Founding (Senior) Account Executive
Job Summary
Were building the platform for creating consumer-facing AI voice agents.
Phone calls have long had a bad reputation. All of us have been stuck in long waiting queues dealt with unhelpful support agents or listened to endless hold music. Even though voice is the most natural way to communicate it has never scaled for businesses.
We believe that every B2C company in the world - from energy providers to telecoms to insurances - will have AI voice agents that interact with their customers. The number of business-to-consumer conversations over the phone is going to explode in the coming years. As LLMs get better and better it will become an absolute no-brainer to use voice agents to provide consumers with a great experience.
The opportunity is massive and we know we can win.
Your mission
You will be pivotal for tellis growth. Your mission is to drive revenue by building trusted relationships with enterprise customers and closing deals. As our first experienced enterprise sales hire youll help us 10x telli from the ground up.
what youll do:
Own large deals end-to-end: Discovery demos security review procurement contract redlines you carry the deal from the first call through signature uncovering tellis value for the customer
Generate the your own pipeline: Our BDR team supports you; they dont replace you. You target the accounts you write the outbound you make the calls
Multi-thread complex buying committees: Heads of Sales Operations CX Legal IT Security Procurement and CFOs at companies of 500 to 10000 employees. You build the relationships before procurement comes in to test them
Own a quota and hit revenue targets: Close large deals that meaningfully contribute to tellis growth
Shape tellis enterprise playbook: qualification multi-thread strategy executive engagement pricing. What works for you becomes the team standard
Feed structured signal back into product marketing and strategy: You sit closest to the customer. Your input shapes what we build next
what makes you a great fit:
You have 1-4 years experience closing complex high-value deals: youve sold high 5-figure or 6-figure contracts to c-suite economic buyers. Mid-market experience is fine if youve consistently been top of your team and have closed enterprise customers before
Youre an elite relationship builder: you know the difference between a contact and a champion and youve won deals because of that distinction. Buyers trust you before they trust your product
Youre a hunter: you know how to manufacture pipeline without a warm inbound stream and you dont complain when its hard
You have executive presence: you can hold a room with a C-Suite from the first interaction. Your credibility is immediate and natural not earned over multiple meetings
Youre obsessively prepared: you know more about the prospects situation than they expect you to every time
Youre low ego and high accountability: youre not above doing the grunt work. Youre competitive with yourself first. You take feedback you act on it and you share credit when you win
You speak business-level German and English
You want to work on-site 5 days a week in Berlin
you may not be a good fit if:
You wait for pipeline to be handed to you. Founding AE means you generate
You need detailed instructions and shy away from taking responsibility
You only show up for the strategic parts of the deal and skip the procurement/security-review grunt work
Youve never personally carried a quota or closed deals end-to-end
You want to work remotely. Were an in-person team
You think a Founding role looks like a 9-to-5 job
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Enhance your sales with AI phone calls that convert. telli’s AI Sales Agent automates outreach, boosts engagement by 3X, and reduces costs by 70%. Fully CRM-integrated for seamless operations.