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Founding Account Executive, New Business @ Clark

New York CityOnsiteFull-timePosted 21 days ago

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About this role

About ClarkClark is building the trust infrastructure for the AI economy.

We're starting with audit and accounting workflows—high-trust environments where reliability, accuracy, and security matter as much as productivity. Our platform helps firms automate complex audit workflows, deploy AI safely, and modernize how audit teams operate.

The RoleWe are hiring Account Executives focused on new business acquisition.

This role completes Clark's first new-business closing pod alongside existing sales leadership. You will own new customer acquisition, run consultative sales cycles with accounting firms, and help build the repeatable motion for selling AI-powered audit transformation.

This role will help convert market interest into high-quality customers while preserving strong implementation fit. The goal is not just to close deals, but to close the right customers who can successfully adopt and expand with Clark.

What You'll DoOwn new business sales cycles from discovery through close

Run consultative discovery with audit partners, managing partners, and firm leaders

Partner with SDRs on pipeline generation and qualification

Partner with Audit Engineers on workflow-specific demos and customer conversations

Build clear business cases around productivity, quality, and AI adoption

Manage proposals, negotiation, forecasting, and CRM hygiene

Help develop sales playbooks, messaging, and repeatable discovery processes

Who You Are4+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience

Strong new business closing experience

Excellent discovery and consultative selling skills

Comfortable selling to conservative or trust-sensitive buyers

Strong written and verbal communication

High ownership and urgency

Able to operate in a startup sales environment without a fully built sales machine

BonusExperience selling to accounting firms, financial services, compliance, legal, healthcare, or other professional services buyers

Experience with vertical SaaS or workflow automation

Experience selling AI-native products

Experience building early sales playbooks

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