Account Executive

Gather

📍San Francisco, CA
Posted May 22, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Account Executive

Company

Gather

Location

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4405831822

Job Description

The Opportunity

As an Account Executive at Gather, you'll own the full sales cycle — from first conversation to closed deal — across a book of mid-market and enterprise prospects. You'll be one of our earliest sales hires, which means you won't just hit a quota; you'll help define how Gather sells. The playbook, the personas, the pitch — you'll have a hand in shaping all of it.

What You'll Do

  • Run the full sales cycle end-to-end: discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation, and close

  • Build and manage a pipeline across inbound leads and self-sourced outbound

  • Develop deep fluency in prospect pain points across research, insights, marketing, and CX teams

  • Partner with founders and GTM leadership to refine positioning, messaging, and pricing based on what you hear in the field

  • Work cross-functionally with Growth and Customer Success to ensure smooth handoffs and strong retention

  • Represent Gather at industry events, conferences, and prospect meetings

How We'll Measure Success

  • Quota attainment

  • Pipeline coverage and velocity

  • Win rate and average contract value

  • Time to close

You'll Thrive Here If You

  • Have 3–6 years of B2B SaaS sales experience, ideally at a startup or high-growth company

  • Are a strong discovery practitioner — you ask better questions than you give answers

  • Can sell to senior stakeholders (Directors, VPs, C-suite) with credibility and confidence

  • Are energized by ambiguity and motivated by the opportunity to build, not just execute

  • Hold yourself to a high standard — for pipeline hygiene, follow-through, and the quality of every customer interaction

Bonus Points For

  • Experience selling research, analytics, data, or AI-native tools

  • Familiarity with insights, CX, or market research buyer personas

  • Having closed deals at an early-stage company where the playbook didn't exist yet

Why Gather

  • Ownership:

Early AEs shape how this company goes to market — this isn't a seat on a mature sales floor
  • Product:

You'll be selling something that genuinely changes how companies understand their customers
  • Upside:

Competitive base, strong commission structure, and meaningful equity at an early stage

Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.Walk me through your approach to running a discovery call with a VP of Customer Insights. What frameworks do you use to uncover their pain points?
  • 2.Given that Gather is an early-stage company, how do you plan to build a pipeline when there isn't a massive inbound marketing engine yet?
  • 3.How do you manage your pipeline to ensure consistent quota attainment, specifically looking at metrics like coverage, velocity, and time to close?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to sell a product at an early-stage company where the playbook didn't exist yet. How did you figure out what worked?
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to sell to a C-suite executive. How did you establish credibility and navigate the conversation differently than with a director-level buyer?
  • 3.Give me an example of a time you partnered with a cross-functional team, like Customer Success or Product, to save a deal or improve a sales process.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are halfway through a demo with a Director of Market Research, and they say, 'This looks like just another survey tool. We already have Qualtrics.' How do you respond in the moment?
  • 2.You've just closed a mid-market deal, but you realize the handoff to Customer Success is bumpy because we don't have a formalized onboarding process yet at Gather. What do you do?

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