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Founding Account Executive

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The Founding Account Executive will own the entire sales cycle for financial firms, crafting narratives, driving deals, and maintaining a data-driven pipeline.
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About Trove

  • Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms - think enterprise search & agents for private equity, hedge funds, and banks

  • Our mission is to deliver associate‑level AGI

  • We’ve raised nearly $10M from Menlo and Khosla Ventures

  • We have strong initial traction - large enterprise contracts and user engagement on par with best-in-class B2B AI applications

Why this role?

  • Own the revenue engine. As our first AE you’ll run the entire sales cycle—from outbound to close—for PE, hedge-fund, and banking logos.

  • Founder-track learning. Build the GTM playbook alongside the founders, setting the template for every AE who comes after you.

  • High upside. Competitive base + uncapped commission.

What you’ll do

  • Source, qualify, and close six- and seven- figure enterprise deals with financial-services firms.

  • Craft compelling narratives and run tailored demos / pilots that showcase ROI.

  • Drive deals through complex, multi-stakeholder evaluations and negotiate win-win contracts.

  • Maintain a precise, data-driven pipeline and forecast for leadership and investors.

  • Feed market insight back to product, marketing, and customer success.

Who you are

  • 4 - 10 years selling enterprise SaaS; track record of beating quota

  • Skilled at consultative selling to senior execs in finance or similarly complex industries.

  • Comfortable in 0 → 1 environments—scrappy, resourceful, and process-oriented.

  • Clear communicator who can translate technical value into business outcomes.

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