Enterprise Account Executive (Chicago)
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at LangChain. Remote, United States · full-time · $300,000–$350,000 OTE.
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What you'll do
- Move enterprise opportunities from first lead to signed deal, with consistent follow-up at each stage
- Understand prospects’ needs and explain how the products address them, including through proof-of-concept work
- Coordinate with sales engineers and product specialists to show customers measurable product value
- Set pricing and deal terms, then work with legal on contract changes and support teams after the sale
- Feed customer perspectives to product and engineering, and contribute to refining the sales playbook
What you bring
- At least five years selling sophisticated software to enterprise customers
- You communicate clearly, tell a compelling story and earn trust with technical decision-makers
Who this fits
This role suits an empathetic, relationship-oriented seller who can navigate complex technical deals and keep them moving through obstacles. You’ll help shape the sales approach in a fast-changing startup environment and work with engineering, product, customer success and deployment teams. Hiring is focused on the North Central region. The stated annual OTE is $300,000 to $350,000.
From the employer
About Us
At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.
With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.
Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Account Executive to join our growing GTM team and drive the next wave of growth at LangChain. In this role, you’ll own the full sales cycle helping technical teams at cutting-edge enterprise companies discover, evaluate, and adopt LangChain’s products.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where you’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer success teams to shape how GenAI is adopted across different domains. If you're a relationship-driven seller who thrives in fast-paced, unstructured environments and wants to be part of building the go-to-market motion from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.
We are looking for candidates across the North Central region.
What You’ll Do
Own and manage the full sales cycle, from lead stage to close with a strong bias for follow-up and follow-through
Act as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers, learning their needs and demonstrating how our products can solve real problems
Drive proof-of-concept efforts, working with sales engineers and product experts to demonstrate tangible value
Stay on top of product updates and industry trends to educate customers and shape the conversation around GenAI adoption
Build long-term customer relationships and support post-sale success in partnership with our deployment and support teams
Negotiate pricing and deal terms and work with legal to redline contracts
Bring customer insights back to product and engineering teams to inform the future roadmap and improve the user experience
Help define and iterate on our sales playbook - your input will help shape our go to market strategies
How to be successful in this role
5+ years of experience selling complex software to enterprise customers
A relationship builder that garners trust quickly and approaches sales with empathy and curiosity
Excellent communication and storytelling skills
Technical acumen with the ability to establish credibility with technical decision makers.
You thrive in fast-paced start-up environments and are energized by impact - you want to help evolve the playbook, not just follow one
Driven and solutions-oriented; you know how to navigate roadblocks and keep deals moving forward
Passionate about generative AI and excited to help customers navigate a rapidly evolving industry
Compensation
Annual OTE range: $300,000 - 350,000 USD
Compensation Philosophy:
We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.
We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.
Benefits
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.
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