Enterprise Account Executive

Job description

**About Avante** Ask any employee to explain their benefits, and you'll likely get a confused shrug. Ask any HR leader if their benefits investment is working, and you'll get an honest "I don't know." For employees, benefits are confusing and overwhelming. For HR and finance leaders, benefits are the second-largest expense, but they lack the visibility to know what's working and what's wasted. At Avante, we're changing that. We're an AI-native benefits intelligence platform built to turn benefits complexity into clarity. For employees, our agent Carly provides personalized, always-on benefits guidance. For benefits leaders, our agent Ava monitors their entire program, surfaces what needs attention, and delivers strategic intelligence on costs, utilization, and outcomes in seconds. Together, these agents create a closed-loop system where employee engagement data informs benefits strategy, and smarter strategy improves the employee experience. We're based in Seattle and New York City and work 4 days a week in the office (one day remote). We're growing fast, serving enterprise customers like Samsung, Zscaler, and News Corp, and we're expanding our go-to-market team with an Enterprise Account Executive who will own a named patch of self-funded employers, partner with the brokers and consultants who advise them, and close deals that put Avante on the desks of CHROs, CFOs, and Total Rewards leaders at some of the largest companies in the world. **The Role** We're looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to run a full enterprise patch of self-funded employers, spanning the 2,500-employee mid-market on the low end up through Fortune 500 strategic accounts. You'll own the entire deal, from first conversation through signature, with the goal of landing new logos that look like the customers already on our roster: Goldman Sachs, Samsung, Zscaler, News Corp, SurveyMonkey, Navan, Real Chemistry, Datavant, Calix, Personify, and F5. The buying committee for Avante is multi-stakeholder by default. You'll multi-thread across Total Rewards, Benefits, HR Operations, HRIS, IT Security, and Finance, and you'll need to credibly explain to each of them why Avante is different from the ben admin platform, the decision support tool, and the point solutions they already own. Avante is not a replacement for any of those. It's the intelligence layer that connects them. Selling that distinction well is the hardest and most important part of the job. You'll also work hand-in-hand with our channel partners. About half of enterprise benefits decisions run through brokers and consultants, and Avante has formal partnerships with OneDigital, Howden, and Segal Benz, plus growing relationships across the broker ecosystem. The right person for this role treats brokers as force multipliers, not gatekeepers, and knows how to co-sell without losing the buyer relationship. This role reports to the CRO. We're hiring across a range of experience. If you're a senior enterprise closer who has carried seven-figure quotas at F500 accounts, you'll find one of the largest greenfield opportunities in HR tech sitting in front of you. If you're earlier in your enterprise career and ready to step up, you'll get a patch big enough to grow into and the support to win in it. What we care about most is whether you can run a complex, multi-threaded enterprise deal, build durable relationships with executive buyers, and operate with the urgency of a founder. ### What You'll Do **Own a named enterprise patch end-to-end.** You'll work a defined account list spanning mid-market enterprise through Fortune 500. Build the territory plan, prioritize the accounts, develop the relationships, run the cycles, and close the business. The patch is yours. **Multi-thread into complex buying committees.** Avante deals are won and lost on access. You'll build relationships with CHROs, Heads of Total Rewards, Benefits Directors, CFOs, and the IT and Security leaders who clear the path. You'll know who the economic buyer is, who the champion is, who the blocker is, and what each of them needs to see before they sign. **Sell the closed-loop story, not a feature list.** Avante is in a new category. Buyers compare us to ben admin platforms, decision support tools, care navigation vendors, and point solutions, and none of those comparisons are quite right. Your job is to teach the market what benefits intelligence is, why the closed loop between Carly and Ava matters, and why purpose-built agents beat generic AI bolted onto legacy systems. **Co-sell with brokers and consultants.** Roughly half your pipeline will touch a broker or consultant. You'll work side-by-side with OneDigital, Howden, Segal Benz, and the broader broker ecosystem. That means knowing the consulting firms in your patch, building real relationships with the consultants who influence your accounts, and structuring co-sell motions where everybody wins. **Run rigorous demos and POCs.** Ava reasons live. Carly answers real benefits questions. The product sells itself when it's in front of the right people, on the right data, asking the right questions. You'll partner with our Sales Engineering team to scope and run technical evaluations, including 30-day implementations that get customers live before most vendors finish a security review. **Build a quarterly forecast you can defend.** You'll own a clean pipeline, a defensible forecast, and a clear plan to hit. Stages have meaning here. We expect MEDDPICC-level rigor on every six-figure-plus opportunity, and we expect you to bring deal risks forward early rather than at the end of the quarter. **Use AI as a core part of how you work.