Senior Account Executive

Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, with a focus on the country’s 500,000 commercial fleets, 40 million commercial vehicles, and many million commercial drivers. The incumbent technologies that cater to these customers are decades old, and drivers and fleets increasingly demand modern digital experiences and affordable and transparent financial services products. Coast's mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale, beginning with the Coast Fleet and Fuel Card built on a cutting-edge spend management platform. 

As one of the very first sales hires at an early-stage startup, you will roll up your sleeves to do the critical work of selling Coast’s product. Coast is built to help businesses with fleets save time and money, and you will identify, develop, and close relationships with prospective clients. At the same time, you’ll bring the voice of the customer to the forefront of our product development, help inform our sales strategy, and build the future of our sales organization.  Your contributions will directly drive revenue for Coast, while enabling the long term success of our future sales colleagues.

Responsibilities:

• Own the entire customer sales cycle from prospect to close for Small and Medium businesses that operate fleets of 5+ vehicles 
• Drive revenue for Coast through consultative, customer-first, selling 
• Work to define structure, culture and playbook of the sales organization 
• Provide significant mentorship to sales colleagues as a peer leader
• Develop a sales pipeline through strategic outbound prospecting and inbound leads
• Articulate the Coast value proposition to qualified decision makers, finance teams, and C-level executives
• Collaborate with marketing to create a holistic customer engagement strategy 
• Share customer feedback with Coast colleagues in product, finance, and risk to improve the user experience
• Achieve and exceed sales targets and projected revenue goals
• Provide input into the sales organization strategy to help us scale exponentially
• Proactively develop recommendations to improve and optimize our sales engine 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from a four year university
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in a sales or customer-facing role, with SMB experience and/or payments experience preferred
• Background in B2B sales operations strongly preferred (e.g. territory development, incentive plan structure, sales enablement, etc.)
• Outstanding communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to leverage sales tools to maintain organized pipeline and generate significant insights on sales and go-to-market approaches 
• Ability to identify and engage decision makers within a prospective client organization 
• Capable of demonstrating value and handling objections for a financial technology product 
• Comfort performing fast-paced, transactional, outbound and inbound sales
• Proven track record at meeting and exceeding sales quotas
• Strong sales toolkit: you can prospect, qualify, demonstrate, negotiate, and close deals
• Positive attitude with a focus on having a growth mindset

Critically, you must be practical and business-minded, smart and creative, and excited about the rewards and volatility of an early-stage venture-backed startup.

Coast is founded and led by Daniel Simon, who previously cofounded Bread (breadpayments.com), a leading payments and credit technology firm backed by some of the world’s top VCs which was acquired for $500MM+ in 2020.

Coast recently raised $27.5M in a Series A financing co-led by Accel and Insight Partners. We're also backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds – including Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Colle – and premier angel investors – including Max Levchin (Affirm), Josh Abramowitz (Bread), Jason Gardner (Marqeta), William Hockey (Plaid), Ryan Petersen (Flexport), and many others.

Coast is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are building a diverse and inclusive environment, so we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.