# Account Executive at Petual

- Company: Petual
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.petual.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/petual/2bfe5bd7-ae24-4286-a11c-ea6d8750c1c8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/petual-account-executive/

## About the role

We're hiring Account Executives to sell Petual into internal audit, risk, and compliance functions at public companies and highly regulated enterprises. SOX compliance is our wedge, and our customers already span the full range of the market, from companies in their first year post-IPO to some of the largest public companies in the world.

## What they're looking for

- A track record closing complex, technical software into regulated industries: financial services, healthcare, or similar
- A background as an audit, risk, or compliance practitioner (Big 4, internal audit, SOX program work). Practitioners consistently outperform generalist sellers in front of this buyer
- Experience selling GRC, audit, security, or fintech software, or another category where the buyer is personally accountable for the outcome
- Experience as an early Account Executive at a startup, where you built the motion rather than inherited it
- Comfort selling an AI-native product to detail-oriented, appropriately skeptical buyers, and the judgment to know what not to promise
- The ability to brief an executive audience on a technical subject and hold up under rapid-fire questions

Tags: Sales