Senior Account Executive - Enterprise

About Pinecone:

Pinecone is the trusted AI knowledge company. Its trusted AI knowledge platform—including its Database, Nexus, and Marketplace products—power accurate, fast, and cost-effective AI applications for more than 10,000 customers and 1M developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. For more information, visit pinecone.io.

About the role/team:

We are hiring an experienced Enterprise Account Executive to support our growth into F500 and G2000 customers! Reporting directly into the Head of Global Sales, this person will play a critical role in the growth of Pinecone as we expand the power of knowledge retrieval and AI infrastructure for Agentic use cases across the world’s largest organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Owning a territory and quota of large Enterprises that you will prospect and break into to secure POCs and committed contractual relationships with.

• Managing inbound leads through the BDR, PLG, and MQL channels

• Lead all sales related activities through the various stages of the buying journey; in accordance to Pinecone’s defined sales process

• Selling and winning against our competitors

• Ensuring the customer is deployed successful and positioned for expansion

• Partnering cross-functionally with Sales Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Marketing

Successful Pinecone Account Executives have a high degree of technical knowledge, and are comfortable selling into developers and engineering leaders. They are excited about working in a startup environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and ready to build an amazing business that will change the infrastructure landscape.

Requirements:

• Experience in the infrastructure, data software, and genAI space is preferred

• Experience selling to developers and engineering leaders is a must

• Candidates should have a minimum 5-7 years experience as an Enterprise Account Executive, and must have direct experience with F500/G2000, closing net new logos

• A a consistent track record of performance above quota / top of peer group

• Start-up and early stage experience is preferred

• Pinecone is a hybrid working environment, but NY and SF-based candidates are preferred

Perks & Benefits:

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources

• 401(k) Plan

• Equity award

• Flexible time off

• Paid parental leave

• Annual Company Retreat

• WFH Equipment Stipend

All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.