# Founding Account Executive (NYC) at CharacterQuilt

- Company: CharacterQuilt (YC P26)
- What the company does: Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://characterquilt.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/characterquilt/jobs/CDbLjkb-founding-account-executive-nyc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/characterquilt-founding-account-executive-nyc/

## About the role

You'll be one of two founding sales hires. You'll close deals with me (Clint). We have a full marketing engine - dinners, outbound, demand gen - that generates plenty of pipeline. Your job is to close it. And you're working for a founder who has actually done the SDR job and the AE job, not one who thinks sales is a vending machine.

## What they're looking for

- You're one of the smartest people in most rooms you're in. This is the thing we weight above everything else, and we test it directly in the first 20 minutes. Charisma doesn't cover a gap here
- You own a room. You're usually the one at dinner doing most of the talking, and the table is better for it. You can hold a position with a CMO who has decided they know more than you do
- You want to close. Not advise, not strategize, not build - close. Five demos a day and a number against your name
- You've done something hard that wasn't sales. Founded a company, switched fields, ran events, shipped something, learned a language. We care about this more than your quota history
- You take feedback like it's free. Two founders will tell you plainly when you're wrong, most days, and you'd rather have that than a quarterly review

Tags: Sales