Founding Account Executive at Voicepanel (W24)
$240K - $280K  •  0.50% - 1.00%
AI agents for customer research
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
6+ years
About Voicepanel

Voicepanel is a Y Combinator-backed startup transforming how companies gather feedback from their customers. Our AI-native platform empowers research and product teams to precisely measure what their customers think about any topic — products, prototypes, brand sentiment, and more. We do this by automating time-consuming & expensive processes, typically performed by research agencies, with easy-to-use software.

We are working on a $140B+ market opportunity, we’re growing fast, and we’re already selling to major brands who are shifting budgets to more modern approaches for research. We are now assembling a world-class team to help us scale. In 2026, we’ll be taking our platform to the next level by building the agent infrastructure for customer insights — enabling companies to build custom agents that bring the voice of the customer into every product decision.

About the role

Voicepanel is building the next era of customer-centric product development. Today, companies ship products without truly knowing if customers understand or want them. Traditional research methods—surveys, focus groups, manual interviews—power a $140B industry that hasn’t kept pace with how modern teams operate in an AI-first world.

Voicepanel changes this with customizable AI agents that recruit participants, collect feedback, and synthesize clear, actionable recommendations. Teams move from open questions to confident, customer-driven decisions in days, not quarters. We’re already partnering with leading global brands and hypergrowth startups to unlock a fundamentally new way of building products with customers at the center.

We’re a veteran team of product builders and operators (formerly Google, Microsoft, and Apple). Our business is growing quickly, and we’re backed by leading investors including Y Combinator and founders of Dropbox, Instacart, Optimizely, and Gusto.


About the role:

This is an opportunity to join a high-velocity startup at the ground floor. As our first GTM hire, you’ll help design and execute our sales motion, scaling the business from $XM to $XXM+ in ARR.

  • Own the end-to-end pipeline, including outbound strategy, systems, and messaging
  • Turn early enterprise wins into repeatable, scalable GTM playbooks
  • Lead weekly deal reviews with full visibility into product roadmap and P&L
  • Help define the GTM culture and operating cadence for the company’s next decade
  • Competitive salary, performance-based variable comp, and meaningful early-stage equity

This role reports directly to the CEO and is a career-defining opportunity for someone hungry to build.

What you’ll own:

  • Pipeline & outbound
    • Research ICPs, generate target account & lead lists
    • Maintain & improve our automated outbound stack (Apollo, HubSpot, Clay, Heyreach, etc.)
    • Manage cold outbound with a focus on product & marketing leadership (e.g. CPO, CMO, CEO)
    • Build prospect relationships at industry conferences & events
  • Full-cycle closing
    • Run discovery & demos for prospects
    • Build proposals and revenue cases
    • Negotiate 6 figure multi-year contracts
    • Expand existing accounts into multi-team deployments
  • GTM strategy
    • Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO on pricing, positioning, and sales assets
    • Influence product roadmap based on enterprise prospect feedback
    • Help hire and mentor the future sales team


Required qualifications:

  • 5+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience, including 2+ years of enterprise sales
  • Have sold 6+ figure, multi-team contracts to large enterprises
  • Comfortable doing SDR work directly (you won’t be handed pipeline)
  • Technical enough to build outbound automations & learn the product deeply
  • Hungry, competitive, and excited by ownership
  • Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time
  • Strongly preferred: experience at a high-velocity early-stage startup
  • Ideal candidate has previously sold to product, marketing, or research teams

Benefits:

  • $240K-$280K OTE
  • 0.5%-1% equity
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Fully covered travel for conferences, offsites & retreats
Technology

If you like these technologies, you’ll love working at Voicepanel: TypeScript, NextJS, Supabase, ChakraUI, and many others :)

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