Account Executive-startups, Greenfield (emea)

Vercel Vercel · Enterprise · United Kingdom · Remote · Account Executive

This role is for an Account Executive focused on startups, helping them adopt Vercel's platform for AI-native development. The role involves building relationships with founders and technical leaders, understanding their needs, identifying expansion opportunities, and guiding them in adopting AI-native architectures. The AE will leverage automation and AI to maximize impact and refine sales plays into repeatable playbooks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build trusted relationships with founders, developers, and technical leaders by quickly developing deep understanding of their architecture, use cases, and technical constraints
  2. Landing new logos, driving early activation, and making Vercel the default choice before competitors get in
  3. Driving first activation, earning trust fast, and positioning Vercel as the obvious default stack
  4. Focus on pipeline generation, outbound, identifying high-potential startups early
  5. Partner with founders and developers as they adopt AI-native features and architectures, helping them understand how Vercel’s Frontend Cloud fits into a rapidly evolving developer ecosystem and supports new workloads, performance requirements, and scaling patterns

Skills

Required

  • technical curiosity
  • commercial excellence
  • startup mindset
  • pattern recognition
  • founder empathy
  • ability to speak credibly to pre-seed through Series D companies
  • strong judgment
  • ownership
  • curiosity
  • learn complex technical products quickly
  • reasoning about how modern web and AI-native applications are built and scaled
  • speak comfortably with developers and founders
  • strong sales acumen
  • experience owning revenue outcomes
  • thoughtful, opinionated point of view on modern web infrastructure, frontend performance, and scaling tradeoffs
  • thrives in ambiguity
  • enjoys shaping how a team and motion evolves
  • energized by ownership, accountability

Nice to have

  • former founders
  • engineers
  • experienced go-to-market operators
  • builder
  • engineer

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native development
  • AI-native architectures
  • AI-native features