sales
Posted Dec 18, 2025Founding Account Executive
at Terac
San Francisco, GlobalRemote
$15,000
Responsibilities
- Build relationships in the market research and product communities to drive awareness.
Requirements
- Must-haves - Generalist Mindset: You are comfortable switching context between selling, supporting customers, and evangelizing the product. - Revenue Focused: You prioritize activities that drive growth and retention.
- This is not an ops role. - Scrappy & Autonomous: As the first GTM hire, you won’t have a playbook handed to you.
- You will help write it and will need to work in an unstructured environment Nice-to-haves -
- Experience in early-stage startups or GTM/growth roles. - Background in the industry or selling to research and product teams.
Benefits
- You’ll work directly with our CEO to design, build, and scale the systems that will make Terac a $100B company, from our sales playbook to marketing campaigns to partnerships with your favorite companies.
- MISC - We operate in-person six days per week in our downtown SF office - Compensation: Competitive salary, menaingful equity vested over four years, $15K relocation bonus (for moving to the Bay Area), $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office), Health, Dental, Vision insurance, 401(k) with company match - Terac culture: Between weekly presentations, company hackathons, and an AI-first mindset, you'll be working with one of the most innovative teams on the planet.
Additional details
- FOUNDING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Terac helps teams reach faster research breakthroughs through our marketplace of verified experts.
- We are building agents to recruit, verify, and match 10,000s experts with 1000s of opportunities from the worlds most innovative organizations.
- We work with leading enterprises and are backed by top investors.
- THE ROLE We’re looking for a founding account executive hire who wants to own huge pieces of the product, move fast, and help build the future of human understanding.
- What You’ll Do - Full-Cycle Sales: Manage inbound leads, run demos, and close deals.
- You will be the primary driver of revenue. - Customer Success: Own the post-sale relationship.
- Onboard customers, drive adoption, and ensure they get long-term value from the platform. - Growth & Community: Represent Terac at conferences and events.
- ABOUT YOU You’re the kind of person who might have once tried to start a company yourself, or still might someday.
- You’re relentless, hands-on, and care deeply about building something meaningful.
- - Growth opportunities: You're joining Terac at one of the earliest stages and will have an opportunity to shape and grow with the company as a founding member.