-book sellers, • Reps uncomfortable with executives or procurement, • Ego-driven lone wolves, • "Wait-and-see" strategists, • Anyone seeking comfort over accountabilityWhy joining Smartcat might be your best move so far