Founding Director Jobs in Raleigh, NC (NOW HIRING)

We're now building a dedicated Mid Market motion — cross-vertical, not tied to a single industry — and hiring a Founding Mid-Market Account Executive to help define it. This is a builder's seat: you'll be sourcing pipeline, running the sales cycle, and co-creating the partner-led GTM engine that the next wave of MM AEs will run on.

• Own full-cycle sales for mid-market prospects across verticals — discovery through close
• Partner with Strategic Alliances and Channel to build repeatable GTM motions with top integration and channel partners that generate qualified pipeline
• Source and engage prospects to understand their goals, constraints, and operating environment — then map PolyAI's Dialog AI to measurable business outcomes
• Build and execute territory plans to identify and prioritize high-potential mid-market accounts
• Generate pipeline through outbound prospecting, your own network, and coordinated work with marketing and partnerships
• Build mutual action plans that align stakeholders, timelines, and decision criteria
• Run structured discovery, quantify business impact, and manage multi-stakeholder buying processes to close
• Maintain strong CRM hygiene and accurate forecasting; operate on a clear weekly cadence
• Collaborate cross-functionally (Solution Engineering, Partnerships, Enablement, Legal, Product, Finance) to move deals forward
• Help shape the MM playbook — messaging, sales process, partner motion — that scales as the team grows

• Have a proven track record in a closing role, carrying and exceeding quota in a SaaS environment
• Have run full-cycle, multi-stakeholder deals, including senior/exec-level engagement
• Are strong at self-sourced outbound — you don't wait for pipeline, you build it
• Have experience working with or through partners (channel, alliances, integrations) to generate or accelerate deals
• Are comfortable with ambiguity — you'd rather build the process than inherit one
• Bring strong forecasting discipline and can set clear short- and long-term priorities
• Are fluent with sales tools (Salesforce, Outreach/Salesloft, LinkedIn)

• Grit / Horsepower / Fire to Be Great — a refusal to accept average. It shows in how they talk about losses, how they respond to rejection, and whether they've done hard things just to prove they could.
• AI-Native Mindset — they can't imagine working without it. They've built prompts, tinkered, and have real opinions. In a Dialog AI company selling to skeptical buyers, an AE who can't articulate what makes AI powerful has a credibility problem before they open their mouth.
• Genuine Curiosity — they ask better questions than most people have answers for, and do research nobody asked them to do. In a complex technical sale into a new vertical, curiosity is what separates reps who hit a wall from reps who find a way through it.
• Builder's / Founder's Mindset — energized by blank pages, not paralyzed by them. They've built something from nothing without waiting for permission or a playbook. Comfortable with ambiguity; creates structure instead of waiting for it.
• Resiliency + Adaptability — they've been knocked down and didn't collapse, complain, or coast. Not about positivity — about how fast they reset and what they do with the information a setback gives them. Things will break; we need people with high pain tolerance who fix things, not people who need things fixed for them.

• Experience selling into more than one vertical or industry
• Familiarity with structured sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, Challenger)
• Experience building or scaling a new segment/motion from the ground up
• Background working with technical integrations or platform partners

• Be the founding AE on a net-new segment with direct influence over how it's built
• Sell a product with fast time-to-live and clear, provable ROI
• Work directly with GTM leadership to shape territory design, partner motion, and comp/process as the team scales
• Join a team with high standards, low ego, and a bias for action

We provide a competitive salary range for this role - which is $80,000 - $90,000 base salary / $160,000 - $180,000 OTE (USD) - depending on level and experience. Please note this range is intended as a guide, not a guarantee. Final compensation will be based on individual qualifications, relevant experience, and the scope of the role.

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