sales
Posted May 6Account Executive, Commercial Expansion - San Francisco
at cursor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- transactional tail) and ruthlessly prioritize your time accordingly - Stay on top of the fast-changing AI ecosystem - new models, pricing shifts, product capabilities - and translate that into clear, value-led narratives for customers - Collaborate closely with Product, Support, RevOps, and Sales Leadership to tighten feedback loops from the field and level up how Cursor sells and supports commercial customers WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - You deliver meaningful value to customers, helping them stay ahead of
- - Customers trust you as a strategic partner who can explain Cursor's roadmap and pricing, and how the broader AI landscape is shifting and what that means for them.
- experience in a high-velocity B2B SaaS environment - You have meaningful expansion and renewal
- experience selling technical products, including dev tools, infrastructure, data/AI platforms, payments/fintech, or similarly complex, multi-stakeholder solutions - You have a strong commercial and strategic mindset: comfortable navigating change, usage-based models, and explaining "why things are changing" in a way that builds trust - You are energized by change and ambiguity - the AI space is evolving quickly, Cursor's product is evolving with it, and you see that as an opportunity, not a bug - You have
Experience
- YOU MAY BE A FIT IF - You have 2+ years of closing
Additional details
- The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.
- Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense.
- We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative.
- We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
- We're hiring our first Commercial Expansion Account Executive to own a book of existing accounts, deliver meaningful value to customers, drive expansion, and ensure successful renewals.
- This is a proactive, sales-led role focused on unlocking the next wave of growth within some of Cursor's most exciting customers.
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own a portfolio of existing commercial customers and be accountable for expansion, net revenue retention, and renewals, landing new business units, deepening adoption, and cross-selling Cursor's platform - Proactively multi-thread into engineering, data, and product leadership to identify opportunities, position additional capabilities (agent-first workflows, new features, frontier models), and turn initial lands into multi-year, multi-product relationships - Monitor usage commitments
- - You consistently hit or exceed renewal and expansion targets across your book of business.
- - Your Tier 1 accounts see meaningful year-over-year growth in both usage and revenue, and you can point to specific multi-threaded plays you ran to make it happen.
- - Internally, Sales and Product leaders rely on you for signal on what's working (and what isn't) in our expansion and renewal playbook.