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Founding AE (Mid-Market)

full-time•New York

Summary

Location

New York

Type

full-time

Experience

2-5 years

Company links

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About this role

About Spur

Spur builds fundamental technology for the future of QA: autonomous browser agents that think, explore, validate, and self-heal like real users. We’re not another test tool — we’re reimagining how digital teams ship with confidence.

The market has responded loudly.
Top brands (Alo Yoga, Living Spaces, HelloFresh, Nextdoor, Abercrombie & Fitch, and more) are actively pulling us in. Inbound demand is exploding. Sales cycles are fast. And the product actually delivers — teams go live in days, not months.

We’re a small, elite team of builders from DeepMind, Figma, ex-founders and customers — shipping at a pace that big companies can’t touch.


About the Role

We’re hiring our first AE to build Spur’s revenue engine from the ground up — a true founding GTM role with massive ownership, fast impact, and a direct hand in shaping a category-defining AI company.

What Makes This Role Special

  • Real demand & fast momentum: We’re flooded with inbound from brands that needed Spur yesterday — you’ll spend far more time closing than prospecting.

  • Sell fundamental technology: Spur is 10× better than the status quo, proven in production, and loved by engineering and QA leaders. This isn’t feature selling — it’s evangelizing a new category in AI.

  • Fast, clean sales cycles: 4-8 week cycles, rapid pilots (1-2 week long), urgent pain points, and clear ROI make deals move.

  • Founder-level exposure: Work directly with the founders and early engineers in a zero-bureaucracy, high-speed environment.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Effectively prospect, develop, and close enterprise sales opportunities

  • Meet and exceed all quarterly and annual sales quotas

  • Generate leads from marketing events and conferences

  • Accurately forecast quarterly and monthly sales

  • Develop and manage pipeline activity and monitor sales activity against quota

  • Possess a full understanding of clients’ specific decision-making and purchasing process

  • Develop long-term relationships with clients and design account plans for new relationships

  • Responsible for navigating through an enterprise organization to leverage cross-sell and upsell opportunities

  • Use in-depth knowledge of industry trends in e-commerce to consult and support prospective customers

Your skills:

  • Extensive enterprise sales experience at a SaaS company

  • Proven track record selling enterprise solution into large/ complex accounts and over-achieving quarterly and annual sales targets

  • Experience consistently exceeding quota of $1 Million and more, with proven success in accurately forecasting targets, and achieving sales commits

  • Be a “hunter” and proven closer

  • Metrics driven: Know your numbers from top-of funnel to close rates throughout the sales funnel

  • Ability to hold your own in meetings with C-suite representatives from prospective partners and speak as a thought-leader and visionary in the learning space

  • Entrepreneurial drive and comfort working autonomously and as part of a team in ambiguous, quickly-changing environments

  • Outstanding ability to collaborate, understand, and empathize with others

  • Passion for education

Must Haves:

  • 2.5+ years of SaaS sales experience, with at least 1.5 of those years as a quota carrying AE/1 full, fully ramped year as a quota carrying AE

  • Self-driven and career-oriented. This is as early as it gets, and you won't have a big team around you to lean on. If the comraderie of a large sales team and the social elements of a large company drive you, we don't have those things (yet!).

  • Comfort with technical products and complex value propositions

  • Excellent written and verbal skills

  • Collaborative team player with a positive demeanor and high degree of accountability

  • Highly metrics oriented. We believe sales, marketing, and CS should all be closely aligned, and we don't believe in vanity metrics or goals.

  • Comfortable with rapid pace, change, and autonomy

NICE-TO-HAVES

  • Interested in potentially becoming a leader - we believe in promoting from within and strongly support career development

  • Experience at early-stage SaaS companies in particular

  • Sales operations proficiency

  • Familiarity with working with e-commerce brands, and understanding what makes them tick

What you'll do

  • The Founding AE will prospect, develop, and close enterprise sales opportunities while meeting and exceeding sales quotas. They will also manage pipeline activity and build long-term relationships with clients.

About Pear VC

Pear is an early-stage venture fund founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. Their co-founding managers have historically seeded very early stage tech start-ups such as Dropbox, Lending Club, Zoosk, Addepar, Path and many others. Pear VC is an early stage venture firm based in Menlo Park with offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park. We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed and partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies.

Our culture

  • Team-oriented environment
  • Strong work ethic
  • High attention to detail

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