Founding Account Executive at Nowadays (S23)
$80K - $120K  •  0.50% - 1.00%
AI co-pilot for corporate retreat and event planning
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
Any (new grads ok)
About Nowadays

Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.

We’ve proudly planned events ranging from Amazon’s intimate executive dinners in New York, to Quantstamp’s product launch in Turkey, to Google’s offsite at Universal. Within the first 6 months of launching, Nowadays has experienced exponential growth, growing from $0 to $2M in booked revenue from customers including Amazon, Google, and Notion.

Nowadays’ leadership team is comprised of talented MIT software engineering graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.

About the role

☀️ About Nowadays

We’re building the future of in-person connection—from intimate exec offsites to conference-scale company retreats.

Nowadays is the first AI-powered platform for planning corporate events. Our software handles everything from venue sourcing to vendor negotiations, making it dramatically faster and easier for teams to meet IRL.

We’ve planned events around the world for companies like Google, Amazon, and Quantstamp—and we’re just getting started.

Our mission is simple: make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments together.


👥 Who We Are

We’re a sister-founded team based in San Francisco. We move fast, care deeply, and genuinely love bringing people together—whether it’s a strategic offsite or a Friendsgiving in our Nowadays home.

We believe the best teams:

  • Take ownership
  • Stay scrappy
  • Celebrate wins (big and small)
  • Actually enjoy working and hanging out together

Some of our favorite team moments so far:

  • Flying trapeze
  • Steak-offs at home
  • Hauling a Christmas tree up to the office
  • Post-launch spa days
  • Racing an Ironman Relay

💼 What You’ll Do (Founding AE)

  • Own the full sales cycle from first convo to close
  • Partner closely with the founders on early GTM strategy and messaging
  • Sell to event marketers, people teams, EAs, and agencies
  • Run discovery calls, demos, and pricing conversations confidently
  • Build and refine our sales playbook, pipeline, and CRM workflows
  • Bring customer feedback directly into product decisions
  • Help define what “great sales” looks like at Nowadays from day one

🥇 What We’re Looking For

  • Experience closing deals in B2B SaaS (SMB → mid-market ideal)
  • Comfort selling a product that’s still evolving
  • Strong product intuition and ability to tailor messaging by persona
  • Scrappy, proactive, and excited by ambiguity
  • Relationship-driven—genuinely want customers to succeed
  • Motivated to be early and shape the motion, not just execute

Bonus Points

  • Experience selling to event, marketing, HR, or ops teams
  • Zero-to-one startup sales experience
  • Comfort with pricing and negotiation
  • Experience working closely with product and engineering

📝 The Details

Comp: $80K–$120K base + commission + ~0.5% equity (flexible based on experience)
Location: In-person, San Francisco

Perks:

  • Free lunch + dinner
  • Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
  • Monthly fitness stipend
  • Health insurance
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave
  • Generous PTO + required time off to recharge
  • High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
  • Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences

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