Strategic Account Executive, Enterprise

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · San Francisco, CA · Sales

Enterprise Account Executive at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding with AI. This role involves owning the full sales cycle for large engineering organizations, driving adoption of Cursor, and working with various stakeholders to close deals. The position requires strong B2B sales experience, technical understanding, and the ability to build pipeline and manage complex sales processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a named territory of enterprise accounts, driving new logo acquisition and expansion revenue by running a disciplined, full-cycle sales process from prospecting through close
  2. Build and execute account strategies that map Cursor's capabilities to the technical and business priorities of engineering leaders, CTOs, and developer platform teams
  3. Partner closely with Sales Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to deliver compelling evaluations and ensure customers realize value quickly
  4. Develop and manage a healthy pipeline — generating opportunities through outbound prospecting, inbound follow-up, partner referrals, and your own network
  5. Navigate complex enterprise procurement processes, including security reviews, legal negotiations, and multi-stakeholder buying committees

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise B2B sales experience
  • Experience selling developer tools, infrastructure, or technical SaaS
  • Ability to navigate complex enterprise buying cycles
  • Pipeline management and forecasting
  • Technical product understanding
  • Outbound prospecting and pipeline generation
  • Negotiation skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in an early-stage, resource-constrained environment
  • Building process and playbooks

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience
  • comfortable navigating enterprise buying cycles
  • true hunter
  • strong command of pipeline management
  • energized by technical products
  • self-starter who thrives in an early-stage, resource-constrained environment