Director, Commercial Accounts

Figure AI Figure AI · Robotics · Commercial Operations

This role is for a Director of Commercial Accounts at Figure AI, a robotics company. The primary responsibilities include commercial sales, account management, building customer relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction, understanding customer needs, owning customer communication, achieving sales quotas, winning new customers, and growing sales into existing customers. The role requires understanding and effectively communicating highly technical robot development and deployment processes to customers, negotiating technical, legal, and business terms, and providing formal updates on customer programs. The position requires 10+ years in sales or account management, strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and client management skills, and the ability to understand technical robotic programs. Experience with legal contracts and technical negotiation, as well as an engineering or robotics background, are considered bonus qualifications. The company is based in San Jose, CA, and requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration, with occasional travel to customer sites in the U.S.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for all commercial sales and account management
  2. Responsible for winning new customers and growing sales into existing customers
  3. Must understand highly technical robot development and deployment process and communicate this effectively to customer
  4. Must be able to negotiate technical, legal, and business terms with customers on a regular basis
  5. Occasional travel to customer site

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years in sales or account management roles
  • Great communicator
  • Ability to understand and communicate details of highly technical robotic program to customer
  • Understands client management
  • Must have presentation skills
  • Ability to negotiate and be persuasive

Nice to have

  • Experience with legal contracts
  • Experience with technical negotiation
  • Engineering or robotics background

What the JD emphasized

  • Must understand highly technical robot development and deployment process and communicate this effectively to customer
  • Must be able to negotiate technical, legal, and business terms with customers on a regular basis