Startups Account Executive
San Francisco, CA · HybridJob$122–153K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Brex is hiring a Startups Account Executive to generate new revenue and grow its brand by working with founders, executives, controllers, and finance leaders. The role manages a full sales pipeline and engages businesses throughout the sales cycle, from prospecting and product demonstrations through onboarding and closing. It is based in Brex’s San Francisco office in a hybrid environment, with at least three coordinated office days each week.
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Why join us
Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.
Sales at Brex
Sales is the growth engine at Brex. We bring in new customers, expand existing relationships, and drive the company’s bottom line. With unlimited territories and uncapped opportunity, your ambition sets the ceiling. We win together, celebrate often, and reward performance. If you want to sell a category-defining product with real ownership, this is your team.
What you’ll do
As an Account Executive, you will be working with founders, co-founders, C-Suite Executives, controllers, and VP’s of Finance to continue generating net-new revenue and growing the Brex brand. You will manage a full pipeline and ensure success on every level.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Responsibilities
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Close net new business with a focus on professionally funded companies
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Become trusted account advisors by managing accounts and being strategic in both inbound and outbound sales
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Engage with businesses at all points of the sales cycle - including prospecting, product demonstrations, onboarding, and close.
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Develop strategic plans on how to close more companies and generate more revenue
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Focus on self-development with daily training and enablement
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Work closely with Startups Ambassadors to bring in referrals
Requirements
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18+ months of Outbound B2B SaaS Sales experience, including 6+ months of closing experience
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Proven track record of consistently exceeding quota, President's Club, or top 10% of your team
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Comfortable running discovery and closing conversations with C-suite decision makers
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Compensation
The expected OTE range for this role is $122,026 - $152,533. The starting wage will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. The OTE figure listed here includes base salary and commissions, which may or may not be earned depending on performance. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package. Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,483 open Account Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$122–153K/yr
- California median$130–189K/yr1,188 salary ranges
- US median$113–160K/yr8,182 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $137K, is 15% below the California median midpoint ($162K) — in the middle half of Account Executive salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,488 open Account Executive jobs in California and 11,483 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Account Executive postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,701 postings).
- Education
- 1,940 of the 11,483 open Account Executive jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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