Founding Account Executive

☀️ About Nowadays

• We’re building the future of in-person connection—from intimate exec offsites to conference-scale company retreats.
• Nowadays is the first AI-powered platform for planning corporate events. Our software handles everything from venue sourcing to vendor negotiations, making it dramatically faster and easier for teams to meet IRL.
• We’ve planned events around the world for companies like Google, Amazon, and Quantstamp—and we’re just getting started.
• Our mission is simple: make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments together.

👥 Who We Are

We’re a sister-founded team based in San Francisco. We move fast, care deeply, and genuinely love bringing people together—whether it’s a strategic offsite or a Friendsgiving in our Nowadays home.

We believe the best teams

• Take ownership
• Stay scrappy
• Celebrate wins (big and small)
• Actually enjoy working and hanging out together

Some of our favorite team moments so far

• Flying trapeze
• Steak-offs at home
• Hauling a Christmas tree up to the office
• Post-launch spa days
• Racing an Ironman Relay

💼 What You’ll Do (Founding AE)

• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close for customers hosting retreats and meetings
• Run discovery calls, demos, and pricing conversations with confidence
• Shape the product by bringing customer feedback directly into product decisions
• Partner closely with the founders to refine messaging, pricing, and positioning
• Become a product expert who can speak fluently about our AI agents, capabilities, and integrations
• Sell into meetings & events teams, people teams, executive assistants, and agencies across mid-market and enterprise organizations
• Build and refine our sales playbook, pipeline, and CRM workflows
• Help define what great sales looks like at Nowadays from day one

🥇 What We’re Looking For

• Experience closing deals in a B2B SaaS environment (ideally SMB → mid-market)
• Comfort managing a high-velocity outbound motion (70–100 client touchpoints per day)
• Ability to sell a product that’s still evolving
• Strong product intuition and the ability to tailor messaging by persona
• A scrappy, proactive mindset—you’re not afraid of ambiguity
• Genuine enjoyment in building relationships and helping customers succeed

✨ Bonus Points

• Experience selling to event, marketing, HR, or operations teams
• Proven top-10% performance; President’s Club experience is a plus
• Zero-to-one startup sales experience
• Comfort with pricing conversations and negotiation
• Experience working closely with product and engineering teams

📝 The Details

Comp: $80K – $120K base ($160K – $240K OTE) + 0.1% – 0.5% equity (flexible based on experience)

Location: In-person, San Francisco

Perks

• Free lunch + dinner
• Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
• Monthly fitness stipend
• Health insurance
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous PTO + required time off to recharge
• High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
• Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences