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Account Executive, Strategic Accounts

Lightfield · San Francisco, CA

Base
$250K–$300K
OTE
Not disclosed
Quota attainment
Not disclosed
Posted
2mo 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 Lightfield's careers page

What Lightfield sells

CRM that learns from emails and meetings

Sales teams often keep customer details scattered across emails, meetings, and notes, so they can't easily see what comes next. Lightfield is a CRM that learns from those emails, meetings, and customer talks to build a living picture of how the business works. That helps teams anticipate what happens next, make better decisions, and take action.

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The Braun Read

Worth a look

Solid on the basics. Use the first call to fill in the gaps.

Pay
Base is listed but not OTE. Ask what the variable is and how many people hit it.
Transparency
Shares 1 of 5: quota, attainment, deal size, territory, sales cycle.
Pipeline
Mostly self-sourced. Great if you like outbound, rough if you don't.
Time on market
Open 62 days. Ask why it's been hard to fill.
Company hiring
3 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace.

Red flags

None spotted.

Green flags

  • States deal size. Average deal size tells you what kind of selling this really is.

Based only on what the posting says. Flags 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's the OTE, and what did the median rep earn last year?

    Base is what you're guaranteed. OTE and the median show the upside.

  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 Lightfield as a Series B/C company's full GTM system, replacing incumbent CRM and process. Self-source a small target book, run deep discovery, and scope implementation within $80–150K deals.

Strategic · New Logo · Outbound

Selling motion

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Who you're selling to

Buyer:
Sales, marketing and customer success leadersIn their words: “Multi-thread across sales, marketing and customer success leadership, because the whole GTM is the sale and no one of those three can buy it alone”
Company size:
Mid-Market

Pipeline expectations

Mostly self-sourced. Expect a lot of outbound.

Compensation

$250K–$300K base

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

  • OTE
  • Quota size
  • Quota attainment
  • Territory
  • Sales cycle length

The questions above cover the big ones.

Full posting
ABOUT LIGHTFIELD Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action. More than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce. ABOUT THE ROLE Everything above about our inbound funnel is true, and this isn't that seat. Strategic sells to high growth Series B and C companies ready to make Lightfield their entire GTM system — not a CRM sitting alongside six other tools, but the thing sales, marketing and customer success all run on. That means the sale includes sales methodology, reporting and forecasting, and it means you're replacing systems and process a company has already built around. There aren't many of these deals. Each one runs $80–150K, takes real discovery, and is won across a buying committee rather than with a champion. You'll spend more time on fewer accounts than anyone else, and each one you land changes the company's revenue profile. There's no strategic playbook to inherit. There's a product with real traction, a category argument that hasn't been made yet at this deal size, and a founder who'll be in your deals with you. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own a small book of Series B and C target accounts, self-sourced and worked deliberately - Run deep discovery — how they sell today, what their methodology is, where forecasting breaks, what they've built process around - Multi-thread across sales, marketing and customer success leadership, because the whole GTM is the sale and no one of those three can buy it alone - Design the implementation: what gets migrated, in what order, which team goes live first, what the first 90 days look like - Displace incumbent systems — data, migration and change-management objections alongside product ones - Build the strategic motion itself: target account criteria, the discovery framework, the migration story, the pilot structure - Partner with product on what Series B and C companies need that we don't have yet WHO YOU ARE - 5–10 years selling B2B SaaS, with a documented record closing at $80K+ ACV - You self-source. Tell us what percentage of your closed-won you generated yourself, and how. - Your discovery is the strongest part of your game. At this deal size the win is decided before the demo. - You multi-thread across functions, not just seniority levels. Name the three departments you had to align in your last big deal. - You've scoped an implementation as part of a sale — not handed it to a solutions team after signature. - You've displaced an incumbent system, or replaced a process a company had already committed to. - You've sold at a startup, pre-seed through Series D, and you know what it's like when the answer to "does the product do that" is sometimes not yet. - You sell consultatively. At this deal size there is no other way. - Grit that shows up somewhere verifiable. NICE TO HAVE - Sold a multi-product platform rather than a point solution - Sold CRM, sales tooling or GTM software — Gong, Outreach, Salesloft, Clari, Apollo, Clay, Attio, Common Room - Ran a displacement motion against Salesforce or HubSpot - Understands forecasting and sales methodology well enough to have an opinion in front of a VP of Sales - Bachelor's from a selective university; engineering or technical undergrad BENEFITS & PERKS - Competitive salary - Meaningful early equity - Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) - 3 weeks of PTO - 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break - 3 months of paid family leave - Wednesdays work from home - Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats - 401k plan - Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend
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