Strategic Account Executive

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Prolific

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🤝 B2B

AI • B2B • Research

Prolific is a platform that facilitates fast and high-quality data collection by connecting researchers with participants, including AI taskers. Researchers can launch tasks, surveys, and experiments and receive responses from a global community of over 200,000 active participants within hours. Prolific prides itself on providing accurate and detailed data while ensuring that participants are fairly rewarded for their contributions. The platform is trusted by leading academics and organizations for its flexibility, simplicity, and rapid project execution.

📋 Description

• Prolific’s Strategic team works with frontier labs around the world, landing new projects and use cases with research AI / ML research teams while expanding our footprint of solutions and services across those organizations. • As a Strategic Account Executive, you’ll be at the forefront of driving customer growth, executive sponsorship, and value delivery for the companies making headlined every day. • Working cross-functionally with Prolific's Science, Services, Success, Marketing, Product, and Executive teams to drive meaningful growth. • Own and drive net-new and expansion sales cycles within named frontier AI labs, targeting AI Research, Product, and Executive teams actively building AI capabilities. • Understand customer workflows and pain points—positioning Prolific as the source of high-integrity human data for model training, evaluation, and experience design. • Map and multi-thread enterprise buying groups to build trust, identify champions, and mitigate risk across stakeholders. • Partner closely with Services, Success, Solutions Engineering, Product Marketing, and Leadership to shape proposals, pilots, and post-sale success plans. • Report pipeline metrics, deal health, and forecasting to sales leadership with rigor and clarity. • Act as the voice of the enterprise customer—bringing feedback to Marketing and Product to refine our messaging, pricing, and roadmap. • Collaborating in person in our San Francisco office and on customer campuses across the West Coast (as well as occasional events, conferences, and trips to other Prolific offices)

🎯 Requirements

• Consistent Track record of managing highly complex technical sales cycles with 7-figure and 8-figure outcomes • 10+ years of experience in full-cycle strategic B2B technology sales • A strong understanding of how large organizations buy—especially within AI Research, Product, and Technical Program Management functions • Curiosity and fluency around AI/ML trends, including RLHF, user-in-the-loop evaluation, and human-centered product design • Experience running multi-threaded deals with complex stakeholder groups (e.g. product leaders, research ops, legal/procurement, and technical buyers) • Strong discovery, qualification, and collaboration skills—grounded in value-based selling while earning the credibility and trust of pioneers of AI research. • High empathy, accountability, and cross-functional teamwork with Customer Success, Services, Marketing, Leadership, etc.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Benefits • Remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture