Strategic Account Executive, High Tech

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · Remote · Sales

Strategic Account Executive, High Tech selling Cursor to high-tech companies. Focus on translating product value into engineering outcomes and scaling adoption across large developer organizations. Responsibilities include account planning, prospecting into technical leadership, leading evaluations, navigating enterprise requirements, and closing deals. Requires strong enterprise SaaS selling experience, understanding of developer tooling and SDLC, and a hunter mentality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and execute account plans across a focused set of high-tech strategic accounts
  2. Prospect into Engineering leadership, DevEx, Platform, and Security; generate pipeline
  3. Run structured discovery around SDLC friction, cycle time, reliability, and quality
  4. Lead POVs in real repos and workflows; partner with Solutions Engineering for rollout plans
  5. Navigate enterprise requirements (admin, policy, audit logs, identity, security review)

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years enterprise SaaS selling experience
  • sold to technical buyers
  • Strong grasp of developer tooling and the modern SDLC (IDE, CI/CD, code review, security)
  • hunter mentality
  • proactively build pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, creative sourcing, and relentless follow-up
  • run a tight, value-driven evaluation
  • Self-directed IC
  • enjoys ambiguity and building playbooks as you scale

What the JD emphasized

  • competitive evaluations
  • win competitive bakeoffs