Strategic Account Executive, Life Sciences

at 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
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Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

About the role

You’ll be a Strategic AE selling Cursor to health verticals: life sciences, biotech, chemicals, and research-heavy enterprises. You’ll help platform and engineering leaders move faster while respecting validated environments, documentation needs, and strong governance expectations.

What you’ll do

  • Build and execute account plans across pharma/biotech/CROs/chemicals and adjacent platforms
  • Prospect into R&D engineering, platform teams, security, and IT leadership
  • Run discovery that connects developer productivity to R&D velocity, quality, and compliance
  • Lead POVs in real codebases; partner with Solutions Engineering on deployment constraints
  • Navigate procurement, security reviews, and enterprise contracting
  • Close and expand: pilot → standardization → broader rollouts across teams/sites
  • Codify repeatable motions for this vertical (playbooks, messaging, reference architectures)

You may be a fit if

  • 7+ years enterprise sales; experience in life sciences/biotech/regulated R&D is a plus
  • You can sell to technical buyers and communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong pipeline generation habits and disciplined forecasting
  • You're a true hunter - you proactively build pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, creative sourcing, and relentless follow-up, rather than relying on inbound demand
  • Builder mindset: you like creating the motion, not waiting for it