Account Executive, Commercial - San Francisco

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · San Francisco, CA · Sales

This role is for a Commercial Account Executive at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding with AI. The primary responsibility is to drive revenue growth by building strategic relationships with customers, demonstrating how Cursor transforms developer productivity, and guiding them through evaluation and implementation. The role requires technical fluency and sales expertise to help companies reimagine software development with AI. The Account Executive will manage the full sales cycle, build pipelines, and influence the product roadmap with customer feedback.

What you'd actually do

  1. Win new business and drive revenue for Cursor. Find your way to the right people at prospective customers, educate them about AI-powered development, and help them succeed. You'll own the full sales cycle, from first call to close
  2. Become a trusted product expert; guide prospects through trials, evaluations, and rollouts
  3. Build and manage a healthy high velocity pipeline, meeting and exceeding quarterly targets
  4. Lead multi-threaded sales cycles across Engineering, Product, Security, Procurement, and Legal
  5. Develop executive relationships and day-to-day champions within each account

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of closing experience in tech sales
  • selling developer tools, technical SaaS, or emerging technologies
  • consistent track record of landing new logos and exceeding quota
  • managing a high velocity of deals
  • hunter mentality
  • proactive pipeline building
  • outbound prospecting
  • navigating complex sales cycles
  • selling to technical stakeholders
  • analytical approach to customer needs
  • creative, tactical follow-through
  • ability to bring order to chaos
  • roll up your sleeves mentality
  • excellent communication skills
  • ability to build trust across all levels of an organization

Nice to have

  • selling developer tools
  • selling technical SaaS
  • selling emerging technologies
  • passion for AI

What the JD emphasized

  • closing experience
  • exceeding quota
  • high velocity of deals
  • hunter
  • outbound prospecting
  • relentless follow-up
  • technical stakeholders
  • analytical approach
  • creative, tactical follow-through
  • order to chaos
  • roll up your sleeves
  • excellent communicator
  • build trust