Founding Account Executive
Fundamental Research Labs
Sales & Business Development
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 10, 2025
Location
Menlo Park Office
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Business
About the Role
We’re looking for a founding Account Executive to lead enterprise sales for the world's first superhuman Excel agent: Shortcut.
You’ll partner closely with our Chief Business Officer and GTM team to manage high-impact customer relationships, close strategic deals, and lay the foundation for a scalable sales function.
We are a small, fast moving team. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves building relationships, and brings a builder’s mindset to process and pipeline.
What you'll do
Own enterprise sales cycles, building and landing relationships with the world's most sophisticated institutions, investment banks, hedge funds, and Fortune 500 finance teams
Refine Shortcut’s sales playbook, pipeline strategy, pricing, objection handling, contracting, etc
Provide insight to our engineering team, translating customer needs into product direction
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Build strategies + drive growth and retention through renewals, expansions, and upsells
Qualifications
Proven track record closing deals and managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles
Prior experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or growth equity, with direct exposure to deal execution and financial modeling
Deep understanding of core finance workflows
Early-stage experience: you’ve built or scaled sales processes from 0 → 1
Strong relationship instincts and the ability to earn trust quickly
Excitement for AI and its potential to transform the financial industry
What makes us interesting
Small, elite team of ex-founders, researchers from top AI Labs, top CS grads, and engineers from top companies
True ownership You will not be blocked by bureaucracy, shipping meaningful work within weeks rather than months
Serious momentum We're well-funded by top investors, moving fast, and focused on execution
What we do
Ship consumer products powered by cutting-edge AI research, and
Build infrastructure that facilitates research and product, and
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Innovate cutting-edge research that will open up new consumer product forms
The Details
Full-time, onsite role in Menlo Park
Startup hours apply
Generous salary, with additional benefits to be discussed during the hiring process