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Exa
About Exa
Exa runs its own web crawl, embedding models and vector search and sells the results through an API that AI agents and applications call for real-time web data and deep research. Its go-to-market team sells to enterprises, Fortune 500 companies and AI labs, with account executives owning deals from prospecting to close and a large group of forward deployed engineers and solutions architects doing the technical work. Hiring centers on San Francisco and a New York office it is building from scratch, with London covering EMEA and engineers in Singapore and India.
Typical pay, live
, SalesJobs.Now shows 15 open Exa sales roles; the postings mostly run from $201k to $400k a year, with $213k in the middle.
Exa sales openings
Board read 31 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTCHead of Solutions Architecture (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · San Francisco, California· todayDetails
$300,000–$415,000/yr OTEFDE Lead, NYC (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · New York City· 1d agoDetails
$250,000–$315,000/yr OTESolutions Architect, SF (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · San Francisco, California· 2d agoDetails
$165,000–$325,000/yr OTE- $150,000–$250,000/yr
Manager, Sales Development - NYC (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · New York City· 1mo agoDetails
$180,000–$240,000/yr- $150,000–$225,000/yr
Forward Deployed Engineer, NYC (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · New York City· 2mo agoDetails
$130,000–$275,000/yr- $100,000–$130,000/yr
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Exa as an employer
A search API company that says 500,000 developers build on it. Posted pay: $201k–$400k/yr, midpoint $213k/yr.
Hiring now, with pay read from the salaries its own postings state15 sales openings at Exa, as its own board showed them 31 Oct 2026.
Exa pays its sellers a salary plus variable pay and attaches equity to nearly every go-to-market role.
San Francisco and New York (in office), London, Singapore and India.
Pay at Exa
From today's postings, 31 Oct 2026Midpoint $213k/yr across 11 openings with posted pay. Posted figures range from $100k/yr to $415k/yr.
Based on 11 distinct posted pay ranges, at this company, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 4 of the 15 openings here list no pay.
Best-paid Exa openings on the board
All 15 of its openings, sorted by payHead of Solutions Architecture (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · San Francisco, California· todayDetails
$300,000–$415,000/yr OTE- $210,000–$400,000/yr OTE
Solutions Architect, SF (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · San Francisco, California· 2d agoDetails
$165,000–$325,000/yr OTEFDE Lead, NYC (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · New York City· 1d agoDetails
$250,000–$315,000/yr OTEData Partnerships (shows the role here)
Partner sales · San Francisco, California· 11mo agoDetails
$180,000–$300,000/yr OTE
Typical means 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, the yardstick behind every list on this site. How we source and grade each salary figure.
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Is Exa a good company to sell for?
A search API company that says 500,000 developers build on it.
Is Exa still an active employer?
Yes. A search API company that says 500,000 developers build on it. How its pay is structured: Exa pays its sellers a salary plus variable pay and attaches equity to nearly every go-to-market role.
What does a sales job at Exa pay?
On Exa's board today, the 11 openings that post pay put the typical band at $201k–$400k/yr and the midpoint at $213k/yr. Posted figures range from $100k/yr up to $415k/yr.
Is selling for Exa worth it?
Posted pay at Exa: $201k–$400k/yr, midpoint $213k/yr. Selling AI and data products suits reps who can hold a technical buyer's attention through a proof of concept.
How is Exa's sales comp put together?
Exa pays its sellers a salary plus variable pay and attaches equity to nearly every go-to-market role.
Where are Exa's sales roles based?
San Francisco and New York (in office), London, Singapore and India.
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