Deepgram

Strategic Account Executive (New York City)

New York City, NY, Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

The Strategic Account Executive will own and grow a portfolio of Fortune 500 accounts. This role involves building customer relationships, self-prospecting for new logos, and partnering with cross-functional teams to sell a Voice AI platform.

What you will do

  • Own and grow a portfolio of Fortune 500 accounts across the greater New York area
  • Build strong relationships with customers through regular in-person meetings and strategic engagement
  • Self-prospect to build a strong pipeline of new logos and exceed sales targets
  • Partner with Marketing, SDR, and Partner teams to generate meetings
  • Work closely with Sales Operations and Sales Engineering to ensure sales effectiveness
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and Deepgram products
  • Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
  • Partner with CSMs to identify expansion opportunities and support account management

Required qualifications

  • 7–12+ years of experience in a technical, full-cycle sales role
  • Proven experience managing complex enterprise or strategic new-business and expansion sales cycles
  • Experience selling into and navigating large, complex organizations, ideally Fortune 500 accounts
  • Experience building your own pipeline and closing new accounts
  • A track record of consistently exceeding sales targets
  • The ability and willingness to regularly meet customers in person throughout the greater New York area
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Empathy and a unique ability to understand customer needs
  • Exceptional organization and follow-up skills
  • The ability to drive a consistent and repeatable sales process

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Challenger or Triangle sales methodologies
  • Experience selling technical products to engineering, product, or other highly technical audiences

About the company

Deepgram is a research company that productizes voice AI. Their Voice Agent Platform provides speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech via cloud APIs or self-hosted deployments.