Account Executive (Mid-Market)
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Description
- As a Coast AE hire in New York City, you will roll up your sleeves to do the critical work of selling Coast’s product
- Coast is built to help businesses with fleets save time and money, and you will identify, develop, and close relationships with prospective clients
- At the same time, you’ll help build out the sales strategy and vision for our customer-first sales organization. Your contributions will directly drive revenue for Coast, while enabling the long term success of our future sales colleagues
- Own the entire customer sales cycle from prospect to close for businesses that operate between 50 and 1,000 vehicles
- Drive revenue for Coast through consultative, customer-first, selling
- Develop a sales pipeline through strategic outbound prospecting and closing large inbound leads
- Articulate the Coast value proposition to qualified decision makers, finance teams, and C-level executives
- Collaborate with marketing to create a holistic customer engagement strategy
- Share customer feedback with Coast colleagues in product, finance, and risk to improve the user experience
- Achieve and exceed sales targets and projected revenue goals
- Provide input into the sales organization strategy to help us scale exponentially
- Proactively develop recommendations to improve and optimize our sales engine
- In your first year, you’ll be successful if you:
- Build and convert a consistent pipeline through your own outbound effort, hitting and exceeding quota quarter after quarter
- Master platform selling by expanding relationships beyond the Fleet and Fuel Card to sell across Coast’s full product suite
- Become a trusted advisor to prospects and customers, translating deep product and market knowledge into consultative, customer-first conversations that build lasting trust
- Bring resilience and grit to the job, pushing through setbacks and objections to reliably deliver on your number
- Embrace Coast’s AI-native culture by using and building on AI tools and agents to make yourself and the broader sales org faster and sharper
- Partner effectively across departments, recognizing that your success (and Coast’s) depends on marketing, product, finance, and risk pulling together with Sales
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Meaningful stock options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Strong sales toolkit: you can prospect, qualify, demonstrate, negotiate, and close deals
- Bachelor’s degree from a four year university
- Comfort performing fast-paced, transactional, outbound and inbound sales
- Comfortable in ambiguity; you can build structure where none exists without losing momentum
- Familiarity with Fleet and Trade organizations is a bonus
- Experience in fintech, payments, B2B SaaS, or financial services preferred
- Minimum of 5+ years experience in B2B sales with 3+ years of full sales cycle experience as an AE
- AI-native mindset: you’re already using AI tools in your daily work and you’re excited to push further
- Proven track record at meeting and exceeding sales quotas
- Outstanding communication skills
- Capable of demonstrating value and handling objections for a financial technology product
- Positive attitude with a focus on having a growth mindset
- Willingness to build the ship and sail it at the same time as one of our very first sales hires
- Experience with outbound sales and lead generation using Salesforce, Outreach, and other key tools
- New York City based; able to be in-office 3–4 days per week
- Ability to identify and engage decision makers within a prospective client organization