Braun Board

Sales, Enterprise

Light · Austin, TX

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?”

Still open · checked 2h agoon Light's careers page

What Light sells

Lets companies sell their own electricity plans

When a carmaker or solar installer wants to offer electricity, it usually has to go through a traditional utility. The problem is, utilities send confusing bills and have frustrating customer service. Light lets any company sell its own electricity plans, so a car buyer can get home charging included with the car.

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The Braun Read

Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Pipeline
Mostly self-sourced. Great if you like outbound, rough if you don't.
Time on market
Open 43 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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The role

Sell Light's utility-as-API platform to the world's largest companies so they can offer integrated electricity plans. Work C-level relationships through outreach to signed partnership, with bespoke business cases.

Enterprise · New Logo · Outbound

Selling motion

New Logo

Who you're selling to

Buyer:
Automakers, solar providers and real estate companiesIn their words: “companies from automakers and solar providers to real estate and beyond can offer their own, integrated electricity plans”
Industry:
Automotive, solar and real estateIn their words: “companies from automakers and solar providers to real estate and beyond”
Company size:
Enterprise

Pipeline expectations

Mostly self-sourced. Expect a lot of outbound.

Compensation

The posting doesn't list pay.

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

  • Base salary
  • OTE
  • Quota size
  • Quota attainment
  • Average deal size
  • Territory
  • Sales cycle length

The questions above cover the big ones.

Full posting
ABOUT US The world is electrifying. As we plug in more devices and services, we need new ways to connect to power. The traditional, one-size-fits-all utility approach, with complicated bills and frustrating customer service, no longer works. At Light, we make it easy to get affordable, renewable electricity by embedding power with the products that consumers already use, from the companies they love. Light's mission is to power a sustainable and abundant energy future for everyone. We do it by making any company able to sell electricity. With Light's utility-as-API platform, companies from automakers and solar providers to real estate and beyond can offer their own, integrated electricity plans. Imagine purchasing an electric vehicle that includes unlimited home charging, or solar panels that come bundled with any excess energy you might need from the grid. We're building the flexible future where clean energy shows up wherever customers already are. We're a Series A company based in Austin, TX. We've found meaningful traction and are now investing aggressively in growth. Join us in building the digital energy infrastructure for the next century of power. THE ROLE: Your mission is to help Light win partnerships with the largest companies in the world. You'll work directly alongside the founders and early team to build how Light partners with large enterprises. You'll own a focused set of strategic accounts, developing relationships with C-level decision-makers, navigating complex organizations, and leading opportunities from initial outreach through signed partnership. This is not a typical enterprise software sale. You're helping the world's largest companies build an entirely new energy business– expanding their scope of role with their customers and defining how they participate in the energy ecosystem. You'll need to sell that vision, build each bespoke business case for it, and drive alignment across executives who may never have considered energy as part of their business. The result is a uniquely consultative and visionary enterprise sale. You'll work cross-functionally with Product, BizOps, Partner Growth, and Business Development to bring the right expertise into each opportunity, while owning the strategy and orchestration required to move complex organizations from an ambitious idea to a real partnership. Beyond closing the company’s largest partnerships, you'll help build Light's enterprise sales motion. You'll sharpen how we position, qualify, navigate, and win our most complex opportunities, turning what works into a repeatable and scalable playbook. This is an opportunity to join at an inflection point: we have the product and traction to pursue opportunities that weren't possible for Light before, while still early enough that you'll help shape what it means for the world’s largest companies to embed electricity. IN YOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS, YOU WILL: - Own Light's most strategic enterprise opportunities. Take responsibility for a focused set of high-value accounts and drive them from initial engagement through signing. - Build relationships across complex organizations. Identify the companies that matter, develop stakeholder champions, navigate competing priorities, and build the executive alignment required to move large organizations forward. - Lead a visionary, consultative sales process. Help prospective partners understand how energy is an integral part of their business’s future, then build the strategic and economic case to make that vision real. - Orchestrate the company around important deals. Bring founders, Product, Partner Growth, and other experts into opportunities at the right moments and quarterback the process from beginning to end. - Build enterprise sales discipline. Bring structure and rigor to qualification, account planning, stakeholder mapping, forecasting, and deal progression across long and complex sales cycles. - Help create Light's enterprise sales playbook. Turn what you learn into a repeatable engine for identifying, engaging, and winning our largest prospective partners. YOU WOULD DESCRIBE YOURSELF AS: - An accomplished enterprise seller with a track record of winning complex opportunities with largest, most complex companies in the world. - A visionary and consultative seller who can help executives see a business opportunity they weren't already looking for, understand its strategic and economic value, and build conviction around pursuing it. - Exceptional at navigating organizations, with the judgment and stakeholder management skills to build champions, reach C-level executives, and create alignment across large, multi-threaded buying groups. - Commercially minded, with the ability to understand a partner's business and build a compelling economic case around new revenue streams and incentive-aligned partnerships. - A disciplined enterprise operator who brings rigor to account planning, qualification, forecasting, and complex deal management. - A strong cross-functional quarterback who knows when and how to bring in founders, product leaders, and other experts while maintaining clear ownership of the process. - An entrepreneurial builder who is excited to apply years of enterprise sales experience in an early-stage environment and help create the playbook rather than inherit one. - Experienced and based in Austin, with 10+ years of success selling into the largest enterprises, and the ability to work five days per week in-office with frequent travel.
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