Account Executive- Startups, Install Base

Vercel Vercel · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Account Executive

This role is for an Account Executive focused on startups at Vercel, helping them adopt and scale on the Vercel platform, particularly with AI-native architectures. The role involves building relationships with founders and technical leaders, identifying expansion opportunities, and leveraging automation and AI to maximize impact. It requires a blend of technical curiosity, commercial excellence, and a startup mindset.

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. Use customer signals and usage patterns to determine the right next play and focus time on the highest-leverage opportunities for adoption, expansion, or re-engagement
  3. Quarterback customers end-to-end, strategically deploying Sales Engineers, Developer Support Engineers, Product, and Support at the right moments to drive outcomes
  4. Own and grow a portfolio of startup customers by partnering with them as they move from early adoption to scale
  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
  • Sales acumen
  • Revenue outcomes
  • Understanding of modern web and AI-native applications
  • Ability to speak with developers and founders
  • Judgment
  • Ownership
  • Curiosity

Nice to have

  • Experience as a builder, founder, or engineer
  • Experience in a technical go-to-market role

What the JD emphasized

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