Founding Sales Leader, Nyc

Lovable Lovable · Coding AI · New York, NY · Sales

Founding Sales Leader for Lovable, an AI-adjacent platform company, to build and lead the enterprise sales motion in New York City. This role involves establishing the sales strategy, building a team, driving pipeline, closing large deals, and representing the company to technical buyers. Requires extensive enterprise B2B sales and leadership experience, with a strong understanding of developer platforms or AI-adjacent technologies, and fluency with AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the New York market end-to-end: pipeline generation, deal execution, and customer expansion
  2. Hire, develop, and coach the first cohort of AEs in market as the team scales
  3. Close and expand strategic accounts across financial services, media, healthcare, and enterprise technology: the industries that define New York's commercial landscape
  4. Build Lovable's presence in NYC through events, executive relationships, community, and partner co-selling
  5. Serve as a credible, technically fluent voice for Lovable with enterprise buyers from first call through multi-stakeholder procurement

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years in enterprise B2B sales
  • 4+ years leadership experience in high-growth SaaS, developer platforms, or AI-adjacent technology
  • Demonstrated ability to build pipeline and close in a new market or territory
  • Track record of consistent quota attainment (>100%) leading teams with ACV $100K+ deal sizes
  • Genuine fluency with AI tools in your day-to-day workflow
  • Conviction that great enterprise sales is about creating new categories
  • Ability to build Lovable's presence in NYC through events, executive relationships, community, and partner co-selling
  • Ability to serve as a credible, technically fluent voice for Lovable with enterprise buyers

Nice to have

  • Experience selling developer tools, infrastructure, or AI platforms to technical buyers (CTOs, VPs Eng, CPOs)
  • Existing network in the New York enterprise and startup ecosystem

What the JD emphasized

  • build the enterprise motion from zero
  • founding role
  • build pipeline and close in a new market or territory — without a pre-existing playbook
  • Genuine fluency with AI tools in your day-to-day workflow — not just awareness, actual practice