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Founding Sales Jobs
, SalesJobs.Now lists 2 open founding sales roles on 2 hiring companies: Apollo.io and Block.
Founding Channel Sales Coordinator (shows the role here)
Block · Partner sales · Tokyo, Japan· 3w agoDetails
$260,000–$280,000/yr
Open sales seats whose titles say founding or first sales hire: the moment a startup hands its first sales number to someone other than a founder. Each employer's careers system is read again every hour, so a seat it fills drops off this page at the next read.
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Account Executive
1 open- $260,000–$280,000/yr
Partner, Channel & Alliances
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Founding Channel Sales Coordinator (shows the role here)
Block · Partner sales · Tokyo, Japan· 3w agoDetails
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Founding seats trade certainty for upside. Ask how many months of runway the company has, who besides you owns revenue, and whether a quota exists yet or will be set after your first quarter.
Pay by kind of sales work
Each row's band comes from that kind's own open postings in this market, by the method behind every band on the board (from the 25th percentile of the midpoints of posted ranges (each counted as yearly pay, a rate per hour at 2,080 hours) to the 90th percentile of their top ends); a row needs three distinct posted ranges before it gets one. Every figure is yearly pay in US dollars; where a posting quotes a rate per hour, week or month, it is multiplied by 2,080, 52 or 12 to make a full-time year (40 hours over 52 weeks).
| Kind of work | Open seats | Typical posted pay | Top posting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account Executive | 1 | Not enough ranges | $280k/yr |
| Partner, Channel & Alliances | 1 | Not enough ranges | None posted |
Employers hiring for founding sales
| Employer | Open seats | Posted pay |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo.io | 1 | $260k–$280k/yr |
| Block | 1 | Not posted |
Companies are listed by what an application there is worth to you, and one that pays us a fee for hires sent from here gets a lift in that order; the fee never touches the base or OTE a company offers.
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Frequently asked questions
What do founding sales jobs pay?
Too few of these postings state a pay range for a fair band, so the figure turns on the segment, the territory and your seniority. Every listing that publishes its range shows it, as base salary or OTE.
What do startups want in a founding sales hire?
Postings usually ask for a closing record, comfort without process and often prior selling of a similar product or to the same buyer. Many add equity to base and OTE, so get the share, the strike price and the vesting schedule in writing.
What does a founding sales hire do?
Builds the motion while running it. A founding seller closes the first deals beyond the founders' network, writes the first playbook, picks the tools, carries what buyers say back to product and often hires the next reps. There is no enablement team and no proven pitch: finding one is the job.
Are these openings real?
Each one is read from the employer's own careers system (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and the like), and Apply takes you to that company's application. Apollo.io and Block are among the employers on this page. A real employer never charges you for training, a starter kit or a background check; the scam checker lists the other warning signs of a fake offer.
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