Account Executive (AI)

Location: New York City hybrid — 3 days in-office and 2 days remote

On-Target Earnings: $250K–$320K, plus equity, commission, and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-native primary intelligence platform that automates expert research workflows for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers.

What you will do

• Prospect into and close private equity and growth equity firms across the full sales cycle.
• Build pipeline through personal networks, outbound prospecting, AI tools, industry events, and creative approaches.
• Run demonstrations tailored to private equity workflows and manage trials and proof-of-concepts through conversion.
• Navigate buying processes involving GPs, managing directors, research leaders, CIOs, investment committees, compliance, and procurement.
• Feed market insights back to engineering and help shape the product.
• Develop messaging, case studies, competitive positioning, and the sales process for the private equity vertical.

Requirements

• 3–8 years of quota-carrying closing experience selling software, data, or research products to private equity firms.
• A network within the private equity ecosystem and the ability to reach deal team leads, research heads, GPs, and managing directors.
• Understanding of private markets, including industry evaluation, management assessment, scenario modeling, and investment conviction.
• Experience selling to skeptical, analytically rigorous buyers through consultative sales processes.
• Experience in an early-stage or high-growth company where the sales process had to be built.
• Availability to work in the New York City hybrid arrangement with 3 days in-office.

Nice to have

• Direct experience selling research tools, data products, or workflow software to private equity.
• Familiarity with expert networks and their use in industry diligence and management references.
• Experience as part of an early sales team building a go-to-market function.
• Prior finance experience before moving into sales.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary with uncapped commissions and accelerators above quota.
• Early-stage equity stake.
• Health coverage, flexible paid time off, and paid holidays.
• Founding go-to-market role with direct influence on product and sales strategy.