Enterprise Account Executive

Welcome to the video first world!

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video.

Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now….

Meet Synthesia

We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. We’ve raised over $150M in funding from top-tier investors, including Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Google and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

About the role…

Synthesia is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to join us in the US. Reporting to one of our regional Head of Enterprise Sales, you will be tasked with generating, establishing and closing opportunities within your designated accounts in our Enterprise segment, which is between 1000 and 10,000 employees. Central to this role is the ability to effectively communicate value, inspire prospects, and successfully sell the value of the Synthesia solution. We have ambitious revenue goals this year, and you will play a huge role in how the Enterprise team contributes to this. We are ideally looking for folks based in NYC or Texas (where our regional heads are), however, are open to applications from candidates in East or Central time zones.

We’re going through an exciting stage of our growth under the new leadership of our CRO. We aspire to create a world-class sales organisation where the most talented, relentless sales-people can thrive. If you’re someone excited by making an impact and hungry for opportunity, then we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing…

• Running a full sales cycle within our Enterprise customers from cold outreach to close.
• With full ownership of your pipeline, you will build your own account plans and identifying top targets within those accounts.
• Use MEDDPICC to accurately qualify and identify risk across all opportunities throughout the sales funnel.
• Selling across lines of business (such as HR, L&D, Customer Care, and Marketing).
• In your accounts, you'll expand Synthesia’s footprint to additional teams that can benefit from the solution.
• Manage all sales activities in the CRM (Salesforce).

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• Successful outbound sales experience where you've closed Enterprise sized accounts.
• A PG mindset, with strong experience in outbound prospecting into new accounts and conducting product demonstrations in a value-based sales environment.
• The ability to identify client pain points and develop unique and compelling value propositions focused on delivering ROI.
• Experience in reputable, value-driven, methodological sales environments, ideally using MEDDPICC, CoM, or similar.
• Strong business acumen and examples of how you’ve built business value and champions across organisations.
• You've experienced rapid growth and understand the opportunities and challenges that it can bring - and you thrive in it! 
• Executive presence tied with exceptional verbal and written English.

We’d be particularly excited if you have…

• Experience with video SAAS
• Experience and interest in AI 

Culture 

At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.

Benefits

Salary: We aim to be competitive based on location, 50/50 split + share options

Our culture 

At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here. 

Benefits

• A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series C startup 
• Hybrid working environment 
• Discretionary based bonus 
• 100% Medical, Dental & Vision 
• 401k Plan 
• Paid parental leave 
• 25 days of annual leave + Public holidays + paid sick leave 
• Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats 
• A generous referral scheme 
• A brand new computer + monitor