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Enterprise Account Executive
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Cresta is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to lead complex sales cycles for its AI-powered customer experience platform. The role focuses on winning large ARR opportunities with Fortune 1000 buyers, developing executive relationships, and positioning technical, contractual, and financial value. The successful candidate will own prospecting, presentations, proposals, negotiations, and closing while coordinating with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering. This is a quota-carrying enterprise SaaS sales position for an experienced seller who can navigate multi-stakeholder buying processes and travel as needed.
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I begin with a stakeholder map and mutual action plan that identifies decision-makers, champions, technical evaluators, procurement, and legal. I tailor value messages to each group, maintain clear next steps, and regularly validate decision criteria, timeline, and business case.
I would start by understanding the leader's priorities around customer experience, revenue performance, agent effectiveness, and operational efficiency. I would connect Cresta's conversational AI, agent augmentation, and conversation intelligence capabilities to measurable outcomes, supported by a tailored use case and ROI framework.
I quantify the customer's current-state costs and revenue opportunities, agree on the assumptions with relevant stakeholders, and model the impact of the solution. I then present a clear financial case that includes expected value, implementation considerations, risks, and success metrics.
I diagnose whether the blockage is commercial, legal, security, or priority-related and engage the right internal and customer stakeholders. I keep executive sponsors informed, establish a path to resolution with dates and owners, and protect deal momentum by continuing to reinforce the agreed business value.
I prioritize accounts based on fit, urgency, and potential value, then research their strategic initiatives and likely pain points. I use targeted multithreaded outreach, partner with marketing on relevant campaigns, and maintain disciplined account plans and activity cadences to generate qualified opportunities.
About this role.
Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.
Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google’s Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.
Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.
Location: East Coast/Midwest, Remote
About the role:
As an Enterprise Account Executive you will focus on Large ARR deals. You’ll identify and articulate how Cresta can unlock significant value for our customers, build relationships with key executives and evangelize cutting edge AI technology. At a growing startup, you’ll have the opportunity to be apart of a fast growing exciting space that we are leading the charge on and help build an amazing sales culture.
Responsibilities:
- Own the sales experience while building and managing relationships with key decision-makers and executives at Fortune 1000 companies
- Run complex sales cycles from initial contact to close
- Prospect for new clients, design product presentations and business cases, develop and deliver proposals, negotiate and close contracts
- Develop a command of the Cresta product, the Contact Center market, our unique competitive differentiators, and our customers’ needs
- Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Customer Success and Engineering to deliver an exceptional customer experience
- Hit your number
Qualifications We Value:
- 5+ years of SaaS software sales experience at an enterprise level
- Experience negotiating, structuring and executing complex enterprise-level agreements
- Prior experience leading cross-functional teams through large deal close processes
- Ability to articulate contractual, technical, and financial value points to customers, including executives
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience presenting to C-level executives
- Ability to travel
Perks & Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
- Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it
- Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
- Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
- Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
- Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
- In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees
Compensation at Cresta
Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.
The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.
This role is variable target compensation eligible. There is potential to exceed target earnings when goals are surpassed.
OTE Range: $240,000–$300,000 + Offers Equity
Our use of AI in recruiting: We may use AI tools in our recruiting process, which require human review and oversight. If you have questions about our use of AI or wish to opt out, please contact recruiting@cresta.ai (if you are opting out, please use the subject ‘Opt-Out’ in your email).
Recording & AI transcription: We do not authorize candidates to record or use AI transcription of any interview by phone, notetaker app, AI glasses, or other device. Candidates may request an exception or accommodation for review during the interview process as needed.
Recruiting impersonation scams: We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates’ personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.
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