Strategic Account Executive, Life Sciences

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · Remote · Sales

Strategic Account Executive for Cursor, an AI-powered coding tool, focusing on the life sciences vertical. Responsibilities include account planning, prospecting, running discovery, leading POVs, navigating procurement, closing deals, and codifying repeatable motions for the vertical. Requires enterprise sales experience, ability to sell to technical buyers, strong pipeline generation, and a hunter mentality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and execute account plans across pharma/biotech/CROs/chemicals and adjacent platforms
  2. Prospect into R&D engineering, platform teams, security, and IT leadership
  3. Run discovery that connects developer productivity to R&D velocity, quality, and compliance
  4. Lead POVs in real codebases; partner with Solutions Engineering on deployment constraints
  5. Navigate procurement, security reviews, and enterprise contracting

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years enterprise sales
  • selling to technical buyers
  • clear communication with non-technical stakeholders
  • strong pipeline generation
  • disciplined forecasting
  • hunter mentality
  • outbound prospecting
  • relentless follow-up

Nice to have

  • experience in life sciences/biotech/regulated R&D

What the JD emphasized

  • respecting validated environments
  • documentation needs
  • strong governance expectations
  • compliance