Account Executive
Sales & Business Development
United States · San Francisco, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA · Remote
USD 140k-180k / year + Equity
About White Circle
White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.
We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others
We process over 100M+ API calls every month
We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model
We’re at a multi-million dollar run rate. You’ll be joining at the most exciting time - early enough that the equity can be life changing but at a point where demand has been proven.
What you'll do
Own the entire sales cycle, from prospecting and qualification through close
Develop relationships with AI leaders, engineering teams, platform teams, security teams, and executive stakeholders
Run product demos and help customers understand how White Circle fits into their AI stack
Navigate complex buying processes involving technical teams, legal, procurement, and executive decision-makers
Work closely with CEO & Head of Revenue on strategic opportunities
Provide structured customer feedback to product and engineering teams
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Help develop the messaging, sales process, and playbooks that will support future growth
Must-haves
2+ years closing net-new B2B SaaS/AI to mid-market or enterprise, where ACV > $100k and product was not sold mainly on brand or relationships
Technically literate - can hold conversations about complex technical products and have credibility with technical buyers
Previously worked as an SDR and graduated to AE in no more than 2 years
Can operate effectively without established playbooks or processes
Happy hunting your own deals initially
Extensive cold calling experience
Readiness to travel to clients
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Perfect English
Strong nice-to-haves
Have sold technical or security/infra/dev-tools products
Have founded a company or built something from scratch
Have been an early sales hire at a startup, especially a YC company
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Have experience as a software engineer, solutions engineer, sales engineer, or in another technical role
What success looks like after 12 months
You’ve closed multiple large logos, adding millions in revenue
You've helped establish repeatable sales processes and messaging
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You've built strong relationships across the AI ecosystem
Why White Circle
Salary: $140,000 - $180,000 base
Aggressive commission structure
Meaningful equity package
Fully remote within the US
All the hardware, tools, and services you need
Covered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEs
Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from
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Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez
How we hire
Intro call with Head of HR (25 min)
Call with Head of Revenue (45 min)
Take-home assignment
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Final conversation with our CEO (30 min)
Please submit your application in English.