Recruiting · AI Account Executive & Solutions Engineer

Hire account executives and solutions engineers who can sell AI.

Selling AI is different from selling SaaS. Buyers are sceptical, deals involve security and legal review, and the product changes every quarter. We find sellers who can handle that.

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What great looks like

  • Can explain what the product does and does not do, without overpromising
  • Comfortable with technical buyers, security reviews and proof-of-concept deals
  • Learns a fast-changing product quickly
  • Has closed complex deals with multiple stakeholders
  • Solutions engineers who can build a credible demo on the customer's own data

Where we find them

Strong AI sellers often come from developer tools, data infrastructure, security and enterprise SaaS, where technical buyers were the norm. We assess how they sell, not just their quota history, using behavioural assessment and structured scenarios.

Where hiring for this role goes wrong

  • Hiring on quota attainment alone, from markets that do not transfer
  • No technical screen for solutions engineers
  • Ignoring how candidates handle buyer scepticism about AI
  • Mismatched expectations on ramp time for a new category

How an AI search runs with us

01

Calibrate the role, not the resume.

We turn the hiring manager's real bar into a behavioural scorecard: what great looks like in the first 90 days, which trade-offs matter, and which signals on a CV are noise.

02

AI sources wide, fast.

AI tooling maps the market, including engineers who are not on job boards and people whose titles do not match what they actually build.

03

A human makes every call.

Every candidate who is advanced or rejected is reviewed by a person. Shortlists come with written reasoning you can audit, not a black-box score.

04

Assess for how people work.

Structured interviews and behavioural assessment test judgment, ownership and how someone ships under ambiguity, which is what separates strong AI engineers from strong interviewers.

AI Account Executive & Solutions Engineer recruiting FAQ

What should we look for in an account executive for an AI product?

Look for experience selling to technical buyers, comfort with proof-of-concept and security-heavy deals, and the honesty to set accurate expectations about what AI can do. Quota history matters less than whether their past market resembles yours.

Have you recruited sales roles for AI companies?

Yes. We have recently run enterprise account executive searches for an agentic AI company, alongside engineering searches.

Do you recruit solutions engineers and sales engineers?

Yes. We recruit solutions engineers, sales engineers and forward-deployed engineers who can demonstrate AI products on real customer problems.

Teams we've hired for

Focused.ioJumpBreedrlocalize.cityBlockworksReturnmatesRevinateState AffairsMakersplaceLongevity PartnersProjectManager.comVertaloSINAI Technologies

Hiring AI sales hires?

Tell us the role and where the pipeline is stuck. You'll hear back within one business day with a scope, a timeline, and a fee.

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