Lead Account Executive
$125k - $150k USD
Drive Growth. Achieve Your Goals. Earn What You’re Worth.
Join a high-growth, high-performance sales culture where top talent thrives.
The Role You’ll Play
As a Lead Account Executive at CB Insights, you’ll be at the forefront of closing high-value enterprise deals, guiding qualified prospects toward becoming long-term partners. This role is for true hunters—sales professionals with a proven history of building pipeline, closing net-new business, and outperforming quota year after year.
If you're excited by venture capital, emerging tech trends, and high-growth SaaS sales, this is your opportunity to sell a market-leading product with a proven track record of success.
We provide you with the resources, support, and autonomy to build and manage your book of business—including an SDR team to fuel your pipeline and a collaborative sales culture that drives success. Our product has clear product-market fit, yet we’ve only scratched the surface of our total addressable market. If you're a self-starter who thrives in fast-paced environments and wants to be part of a company scaling aggressively, this is the place for you.
This role reports to a SVP of Sales and is based in New York City. We do meet in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Salary listed below is the BASE salary.
Why You’ll Love It Here
- At the Center of the AI Economy – We provide the data that’s powering today’s AI-driven decisions.
- Lucrative Compensation & Uncapped Earning Potential – Top performers consistently exceed quota.
- Best-in-Class Product – Sell a product customers love, backed by strong market demand.
- High-Performance Culture – Join an elite sales team that values energy, collaboration, and ambition.
- Career Acceleration – Top sales talent at CB Insights earns early exposure to enterprise-level deals and leadership opportunities.
- Unmatched Exposure – Work alongside some of the best minds in SaaS sales while gaining insight into cutting-edge technology trends, venture capital, and corporate strategy.
What You’ll Do
- Own the full sales cycle; from initial outreach to close for our largest enterprise accounts.
- Run highly effective strategic sales conversations with C-Level decision-makers.
- Partner cross-functionally with inbound SDRs who generate qualified demand, Solution Consultants who deliver compelling, value-driven product demonstrations, and Account Managers who ensure a seamless handoff and foster long-term, successful customer relationships.
- Leverage data-driven sales tactics to consistently exceed quota and contribute to team revenue goals.
- Forecast revenue accurately and maintain detailed pipeline tracking in Salesforce.
- Work closely with product and marketing teams to continuously refine our sales approach.
What You Bring to the Table
- At least 8 years of experience selling SaaS or complex technology solutions with a proven ability to close deals.
- A track record of exceeding $1M+ annual quotas in a high-growth environment.
- Strong ability to sell to VP and C-level executives in large organizations.
- Exceptional presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Deep understanding of venture capital, private markets, and emerging technology trends (preferred).
- Knowledge of leading data integration methods.
- While you’ll be supported by a steady stream of inbound demand and an assigned book of existing accounts, you bring a contributive network that actively generates new opportunities and expands our reach.
- Experience using Salesforce, Gong, sales intelligence tools, and outbound prospecting strategies.
Please note this is a US-based role.
In addition to base salary listed below, this role is also eligible for commission.
Compensation
$125,000—$150,000 USD
What we're all about
CB Insights is the leader in predictive intelligence on private companies—turning exclusive data on millions of firms into early, trusted signals on future performance and direction. The company pioneered predictive intelligence with its Mosaic Score—the first system to reliably forecast the outlook for a private company—and has since built it into a comprehensive platform of AI and data capabilities. Today, leading strategy, investment, and business development teams rely on CB Insights to identify the right companies, markets, and opportunities before their competitors do.
CB Insights Leadership Principles
At CB Insights, everyone is expected to be a leader. These leadership principles are like an operating system for our culture. Use the principles as a practical guide to making decisions.
We are what we repeatedly do. By living the principles outlined below, we will build an outstanding company and do insanely great work.
- Solve customer problems. It’s our highest calling. Designing a product? Start from the customer problem it solves. Updating our sales process? Flip it around, and simplify the customer buying process.
- Think BIG! Start small. Great changes start with a first step. Find it. Take it. Build a system around what works. This is the secret to bringing a vision to life.
- Go and see with your own eyes. Meet the customer, use the product, talk to the field. Great systems aren’t built from afar.
- Priorities: Choose one. Leaders give the gift of clarity. They find the most important thing and do it. Max power. Top speed.
- Danger zones:
- Bureaucracy. May the best ideas and execution win.
- Complexity. Leaders use frameworks and systems to simplify.
- No commitment. Leaders don’t compromise just to get along. Debate. Disagree. But once a decision is made, commit.
- Leaving what’s important unsaid or undone. No “circling back.”
- Data informs. Insight transforms. Pull the thread. Ask why. Leaders are curious. They use what they learn to create clarity.
- Insist on excellence. Leaders set high standards and overcome obstacles. They do the kind of work they’re excited to share with the world.
- Live off the land. Leaders creatively use resources already available to them – especially AI – to execute and automate their work.
- Good judgment. Leaders have it. Where it comes from: insight, listening, first-hand experience. How to apply it: carefully on big, hard to reverse decisions. Swiftly on limited, easy to reverse ones.
- Help others. Leaders know we’re building this together.
You’ll want to work here if
- You are excited about how AI is transforming tech
- You are hungry for feedback and the chance to grow
- Your instinct is to work smarter not harder
- You love developing as a SME with a strong POV
- You are motivated by challenges and big ideas
- You believe in radical personal accountability
You don’t want to work here if:
- You are a tech pessimist
- Radical Candor is not your style
- You like to build big processes
- You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details
- You prefer to operate in your comfort zone
- You expect to be judged by outputs instead of outcomes
What we offer:
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- Holistic compensation: Competitive cash compensation, comprehensive healthcare coverage (PPO, HSA, and FSA options), multiple mental health resources, 401(k) with company match, annual professional development stipend, and generous paid time off.
About Our Pay Practices
We believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence. Our commitment to fairness means that compensation decisions are informed by qualifications, location, internal equity, and current market data. While we aim to hire at our established Hiring Target, starting pay may vary based on factors such as market rates, the qualified pool of candidates, and individual experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At CB Insights we know that innovation comes from collaboration, belonging, and diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - all applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.