About Dust

Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.

With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.

With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast.

We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026.

Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50.

This Role

As an Account Executive at Dust, you'll drive our mission to transform how work gets done through AI. You'll build our customer base among digital native and larger businesses, representing our innovative AI operating system that empowers teams to create the exact agents they need.

Joining Dust also means pioneering a new form of Business Development. As a GenAI-native company, Dust aims to illustrate how GenAI can help redefine the experience customers can expect from software and how sales teams can be designed with GenAI in mind.

You’ll contribute to building a new category from the ground up in a fast-paced environment that encourages a doer attitude and ownership over outcomes as we work to 5x our revenue by the end of 2025.

Responsibilities

1. Business Development & Market Expansion

Evangelize the new paradigm Dust is creating and help Dust truly transform how work gets done.

Drive new business acquisition by targeting digital native and larger businesses

Identify strategic expansion opportunities to generate additional revenue

Drive market expansion by identifying and developing new opportunities, establishing a strong presence in key regions, and building strategic relationships

2. Sales Strategy & Pipeline Management

Manage a pipeline of multi-stakeholder sales opportunities from lead to close, navigating 2-6 month sales cycles

Source quality outbound sales pipeline from target accounts through strategic prospecting

Qualify and manage new opportunities generated by Marketing and other channels

3. Customer Experience & Relationship Management

Provide an exceptional buying experience for our customers that showcases how Dust can transform their work

Seamlessly hand over new customers to the Customer Success team

4. Analytics, Reporting & Strategic Insights

Develop a deep understanding of our target markets, ideal customer profile(s), and value proposition, as well as competitive positioning

Use CRM and other sales tools to manage your pipeline effectively

Report to leadership in weekly forecast meetings and 1:1s

Provide feedback from the market to Product, Marketing, and Dust leadership to inform our product roadmap, target profiles, and go-to-market strategies

Requirements

You’ve met or exceeded your sales targets for 3-4+ years and are experienced in closing 6-figure deals.

3+ years experience selling complex products.

Proven ability to sell in a lean company with few to no sales support & resources (eg: no lead gen, no SDR, no sales playbook)

Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles in the 2-6 month range

Strong prospecting skills—and a willingness to use them.

Proven ability to build deep customer relationships with senior stakeholders at digital native businesses

Customer-centric approach, enjoying the process of learning about prospects' businesses and helping them solve challenges

Growth mindset, eager to learn new skills and methodologies and bring best practices into our business

Collaborative work style, able to partner effectively with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams

Excellent written and spoken English skills and an exceptional feel for language and messaging.