Startup Account Executive
Turnkey provides secure, flexible, and scalable wallet infrastructure for creating embedded wallets and automating onchain transactions.
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About Turnkey
Turnkey offers non-custodial key management infrastructure, enabling developers to create embedded wallets, sign transactions, and automate complex onchain actions with a single API. The platform secures private keys through Trusted Execution Environments and supports multiple blockchain ecosystems.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and manage a pipeline of startup prospects through outbound outreach and account research. You will own the full sales cycle, from discovery and evaluation through negotiation and close. You will engage founders, developers, and technical leaders at communities, hackathons, meetups, conferences, and startup events. You will develop hands-on knowledge of APIs and SDKs, deliver technical demos, help prospects evaluate integrations, maintain accurate forecasts in Attio, meet quota, and improve the startup sales motion.
Requirements
- 1–3 years of experience in a quota-carrying sales role
- Ability to create and close new business
- Experience selling to startups, developers, founders, or technical buyers is a plus
- Experience owning the full sales cycle
- Written and verbal communication
- Knowledge of crypto, payments, fintech, developer products, or technical infrastructure
- Ability to learn and explain complex products
- Discovery and opportunity qualification
- Organization and follow-through across opportunities and stakeholders
- Experience working with founders, senior leaders, and technical teams
Responsibilities
- Build and manage a pipeline of startup prospects through self-sourced outbound and account research
- Run the full sales cycle from outreach and discovery through evaluation, negotiation, and close
- Engage founders, product leaders, engineering leaders, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and buying process
- Participate in developer communities, hackathons, meetups, conferences, and startup events
- Develop expertise with APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure and deliver technical demos
- Answer developer questions and help startups integrate the platform into their applications
- Coordinate product, engineering, and GTM partners for technical or commercial support
- Help developers progress from exploration to deployment and paid adoption
- Identify developer-journey friction and improve technical resources, demos, and onboarding
- Maintain pipeline records, next steps, and forecasts in Attio
- Meet quota and track pipeline, opportunity, and revenue metrics
- Test sales messaging and approaches and share market and customer feedback
- Set up post-close handoffs and support customer onboarding
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- HSA/FSA
- 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Multiple team offsites per year
- Lunch stipend
