Technical Account Executive

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🔧 Technical Account Manager

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FirstPrinciples

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Science • SaaS

FirstPrinciples is a research company building AI systems for discovery in fundamental science. It develops domain-specialized models and tools (branded Theo: Theo Collaborator, Theo Conjecture, and Theo, the AI Physicist) to assist the scientific process—hypothesis generation, symbolic reasoning, tool integration, validation loops, and reproducible research objects. The company emphasizes transparency, stewardship of knowledge as a public good, and alignment with the scientific community. Technical claims include multiple fine-tuned models across physics domains, a model family with 120B+ parameters trained on a curated corpus of 3M+ scientific papers, and internal experiments in areas like quantum information.

📋 Description

• Develop fluency in customers’ technical domains, research programs, and scientific problems to identify where FirstPrinciples can create value • Prepare targeted account strategies and outreach based on understanding of each organization and its work • Build relationships and pipeline across commercial R&D teams, industry researchers, research groups, national laboratories, and other research-intensive organizations • Own the end-to-end commercial lifecycle from prospecting and qualification through discovery, demos, proposals, and close • Run technically credible discovery conversations and product demos connecting researchers’ goals to concrete product use cases • Help prospective customers structure pilot plans, establish success criteria, and build confidence in adopting the platform • Navigate stakeholders across scientific, technical, administrative, procurement, and leadership functions • Partner with Research Partners throughout discovery, evaluation, onboarding, and expansion • Bring market feedback, objections, and emerging use cases to product, research, and engineering • Build scalable systems for outreach, qualification, account planning, CRM management, follow-up, and forecasting • Own pipeline, conversion, and revenue goals while helping define the early sales playbook

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptionally curious and analytical, with the ability to rapidly develop fluency in unfamiliar technical and scientific domains • High agency and learning velocity; comfortable being dropped into a complex topic, figuring it out quickly, and operating without an established playbook • Able to form strong, testable points of view from incomplete information, grounded in first-principles reasoning • Enjoy doing the work before the meeting: reading papers, researching companies, understanding unfamiliar technical problems, and developing a point of view • Commercially minded and excited by turning complex technology into customer relationships, adoption, and revenue • Strong communicator who asks sharp questions, listens carefully, leads credible discovery conversations, and can move an opportunity toward a decision • Able to understand complex research goals and translate technical capabilities into clear, credible value • Comfortable initiating conversations, prospecting into new organizations, and building relationships from the ground up • Persistent and highly organized; able to follow through, maintain momentum, and be accountable for measurable commercial outcomes • May come from sales, investing, consulting, banking, data/analytics, a technical startup, scientific commercialization, or another highly analytical environment; traditional enterprise sales experience is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• The opportunity to work on foundational problems at the intersection of AI and physics • A high-trust, low-bureaucracy environment with real ownership • Remote-first work with flexibility in how you structure your day • Exposure to cutting-edge ideas across AI, scientific discovery, and emerging technologies • A culture that values curiosity, depth of thinking, and first-principles reasoning • The chance to contribute to work aimed at advancing fundamental science