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Founding Account Manager, Data Partnerships

Gener8 · New York, NY

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
Not disclosed
Quota attainment
Not disclosed
Posted
1mo ago

Why it matters: OTE tells you what you could earn. Attainment tells you how realistic it is.

Ask: “What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?”

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The job

What you'd do
Look after Gener8's biggest existing customers, like hedge funds, big tech firms and AI companies, and help them buy more of its data. You'll handle renewals and negotiate large contracts that run several years.
Who you'd sell to
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Where deals come from
Not stated in the posting.

The Braun Read

Proceed with caution

A few things here deserve a hard look before you spend time on it.

Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Time on market
Open 40 days. Normal, but not fresh.
Company hiring
2 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace.

Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  2. 2.

    What percentage of reps on the team have been here more than 18 months?

    Tenure shows whether people stay long enough to get paid.

  3. 3.

    Has the comp plan changed in the last 12 to 18 months? What changed?

    A plan that changes every year means the goalposts keep moving.

  4. 4.

    Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?

    Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.

  5. 5.

    What are the base and the OTE for this role?

    No point investing hours before you know the number.

  6. 6.

    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

› When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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Full posting
About Us Gener8 is reshaping the data ecosystem - empowering individuals to take control of and benefit from their data, while giving partners access to high-quality, fully consent-based behavioral insights. We’ve built world-class technology to unlock raw, event-level data across LLMs, browsing, and transactions, powering some of the most sophisticated companies in the world. Our culture is simple: Be fast. Be ambitious. Be accurate. We move quickly, think big, and hold a high bar for execution. The Role We’re hiring a Founding Account Manager, Data Partnerships to help build and scale how we manage, grow, and retain our most strategic customers. This is not a traditional account management role where you inherit a playbook and manage renewals. This is a builder role. You’ll own the commercial relationship with some of Gener8’s most important customers across hedge funds, big tech, AI companies, and next-generation data platforms - helping them maximize the value of our data while identifying opportunities to grow the partnership. You will own the customer journey post-sale: onboarding, adoption, strategic relationship management, renewals, expansion, and identifying new datasets, geographies, and use cases that can create additional value. Why This Role Matters You will be one of the first commercial hires shaping what world-class account management looks like at Gener8. Our customers are building critical products and making major strategic decisions using our data. As our customer base grows, we need someone who can deeply understand how each partner uses our data, become a trusted advisor to their teams, and continuously find ways to make the relationship more valuable. You won’t just manage accounts - you’ll help turn our largest customers into multi-year, multi-product strategic partnerships. This is a rare opportunity to build the account management motion from the ground up while directly influencing retention, expansion, product strategy, and revenue growth. What You’ll Do - Own strategic customer relationships: Become the primary commercial partner for Gener8’s largest and most important customers. - Drive retention and expansion: Own renewals and proactively grow accounts across datasets, geographies, teams, and new use cases. - Maximize customer value: Deeply understand how customers use our data and identify opportunities to improve adoption, outcomes, and ROI. - Build executive relationships: Develop strong relationships across product, data, procurement, legal, and executive stakeholders. - Identify new opportunities: Turn customer conversations into expansion opportunities, new products, and strategic partnerships. - Run complex renewals and expansions: Navigate multi-stakeholder commercial processes and negotiate high-value, multi-year agreements. - Build the account management motion: Help define account planning, QBRs, customer health, renewal processes, expansion strategy, and forecasting. - Be the voice of the customer: Bring customer feedback, product requests, and emerging use cases back into the business to help shape our roadmap. - Act like an owner: Move fast, anticipate issues before they become blockers, and do what it takes to make our customers successful. Requirements What We’re Looking For - 5+ years of experience in account management, data licensing, strategic partnerships, or complex enterprise relationships - Proven track record managing and growing large enterprise accounts and driving meaningful expansion revenue - Experience owning renewals and commercial negotiations for high-value, complex contracts - Strong understanding of data products, analytics, or digital ecosystems - Highly commercial - able to balance customer success with identifying and closing expansion opportunities - Builder mindset - you’ve operated in early-stage or high-growth environments and enjoy creating processes from scratch - Strong relationship builder who can become a trusted partner to senior stakeholders - Excellent communicator, comfortable working across technical, commercial, legal, and executive teams - Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable with ambiguity - High urgency and high standards Benefits - Be a founding Account Manager: Build the playbook for how we manage and grow strategic customers. - Own meaningful relationships: Work directly with some of the most sophisticated companies across AI, technology, finance, and data. - Category-defining product: Fully consented, raw behavioral data across LLMs, browsing, and purchases - first in market. - Massive expansion opportunity: Our customers can grow across products, datasets, geographies, and use cases. - High impact, high upside: Direct influence on retention, expansion revenue, product strategy, and company growth. - Fast, ambitious team: No bureaucracy, high expectations, strong execution. - If you’re excited about building deep customer relationships, growing strategic partnerships, and helping define how a new category of data scales, this is the role for you.
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