Account Executive - North America - Strategic

ElevenLabs ElevenLabs · AI Frontier · United States · Revenue

This role is for an Account Executive focused on strategic accounts in North America for ElevenLabs, an AI research and product company. The role involves driving new business and expansion within complex enterprise organizations by building executive relationships and architecting custom solutions. The AE will act as a trusted advisor, translate field intelligence into product roadmap insights, and collaborate cross-functionally. While the company is AI-focused, this specific role is sales-oriented.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and grow a focused portfolio of strategic accounts, driving both net-new business and expansion
  2. Develop and execute multi-year account strategies across business units, geographies, and use cases
  3. Identify, scope, and close large, complex deals (multi-product, multi-region, custom solutions)
  4. Build deep, multi-threaded relationships across executive, product, engineering, and business stakeholders
  5. Act as a strategic advisor, educating on emerging trends and shaping customers’ long-term AI roadmap

Skills

Required

  • 6-10+ years of quota-carrying experience with a focus on strategic / enterprise accounts
  • Proven track record of closing and expanding seven-figure+ deals within named accounts
  • Experience leading complex, multi-threaded sales cycles across large organizations
  • Strong ability to drive land-and-expand motions and long-term account growth
  • Experience scoping consultative, custom deals that go beyond standard SKUs
  • Technical fluency - able to engage product and engineering leaders on APIs, integrations, and architecture
  • Executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and long-term strategy
  • Track record of translating customer needs into product feedback and roadmap influence
  • Creative, self-driven approach to outbound and pipeline generation
  • Comfortable operating in a high-growth, ambiguous environment, building playbooks from scratch
  • Willingness to travel for customer engagements (onsites, QBRs, executive meetings)
  • Strong bias toward action, ownership, and leveraging AI in day-to-day workflows

What the JD emphasized

  • quota-carrying experience
  • closing and expanding seven-figure+ deals
  • complex, multi-threaded sales cycles
  • land-and-expand motions
  • scoping consultative, custom deals
  • Technical fluency
  • Executive presence
  • translating customer needs into product feedback and roadmap influence
  • building playbooks from scratch