Key Account Executive
Listed on 2026-02-28
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Business
Business Development -
Sales
Business Development
Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises.
We’re on the frontier of an entirely new category:
Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid work forces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren’t generic copilots. They’re fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one.
Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you're launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale.
Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with 130% year-over-year growth, we’re scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us.
Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time.
Role OverviewThe Key Account Executive at Smartcat is a senior, revenue-owning role responsible for building multi-million ARR relationships across our highest-potential enterprise customers — and selectively, new enterprise logos with long-term expansion potential.
This is not a passive account management role.
It is a hunter–expander role that requires urgency, executive presence, commercial rigor, AI business fluency, and strong character.
You will:
- Expand existing enterprise customers into multi-department, multi-workflow, global relationships
- Own a select set of high-quality new logos and hunt them aggressively
- Lead executive-level conversations around AI value, governance, ROI, and outcomes
- Operate as a strategic revenue owner in close partnership with Field Delivery Engineers (FDE), Customer AI Engineers, Product, Marketing, and Rev Ops
This role directly drives NRR, expansion ARR, and Smartcat’s path to $100M+ ARR
.
1. Expansion Revenue Ownership & Selective New Logo Hunting
- Own Expansion ARR and NRR across a defined portfolio of enterprise accounts
- Proactively identify and pursue:
- Upsell and cross-sell opportunities
- Package expansion and agent capability expansion
- New workflows, departments, business units, and geographies
- Own a select number of new enterprise logos where Smartcat sees long-term, durable ARR potential
- Build and execute a clear plan and path to multi-million ARR per account cluster
- Treat accounts as businesses
, not books of business
This role requires urgency. We do not wait years for deals to happen.
2. True Enterprise Hunter MentalityYou must be comfortable:
- Getting out of coaches and low-level users
- Navigating complex enterprise organizations to reach real decision-makers
- Building multi-threaded relationships across:
- Business leaders
- Technical stakeholders
- Finance and procurement
- VP, SVP, and C-level executives
- Creating momentum where none exists
This is not a caretaker role.
It is a hunter role inside enterprise whitespace
.
You are expected to:
- Read and understand:
- Balance sheets
- Budget ownership and buying power
- Enterprise buying centers
- Build custom commercial proposals tied to:
- Business impact
- ROI and value realization
- Productivity, cost reduction, and risk mitigation
- Lead executive negotiations and stakeholder alignment
- Confidently run high-stakes conversations with senior executives across global organizations
You sell outcomes and impact
, not SKUs.
You must be highly comfortable:
- Leading deals through:
- Procurement
- Legal
- Security
- AI, data, and governance reviews
- Navigating centralized and regional buying committees
- Managing pricing, discounting, and contract negotiations
- Holding the line on value rather than defaulting to discounting
- Controlling the deal process — not being controlled by it
You are expected to be fluent across modern enterprise sales approaches, including:
- Value-based selling
- Consultative and executive narrative selling
No single framework is followed dogmatically.
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