Account Executive - AI Native, EMEA

Modal · London, UK

Open 5 days

New Business + Account Growth: you win new customers and grow existing ones.

Base: Not disclosed
OTE: $300K
Quota attainment: Not disclosed
Posted: 6d 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

Find and win new startups in Europe, the Middle East and Africa that build products on AI. You'll sell to founders and tech leaders, help them grow their usage as it rises, and find most of your own leads.

What you'd sell

Gives AI apps the powerful computers they need, on demand

When a startup builds an app that uses AI, it usually has to rent or buy its own powerful chips and set them up before anything works. The problem is, that setup takes time and skill, and while the app waits, its users get slow answers. Modal gives developers instant access to those powerful chips, so their AI apps respond fast without anyone setting up hardware.

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Who you'd sell to

Founders, tech heads, AI team leaders at AI startupsIn their words: “Sell directly to founders, CTOs, and heads of ML who define the ideal customer and hold the budget from day one.”

Where deals come from

Mostly you. Expect a lot of outbound: cold calls, emails and LinkedIn.

The Braun Read

Strong posting

More honest than most. You know what you're walking into.

Pay: OTE is listed. Ask what the base is.
Transparency: Shares 2 of 5. Mentions territory and sales cycle. Ask about quota, attainment and deal size.
Time on market: Open 5 days.
Company hiring: 3 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace.

Red lights

None spotted.

Green lights

Publishes OTE. It tells you the on-target earnings up front. Most postings don't.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?
Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.
5.
What's the base, and how is the rest paid out?

Before You Apply

Find out where you fit, and where you don't, before you hit submit.

Why I built it this way ↓

Most résumé tools try to make you look like a match. I'd rather help you find out if you are one.

Nothing made up.
Nothing goes on your résumé that you didn't do. If a line would need a number you didn't give me, I ask. I don't guess. On Braun Board it's checked in code, not just promised.
Curiosity before conclusions.
If the job wants something your résumé doesn't show, I ask before I assume. Plenty of sellers have done the thing and just never wrote it down.
Sorting, not selling.
Some jobs won't line up with what you've done. Finding that out before you apply isn't a loss. It's an hour back, spent on a job that fits.
No score.
A match score tells you how well you copied their words. It doesn't tell you whether you'd be good at the job, or happy there.

It's the same way I teach selling. We don't control who says yes. We do control where we spend our time, and whether everything we say is true.

Josh

1 Is the job worth it?

Strong posting. More honest than most. You know what you're walking into.

No red lights. If it fits what you want, the tools below help you get ready.

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2 Where you fit

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What people say about working at Modal ↓

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Full posting

ABOUT US: AI NEEDS A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER. WE'RE BUILDING IT AT MODAL. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Ramp https://modal.com/blog/how-ramp-built-a-full-context-background-coding-agent-on-modal, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We've passed $1B in annualized run rate, up 15x from a year ago. In October 2026 we raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn,Luigi https://github.com/spotify/luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. THE ROLE: We’re hiring an Account Executive to win and grow Modal’s relationships with AI-native companies: the startups and scale-ups building their products on models from day one. These teams move fast, so our sales cycle does too. Deals often move forward from the very first call, and you’ll usually be talking directly with the founder or technical leader who owns the budget. You’ll own the full cycle, from sourcing to close to expansion, and you’ll partner closely with our founders, engineering, and product teams. You’ll also help build Modal’s presence in the developer community, because in this market, the best pipeline comes from engineers who already love the product. The ideal candidate has an engineering background, has worked as a solutions architect or in a similar technical role, and has since moved into selling. You’re as comfortable debugging a cold-start issue with an ML engineer as you are negotiating terms with a CEO. WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Own a book of AI-native accounts and close new business quickly, often moving from first call to signed deal in weeks rather than quarters. - Sell directly to founders, CTOs, and heads of ML who define the ideal customer and hold the budget from day one. - Get hands-on in technical conversations: scope workloads, set up quick proofs of concept, and show customers how Modal fits into their stack. - Spot expansion early and help fast-growing customers scale their inference, training, and sandbox workloads as their usage takes off. - Help build and engage Modal’s developer community through events, meetups, open-source channels, and word of mouth. - Bring sharp, structured customer feedback to our product and engineering teams to shape the roadmap. - Help define how Modal sells to AI-native companies, including the playbooks, pricing motions, and processes we’ll scale as the team grows. REQUIREMENTS: - An engineering background, followed by time as a solutions architect, sales engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role, and now experience as a closing seller. - Current or recent experience at an AI-native company, ideally selling infrastructure, ML/AI, or developer tools. - A track record of selling directly to founders and technical leaders and closing deals quickly in a high-velocity sales cycle. - Experience building or engaging a developer community, or a clear point of view on how community drives pipeline. - Enough technical depth to go deep on GPUs, inference, containers, and model training with engineers, without needing a sales engineer in the room. - Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills. - Comfort in a fast-moving, early-stage environment and excitement about building processes from the ground up. - Ability to work in person from our office 5 days a week.

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