** Sellers at Avante use AI tools daily to research accounts, draft outbound, prep for executive meetings, build mutual close plans, and turn call transcripts into next-step plans before the customer is off the Zoom. If you've been operating like a traditional AE who occasionally tries ChatGPT, this is not the right seat. We want sellers who are already rewiring their workflow around what Claude, Granola, and similar tools make possible. **Partner across GTM.** You'll work tightly with Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, and Product. You'll bring customer signal back into the company with urgency, and you'll trust your peers to do their parts so you can stay focused on what only you can do: closing. **Adapt as we grow.** The patch, the playbook, and the partner motion will evolve as Avante scales. You should expect your territory and product surface to expand over time, and you should welcome that. ### What We're Looking For - 5–10+ years of quota-carrying SaaS sales experience, with at least 3 years closing enterprise deals at $150K+ ACV into HR, Benefits, Finance, or adjacent buying centers - A track record of consistently hitting or exceeding quota in a complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sale - Demonstrated ability to run new-category or evangelical sales, where you have to teach the buyer what the product is before you can sell it - Experience co-selling with channel partners, ideally brokers, consultants, or systems integrators - Executive presence and written communication strong enough to credibly engage CHROs, CFOs, and their direct reports - Active, hands-on use of AI in your day-to-day selling motion, not just curiosity about it - A clean, methodical approach to pipeline, forecast, and deal qualification (MEDDPICC or equivalent) - Comfort operating at startup pace with startup ambiguity, while running enterprise deal cycles with enterprise discipline ### Nice to Have - Direct experience selling into benefits, HR tech, or healthcare to self-funded employers - Existing relationships in the benefits broker and consultant ecosystem (Mercer, Aon, WTW, Gallagher, Lockton, OneDigital, Howden, Segal Benz) - Experience selling AI-native or data-intensive platforms where buyers need to be educated on what the product actually is - Early-stage startup experience where you helped build the playbook, not just run it - A network of CHRO, Total Rewards, or Benefits leader relationships you can reactivate from day one ### Our Values Our four values aren't aspirational. They translate into concrete operating tenets that shape how we make decisions every day. **Beat Yesterday.** We re-evaluate our own toolkit every quarter, because the prospecting motion, the demo flow, and the deal-management workflow that worked last quarter may already be obsolete. We act on 70% of the information rather than waiting for certainty, because in enterprise sales the cost of a delayed call is almost always higher than the cost of a slightly imperfect one. We timebox, execute, and iterate, getting proposals and mutual plans in front of buyers fast rather than polishing in isolation. And we own our output regardless of how we produced it. AI can get you 80% of the way to a great executive brief or a sharp follow-up. Everything that goes out with your name on it is your responsibility to review, refine, and stand behind. **Embrace Type 2 Fun.** Enterprise sales is hard, slow on its own timeline, and full of moments where the right answer is uncomfortable. We assume good intent and follow up directly rather than venting in side channels. We celebrate wins loudly and specifically, naming the actual behavior so the whole team learns what great looks like. We are on by default, because customers don't wait for business hours and a deal in motion at 7pm on a Thursday is still a deal. And we do unscalable things today that build scalable advantages tomorrow. Every white-glove proof-of-value, every hand-built executive brief, every late-night RFP turnaround earns us the reference, the case study, and the next customer. **Stay Hungry, Stay Curious.** We expect every seller to be the expert on AI in their function before anyone asks them to be. The landscape changes weekly. When you learn something, teach it, whether it's a new outbound workflow, a sharper way to handle a security objection, or a better mutual close plan template. Learn enough about adjacent functions to ask good questions. Sit in on customer success calls, attend product demo day, understand what Carly and Ava actually do together as one platform. And ask the question you think is too basic. Benefits is a complex, technical domain, and the cost of a wrong assumption about how a self-funded plan, a PBM contract, or an HRIS data flow works can be a lost account. Curiosity without urgency is a hobby. We expect both. **Act Like an Owner.** We say the uncomfortable thing early. If a deal is slipping, a forecast is soft, or a partner relationship is off track, you raise it directly within 48 hours. We surface problems when they're small, not the week before quarter-end. Customer-facing work gets priority, always. Internal meetings move so customer meetings can happen. And we close the loop every time, with customers, with partners, with each other. Over-communication is a feature at our stage, not a bug. No one at Avante should ever wonder whether you saw their message or where a deal stands. ### What We Offer - Competitive base salary, and meaningful early-stage equity. - Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). - OTE of $250,000 - $300,000.