Account Executive (English-speaking)
About this role
This founding Account Executive will lead fonio’s US go-to-market efforts, building early demand, closing the first customers, and establishing a repeatable sales motion alongside the founders and the Vienna team. This hands-on role is critical to proving product-market fit in the US and scaling fonio’s presence internationally.
What you'll do
- Drive the initial US launch by building localized landing pages, messaging, and basic tracking with marketing support.
- Win the first customers by running discovery calls, demos, and closing early deals.
- Turn early learnings into a repeatable sales motion and playbook for the US market.
- Build and activate local partners by identifying channels, pitching, and enabling co-selling.
- Own customer success for initial accounts: onboard, support, and capture feedback to improve product and positioning.
- Work closely with the founders and the Vienna team, including marketing and tech, to execute quickly.
- Scale the role over 6–12 months to become the main US owner and potentially hire and lead a local team.
What fonio is looking for
- Native English speaker.
- Ex-founder/operator or very strong experience in sales, business development, partnerships, or growth at a high-growth SaaS startup.
- Proven ability to plan strategically and deliver tactically—strong execution orientation.
- Ownership mentality, self-starter mindset, and clear communicator.
- Comfortable operating cross-functionally with marketing and engineering to launch and iterate.
- Willingness to work from Vienna for 3–6 months for onboarding and kickoff, with relocation or remote setup possible afterward.
Company at a glance
Fonio.ai is an Austrian startup that built a human-sounding telephone AI capable of autonomously handling calls. It is GDPR- and EU AI Act–compliant, uses third-party LLMs (OpenAI), serves 6,500+ customers and 6,000+ companies daily, and is rapidly growing.
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
Transparenz ist uns wichtig.
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