Posted 43 months ago
Enterprise Account Executive
@ Rootly
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Rootly is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive to build a book of business across North America, selling incident management and on-call software on full sales cycles of US$50K to US$150K+ ARR. The role is a full-time, newly created position at a venture-backed startup. Competitive compensation with early equity, comprehensive benefits and 3 weeks of vacation are offered.
Responsibilities:
- Source and close full sales cycles of US$50K to US$150K+ ARR
- Build a book of business across North America
- Present product narratives and ROI analyses to executives
- Lead product workshops with company leaders
- Help develop and refine the sales process
Requirements summary:
- 7+ years enterprise software sales to SMB and enterprise accounts
- Owned enterprise software quotas of US$1M+
- Proven complex negotiation skills
- Ability to communicate technical B2B SaaS value to technical stakeholders
- Strong remote and in-person communication
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- Employer posting date
- 2023-04-17
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-11
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-27
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Sales |
| Experience | 7+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Stock or equity, Wellness, Home office allowance |
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Rootly
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AI-powered on-call and incident response. Trusted by leading companies like NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Figma, and more.
Full company description
AI-native on-call and incident response. Modern Slack and MS Teams native incident management—from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma. See why they rate us 5 stars on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/rootly-manage-incidents-on-slack/reviews
- LinkedIn followers
- 12,500
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 75
- Reported office locations
- Toronto, Ontario M5V1R9, CA
- Business categories
- Developer Platform
- Information Technology
- Productivity Tools
- Software
- SaaS
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Other recorded names
- Rootly
- Specialties
- Incident Response
- Incident Management
- SRE
- DevOps
- SaaS
- Outage Management
- Incident Resolution
- and Site Reliability Engineering
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 15,200,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
AI-native on-call and incident response. Modern Slack and MS Teams native incident management—from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma. See why they rate us 5 stars on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/rootly-manage-incidents-on-slack/reviews
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | Incident ResponseIncident ManagementSREDevOpsSaaSOutage ManagementIncident Resolutionand Site Reliability Engineering |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 14 |
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About Rootly
At Rootly, we are on a mission to be the go-to way companies respond when things go wrong, helping every organization be more reliable. We do this by building an industry-leading incident management platform that allows companies around the world to consistently and quickly resolve incidents. We are not simply transforming an industry, we are carving out a new multi-billion-dollar category ourselves and need incredible talent to achieve this ambitious goal together.
Customers love Rootly. Some of the fastest-growing companies around the world such as NVIDIA, DoorDash, Uber, Canva, Tripadvisor, Squarespace and more rely on Rootly to power their critical incident management process. They obsess over our delightful enterprise-ready platform and unique partnership model. See why our customers have reviewed us 5 stars on G2.
Investors love Rootly. We are backed by some of the most respected funds in the world from Y Combinator to operators like the CTO of Dropbox and GitHub. We'd be happy to disclose our entire funding and profitability picture live during the interview. As a culture we relentlessly put transparency first. We conduct monthly financial reviews as a team so everyone has a pulse on the health of the business and publish what we are building in our weekly changelog.
About the Role
This is a ground-floor opportunity to be one of the first Enterprise Account Executives at Rootly and shape our trajectory. You will experience what being at a scrappy startup is like. You will help lay the foundation for the entire sales process and grow revenue by:
- Building a book of business across North America that results in 100% quota attainment in your first year with Rootly.
- Sourcing and closing full sales cycles for US$50K to US$150K+ ARR opportunities.
- Winning highly competitive deals by positioning Rootly as the incident management and on-call platform of choice for enterprise buyer segments.
- Designing and presenting product narratives and insights to executives within named accounts.
- Working with company leaders from multiple functions to lead product workshops and prepare and present ROI analyses.
- Leading and contributing to team projects to develop and refine our sales process.
What You'll Need
We care more about execution, ownership, and impact than fancy degrees or FAANG experience. If the following resonates with you, we want to hear from you:
- Enterprise sales experience: you have 7+ years selling enterprise software to SMB and enterprise accounts.
- Quota ownership: you have owned enterprise software quotas of US$1M+.
- Product and domain expertise: you love becoming an expert, sell consultatively, and teach prospects something at every touchpoint.
- Negotiation skills: you have a proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial and pricing agreements.
- Exceptional communication: you communicate incredibly well, both remotely and in person.
- Executive presence: you enjoy getting in the room with economic buyers and working with complex organizations to find and close great-fit deals.
- Autonomy: you do your best work in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
- Technical fluency: you are comfortable communicating the value of technical B2B SaaS solutions to technical stakeholders.
Why Rootly?
We're not just another startup. We're building something category-defining and want teammates who crave ownership, love solving hard problems, and thrive in a high-bar, high-impact environment.
Here's what you can expect when you join Rootly:
- Competitive compensation and early equity in a fast-growing, venture-backed company.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 3 weeks of vacation, plus unlimited sick and mental health days, and a company-wide end-of-year shutdown to recharge.
- $500 stipend for home office setup.
- Unlimited token usage and access to AI tools.
- A fast-moving, high-impact environment where your leadership and ideas directly shape the future of the company.
This is a newly created vacancy.
As we build out the team, we may use AI to support parts of our interview process, like reviewing assessments, but it's a tool that helps our people, not a substitute for their judgement.
If this sounds like the kind of challenge and opportunity you're looking for, apply now and let's build something great together.
Accommodations are available on request at any stage of our recruitment process. Contact [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your needs confidentially.
Rootly is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code or applicable law.
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