Commercial Account Executive

Langchain
New York, NY
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to sales professionals with SaaS or tech experience working in SMB and mid-market account expansion. Requires strategic outreach and collaboration across technical and customer success teams in New York or San Francisco.

Best fit for

  • Individuals who thrive in cross-functional environments with engineering and customer success teams
    — “Work alongside experienced sales, engineering, and customer success professionals
  • Professionals capable of translating technical product value into business outcomes for enterprise clients
    — “Helping technical teams at innovative companies discover, evaluate, and adopt LangChain's solutions

Things to consider

  • In-office presence may be required for meals and collaboration in US locations
    — “meals on in-office days in the US
  • Equity component implies long-term commitment to company growth trajectory
    — “meaningful equity, benefits, and perks

How to stand out

  • Quantify SMB/mid-market deal closures and highlight technical product knowledge in resume
    — “1+ year of experience in a closing role for SMB, commercial, and mid-market accounts
  • Demonstrate ability to bridge technical capabilities with business needs during interviews
    — “understanding their needs and how our products can help
  • Showcase problem-solving examples from previous roles that required resourcefulness
    — “Self-starter and resourceful; you find ways to solve problems and move things forward
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • supporting the full sales cycle
  • building relationships with prospects and customers
Typical background
3+ years of experience in sales or business development

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesBusiness DevelopmentCustomer Relationship Management

Preferred

AI TechnologyProduct Knowledge

Stack & domain

LeadershipCommunicationSalesBusiness Development

About the role

Original posting from Langchain via Ashby

ABOUT US

At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.

With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.

Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.

About LangChain

At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.

Today, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, and Agent Builder are used by teams shipping real AI products across startups and large enterprises. Millions of developers trust LangChain to power AI teams at companies like Replit, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, and 35% of the Fortune 500.

With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.

About the role:

Location: Hiring in San Francisco, New York

We're looking for a Commercial Account Executive to join our growing GTM team and help drive adoption of LangChain's products. In this role, you'll support the sales process by helping technical teams at innovative companies discover, evaluate, and adopt LangChain's solutions.

This is a great opportunity to learn and grow in a high-impact environment where you'll work alongside experienced sales, engineering, and customer success professionals. If you're eager to build relationships, learn about cutting-edge GenAI technology, and contribute to our go-to-market efforts, we'd love to hear from you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

  • Support the full sales cycle from initial outreach through close, with strong attention to follow-up and follow-through
  • Build relationships with prospects and customers, understanding their needs and how our products can help
  • Prospect strategically into SMB, mid-market, and small-enterprise accounts

How to be successful in this role:

  • 3+ years of experience in sales, business development, or a customer-facing role (SaaS or tech preferred)
  • 1+ year of experience in a closing role for SMB, commercial, and mid-market accounts
  • Strong track record of sourcing, qualifying, and closing outbound deals
  • Execution mindset: you excel in fast-paced environments and move with urgency
  • Curious and solution-oriented: you’re always finding ways to level-up your understanding of technology, your customer’s business, and your craft.
  • Self-starter and resourceful; you find ways to solve problems and move things forward

Compensation & Benefits:

  • We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. Benefits include things like medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, and life insurance. Actual compensation and offerings will vary based on role, level, and location. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.
  • Annual salary range: $220,000 OTE

Compensation Philosophy:

We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. Actual compensation and offerings will vary based on role, level, and location. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

BENEFITS

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.

Source: Langchain careers (Ashby)

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