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Founding Account Executive

Location
Zurich
Employment Type
Full-time
Location Type
On-site
Level
Mid-Senior Level

The opportunity

Physical security is entering a transformative decade. Cameras have multiplied, perimeters have grown, and threats have evolved - but the number of human operators watching screens has not. We build the intelligent software that changes that: a hardware-agnostic brain that turns any robot and any existing camera into a single, coordinated monitoring force that sees everything and misses nothing.

We are a founding team based in Zurich, backed by strong investors, and we are engineering the future of security today.

The role

As our Founding Account Executive, you will own go-to-market execution as the first dedicated sales hire, working directly alongside the CEO. Founder-led sales has taken us this far - now it is time to expand the commercial engine.

You will own the day-to-day execution of the full sales cycle and build the playbook as you go. Early on this is a true partnership: the founder is in the room with you on the key deals, and as you build the motion you take more and more of it end to end. You are the player-coach of our sales team - on the field closing deals yourself now, and building and coaching the team that closes the next hundred.

If you want a defined playbook handed to you, this is not the role. If you want to write it, this is.

What you'll own

  • Full-cycle sales - source, qualify, run discovery and demos, negotiate, and close

  • Enterprise B2B - win and grow commercial customers across enterprise and industrial critical infrastructure, where cycles move faster and land-and-expand is the play

  • Public sector and defence (B2G) - run longer government and defence cycles including procurement, tenders, and framework agreements

  • Pilots to contracts - scope, sell, and run paid pilots (POCs) that convert into long-term contracts

  • Founder-led sales, transitioned - co-sell key early deals with the CEO, then take them fully end to end as the playbook takes shape

  • Pipeline and CRM - keep every opportunity clean and current, with follow-ups that never slip

  • The playbook - capture what works, sharpen the ICP, and feed real customer signal back to product

  • Forecasting - honest and ambitious pipeline

What we look for

  • 3+ years of full-cycle B2B sales with a verifiable record of closing, not just sourcing

  • Proven at self-sourcing pipeline - you do not wait for inbound to save you

  • Startup or early-stage experience, ideally as an early or founding sales hire; comfortable with ambiguity and no infrastructure

  • Technically literate - you don't need to code, but you must credibly sell a genuinely technical product to sophisticated buyers

  • AI-fluent and unmistakably human - proficient with AI tools for research, drafting, and speed, but you bring high EQ, read the room, and build real relationships

  • Organised and self-directed on the unglamorous parts: follow-ups, CRM hygiene, and clean deal documentation

  • High agency, high reliability, high ambition

  • Based in or willing to relocate to Zurich

Nice to have:

  • Experience selling into government or defence (procurement, RFPs, framework agreements)

  • Background selling deeptech, hardware, security, robotics, computer vision, or complex enterprise software

  • Experience with a subscription or recurring-revenue product

  • An existing network of security operators, integrators, or buyers in DACH and UK

  • German language proficiency

What we offer

  • Ownership - you are the commercial function, and first in line to build and lead the team you help hire

  • Career path - prove the motion and you grow into Head of Sales, then VP Sales

  • Team - work directly with PhD-level co-founders in AI, Robotics, and Physics alongside a strong founding team

  • Compensation - competitive salary and equity package

  • Location - in-person in Zurich, Switzerland; visa and relocation support available

  • Mission - autonomous security that keeps people and critical sites safe, including in defence

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