Startups · AI

Account Executive in a fast-growing AI Startup

Lightly · San Francisco / Zürich, Zurich, CH / London, England, GB / Remote (GB; CA; US; CH) · Remote

← All jobs
About Lightly

Help ML teams label the right data. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This job offers you the unique opportunity to join a Y-Combinator-funded company. As an early hire, your role will have a significant impact on our company. The position entails various tasks around building up and executing sales as well as general business development. Some of your key responsibilities would include:

What they're looking for

  • Completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (STEM or business). However, experience and performance matters more than degrees. So apply even if you don’t check all the boxes
  • Based either in the US (remote or in the Bay Area), the UK, or in Zurich, Switzerland. We are open to supporting Visa applications for Switzerland
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Other languages (e.g., French, German, among others are a plus)
  • Strong presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong business acumen and a flair for B2B consultative solution selling
  • Experience with similar customer groups (e.g., in the AI field) is a plus
More about this role

Lightly is a Y-Combinator startup that solves the data problem for AI companies. Its products and services are used by leading companies in autonomous driving, medical imaging, GenAI, and BigTech. Our founders, Matt and Igor, have both struggled with data for their own AI projects and wanted to build a product they could trust themselves.

Lightly consists of a small team of talented software engineers, researchers, and business developers in Zurich and remotely, who all individually impact the business and our product.

As Physical AI and Agentic AI take off, Lightly is positioned to become a major player in the next generation of AI infrastructure. Its flagship product, LightlyStudio, helps AI teams work with multimodal data across video, images, audio, and text.

Complementing the product, Lightly’s GenAI data services business is scaling quickly, with offerings spanning RL gyms, custom data collection, and advanced multimodal annotation.

This job offers you the unique opportunity to join a Y-Combinator-funded company. As an early hire, your role will have a significant impact on our company. The position entails various tasks around building up and executing sales as well as...

Read the full posting on Lightly's site ↗

Sales

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.