Enterprise Account Executive, Central US
Designer Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech companies using design to improve health, sustainability, or prosperity for people. It backs founding teams, particularly those with design backgrounds, across sectors like fintech, healthcare, climate tech, and developer tools.
About Designer Fund
Designer Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in tech companies leveraging design to drive positive outcomes in health, sustainability, and financial prosperity. Its portfolio spans a wide range of sectors including financial infrastructure (Stripe), preventative health (Omada), collaborative tools (Notion), developer tools (Netlify), product management (Linear), payroll and benefits (Gusto), design tools (Framer), and healthcare infrastructure (Commure), among dozens of other companies across fintech, climate tech, healthcare, EdTech, and AI. The firm also runs 'Designer Founders,' a community and platform highlighting designers who have gone on to found and lead companies, reflecting its focus on backing design-driven founders and design-centric startups from early stages through growth and acquisition.
Skills
About the Role
You'll lead sales for your region across both public and private sectors, helping cities move toward more inclusive, sustainable, tech-enabled transportation. You'll own a revenue target and run your market end-to-end: finding opportunities, building the right relationships, and turning big mobility ideas into real, closed deals. You'll go far beyond traditional sales, working side-by-side with cities and private operators to define what great mobility looks like and turn it into real, deployed systems. This is a remote-first role based in the US Central region, ideally for candidates in Chicago or the broader Midwest, though other locations including Texas are open.
Requirements
- Minimum of 4+ years of client facing experience with a record of achievement in Sales, Business Development, Consulting, or similar space
- Consultative sales experience and ability to use data to build a compelling narrative
- Skilled and methodical researcher comfortable with complex problems and new environments
- Intuitive communicator across customer conversations, product presentations, and written proposals
- Strong commercial intuition and judgment for maximizing deal value
- Reliable, motivated self-starter with a growth mentality, comfortable in fast-paced environments
- Strong team player and mentor to others on the team
Responsibilities
- Identify prospective partners in your territory and build meaningful and durable revenue-generating relationships with a diverse group of prospective clients, from elected officials to private-sector business leaders
- Lead execution and strategy for full-cycle sales efforts across your territory
- Strategically navigate your market's unique buying landscape using research and strong analytical skills to build compelling data-driven business cases
- Demonstrate the value proposition across a range of verticals
- Educate and consult with prospective clients to develop regional transit plans and find funding mechanisms within your market
- Champion the mission and technology as the face of Via by leading local marketing campaigns, speaking at conferences, and providing thought leadership in the mobility space
Benefits
- Free medical plans
- 401K matching