Founding Account Executive

San Francisco, United States
Full-time

About the role

We're looking for a Founding Account Executive to help build Quanta's sales organization from the ground up. This isn't a role where you'll inherit a mature sales process, a perfectly defined territory, and years of historical data telling you exactly how to win. You'll be responsible for closing new business while helping us figure out how Quanta should sell: which customers we win with, how we create urgency, how we navigate finance organizations, what makes deals move, and how we turn those learnings into a repeatable sales motion.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be an exceptional individual contributor today while helping build the sales organization that comes after them.

What You’ll Do

  • Own the full sales cycle. Take opportunities from discovery through evaluation, stakeholder alignment, negotiation, and close while maintaining the ability to create your own pipeline when needed.
  • Run exceptional discovery and sell complexity simply. Understand how finance organizations operate, uncover meaningful business problems, and translate Quanta's value into a clear story for sophisticated buyers.
  • Navigate complex deals and create momentum. Build champions, multi-thread across stakeholders, create urgency, surface risks early, and establish clear next steps that move opportunities forward.
  • Experiment and learn. Test approaches to messaging, qualification, demos, business cases, and deal execution to understand why we win, lose, and stall.
  • Develop and lead our SDR motion. Partner closely with SDRs to sharpen targeting, messaging, and outbound strategy while coaching them on the fundamentals of great selling. As the team grows, help set the operating rhythm, standards, and feedback loops that turn SDRs into a high-performing source of pipeline and future sales talent.
  • Help build the sales machine. Turn what works into repeatable processes, tools, and standards that future AEs can inherit, using AI thoughtfully to increase your leverage and effectiveness.

About Quanta

Quanta is building a new system of record for finance: an AI-native accounting platform with a full-service accounting team, made for software companies that need their finances accurate, explainable, and ready for decisions. At its core is the Operational Ledger, a continuously reconciled financial data layer. It keeps every event, calculation, policy, source, and decision behind the numbers instead of reducing them to entries with no context.

Quanta started as an accounting services company and spent years closing the books for fast-growing companies. It turned that experience into product and is now becoming a standalone SaaS platform. Customers have already replaced much of what QuickBooks and NetSuite do, along with the manual work around them, and are switching off their old accounting systems to move to Quanta. The company has about 35 paying customers and more than $1M in ARR.

Mission: Quanta wants to define what a financial system of record should be, and more broadly what truly AI-native business software can look like. The aim is to make questions that used to take weeks to answer as routine as a Google search: Why did margins change? Which customers are actually profitable? How are we tracking against budget?

Culture: Quanta is an early-stage, low-ego team with a shared drive to win together. People are expected to take high ownership and high agency. Employees form their own opinions, test them against reality, and help write playbooks that don't exist yet. Anyone who ramps quickly and wants more responsibility can take on more scope.

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Job details

Salary

$175,000 - $245,000

Location

San Francisco, United States

Experience

5+ years

Company

NameQuanta
Industrysoftware_development, b2b, fintech, finance, enterprise, ai
Team Size60

Funding

Total raised

$19.7M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Accel
OOperator Collective
Designer Fund
CComma Capital
EElad Gil

Founders

HH

Helen Hastings

Co-founder & CEO

TC

Theodora Chu

Co-founder

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.