Founding Account Executive, AI Talent Placement

Founding Account Executive, AI Talent Placement

New York City

Pursuit is seeking an entrepreneurial, hands-on Founding Director of Sales for our AI Talent Placement team to manage and land placements of Pursuit's AI Trained builders into full-time roles at a wide range of employer accounts.

Reporting at first directly to the CEO, you'll own warm executive introductions end to end, from first conversation through a Builder starting work. You'll run consultative discovery to understand a company's business priorities, team gaps, and hiring constraints including the needs they haven't articulated. You'll translate Pursuit talent capabilities into concrete roles, use cases, and business outcomes tailored to each employer- especially when the opportunity is not immediately obvious.

The placement motion is still evolving, so you'll also be expected to learn quickly from the market and rapidly iterate to test and improve the approach over time. As a founding director of sales, you'll have the opportunity to help build from scratch our commercial infrastructure for landing AI-native business roles and help us achieve scale over the next 18 months.

Compensation is $170,000 base salary. On-target earnings of $275,000$300,000. Variable compensation is tied to two things: placements closed and how well you run the funnel pipeline coverage, stage discipline, conversion rates, and forecast accuracy.

You'll report to our CEO initially, and ultimately a VP of AI Talent Placement once that hire joins, targeted for December. You'll work alongside our training and program teams daily.

Full-time preferred. Hybrid, three days a week at our New York City HQ.

Benefits include 401(k) match, unlimited PTO plus organization-wide summer and winter breaks, comprehensive health benefits, catered lunches and a stocked office, and dedicated time to experiment with AI and build AI fluency.

Our process is a two-week sprint. We move fast and we'll tell you where you stand at every step.

Our team brings a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.