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Account Executive, SLED (West)

Cohere · United States · Remote

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About Cohere

Backed by AI Grant.

About the role

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! As an Account Executive at Cohere you will have ownership of the full sales cycle - from identifying leads to closing deals, with State, Local and Higher Education customers in the Western region of the United States.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of direct public sector sales experience in the SLED Market, with a proven track record of closing $2M+ annual quotas
  • Deep knowledge of SLED procurement cycles and decision-making processes, how to work with resellers, VARs and distributors
  • Established regional network, including state and local departments and agencies, prime contractors, and industry associations
  • Experience selling SaaS, AI/ML, or enterprise software solutions to government clients
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, you are both a strategist and a hands-on operator capable of building a market from the ground up
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders across fast-moving deals
More about this role

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

As an Account Executive at Cohere you will have ownership of the full sales cycle - from identifying leads to closing deals, with State, Local and Higher Education customers in the Western region of the United States.

In this role you will be focussed on business development activity within the government departments and agencies at the state and local...

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