Enterprise/Sr. Enterprise Account Executive

Runway Ml
New York, NY
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to experienced enterprise sales professionals working in AI and creative technology, with a track record of high-value deals and remote collaboration across North America.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a documented history of exceeding quota and earning President's Club recognition.
    — “A quota history above 100% you can walk through year by year, President's Club achievement
  • Sales professionals who have grown enterprise accounts significantly beyond renewal baselines.
    — “you have grown named accounts 2-3x, and renewals were the floor of that growth
  • Sellers comfortable with a pod structure sharing account plans and compensation with an Engagement Manager.
    — “You work in a pod with a dedicated Enterprise Engagement Manager on a shared book
  • Self-sufficient hunters who source most of their own pipeline in Fortune 500 environments.
    — “Sourced the majority of your own pipeline

Things to consider

  • The role requires managing 10-30 concurrent sales cycles annually with high deal values.
    — “Run 10-30 concurrent enterprise cycles a year at $100K - $1M+
  • Candidates must possess working AI fluency and ability to demo to skeptical enterprise buyers.
    — “Working AI fluency - you use generative tools yourself and can demo credibly
  • Forecasting discipline is critical, with staged exits and named next steps required.
    — “Forecast with the discipline of someone the CRO plans around
  • Remote work is permitted but preference is given to candidates in specific metropolitan areas.
    — “Open to hiring remote across North America - NYC, San Francisco, or Denver preferred

How to stand out

  • Showcase specific examples of multi-threaded relationships built across large enterprise functions.
    — “Build multi-threaded relationships across creative, marketing, technology, and procurement
  • Demonstrate command of MEDDPICC with clean CRM hygiene to validate pipeline accuracy.
    — “Command of MEDDPICC or equivalent, with the CRM hygiene to prove your pipeline is real
  • Highlight experience with consumption-based contracts and creative technology sales.
    — “Sold creative or content technology
  • Prepare to discuss how you architect multi-disciplinary commercial deals with C-Suite executives.
    — “knowing how to architect multi-disciplinary commercial deals, comfort regularly selling to C-Suite
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • manages enterprise cycles
  • builds multi-threaded relationships
Typical background
5+ years in enterprise software salesquota history

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise Software SalesAccount DevelopmentC-suite SellingDeal ArchitectureForecasting

Preferred

Creative Technology SalesConsumption-based Contracts

Stack & domain

MeddpiccCrmSalesLeadershipCommunicationStrategyEnterpriseAI

About the role

Original posting from Runway Ml via Ashby

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Open to hiring remote across North America - NYC, San Francisco, or Denver preferred.

You will carry a book of 10-30 accounts - $1B to $5B+ revenue companies. You work in a pod with a dedicated Enterprise Engagement Manager on a shared book: one account plan, shared customer outcomes, and comp designed to maximize earnings and customer value.

This is a role that requires a depth of expertise selling to Fortune 500 companies, knowing how to architect multi-disciplinary commercial deals, comfort regularly selling to C-Suite executives, and strategic GTM deal architecture.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Run 10-30 concurrent enterprise cycles a year at $100K - $1M+, from first outbound through production deployment
  • Build multi-threaded relationships across creative, marketing, technology, and procurement in $5B+ organizations
  • Win new logos in whitespace and source expansion in existing accounts
  • Work your pod plan with your Engagement Manager so consumption milestones land quickly
  • Forecast with the discipline of someone the CRO plans around: staged exits, named next steps, no happy ears

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • 5+ years of enterprise software sales with consistent six and seven-figure deals
  • A quota history above 100% you can walk through year by year, President's Club achievement, etc.
  • Demonstrated account development: you have grown named accounts 2-3x, and renewals were the floor of that growth
  • Command of MEDDPICC or equivalent, with the CRM hygiene to prove your pipeline is real
  • Working AI fluency - you use generative tools yourself and can demo credibly to a skeptical enterprise buyer

STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO HAVE

  • Sold creative or content technology
  • Sold consumption or usage-based contracts
  • Sourced the majority of your own pipeline

COMPENSATION

OTE $275K - $340K (50/50 base to variable). Offers equity.

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

WORKING AT RUNWAY

Great things come from great teams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&ab_channel=Runway We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

More about Runway

  • Universal World Simulator https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html
  • GWM-1 https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1
  • Gen-4.5 https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5
  • General World Models https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models
  • Robotics SDK https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section
  • Conversational Real-time Agents https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section
  • Runway Studios https://runwayml.com/studios

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work:

Crain's https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023 | InHerSight https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny | BuiltIn NYC https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work | INC https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024

Source: Runway Ml careers (Ashby)

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