Founding AE (Mid-Market)
About Spur
Spur builds fundamental technology for the future of QA: autonomous browser agents that think, explore, validate, and self-heal like real users. We’re not another test tool — we’re reimagining how digital teams ship with confidence.
The market has responded loudly. Top brands (Alo Yoga, Living Spaces, HelloFresh, Nextdoor, Abercrombie & Fitch, and more) are actively pulling us in. Inbound demand is exploding. Sales cycles are fast. And the product actually delivers — teams go live in days, not months.
We’re a small, elite team of builders from DeepMind, Figma, ex-founders and customers — shipping at a pace that big companies can’t touch.
About the Role
We’re hiring our first AE to build Spur’s revenue engine from the ground up — a true founding GTM role with massive ownership, fast impact, and a direct hand in shaping a category-defining AI company.
What Makes This Role Special
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Real demand & fast momentum: We’re flooded with inbound from brands that needed Spur yesterday — you’ll spend far more time closing than prospecting.
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Sell fundamental technology: Spur is 10× better than the status quo, proven in production, and loved by engineering and QA leaders. This isn’t feature selling — it’s evangelizing a new category in AI.
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Fast, clean sales cycles: 4-8 week cycles, rapid pilots (1-2 week long), urgent pain points, and clear ROI make deals move.
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Founder-level exposure: Work directly with the founders and early engineers in a zero-bureaucracy, high-speed environment.
Key Responsibilities:
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Effectively prospect, develop, and close enterprise sales opportunities
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Meet and exceed all quarterly and annual sales quotas
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Generate leads from marketing events and conferences
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Accurately forecast quarterly and monthly sales
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Develop and manage pipeline activity and monitor sales activity against quota
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Possess a full understanding of clients’ specific decision-making and purchasing process
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Develop long-term relationships with clients and design account plans for new relationships
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Responsible for navigating through an enterprise organization to leverage cross-sell and upsell opportunities
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Use in-depth knowledge of industry trends in e-commerce to consult and support prospective customers
Your skills:
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Extensive enterprise sales experience at a SaaS company
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Proven track record selling enterprise solution into large/ complex accounts and over-achieving quarterly and annual sales targets
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Experience consistently exceeding quota of $1 Million and more, with proven success in accurately forecasting targets, and achieving sales commits
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Be a “hunter” and proven closer
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Metrics driven: Know your numbers from top-of funnel to close rates throughout the sales funnel
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Ability to hold your own in meetings with C-suite representatives from prospective partners and speak as a thought-leader and visionary in the learning space
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Entrepreneurial drive and comfort working autonomously and as part of a team in ambiguous, quickly-changing environments
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Outstanding ability to collaborate, understand, and empathize with others
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Passion for education
Must Haves:
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2.5 years of SaaS sales experience, with at least 1.5 of those years as a quota carrying AE/1 full, fully ramped year as a quota carrying AE
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Self-driven and career-oriented. This is as early as it gets, and you won’t have a big team around you to lean on. If the comraderie of a large sales team and the social elements of a large company drive you, we don’t have those things (yet!).
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Comfort with technical products and complex value propositions
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Excellent written and verbal skills
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Collaborative team player with a positive demeanor and high degree of accountability
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Highly metrics oriented. We believe sales, marketing, and CS should all be closely aligned, and we don’t believe in vanity metrics or goals.
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Comfortable with rapid pace, change, and autonomy
NICE-TO-HAVES
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Interested in potentially becoming a leader – we believe in promoting from within and strongly support career development
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Experience at early-stage SaaS companies in particular
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Sales operations proficiency
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Familiarity with working with e-commerce brands, and understanding what makes them tick