About Dust

Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.

We call them AI operators: the employees inside companies who build, deploy, and run AI agents for their teams, without waiting for someone to hand them a tool. Dust is the platform they choose to rewire how their company works.

With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast.

We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026.

Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50.

This Role

As an Account Executive at Dust, you'll drive our mission to transform how work gets done through AI. You'll build our customer base among digital-native and larger enterprises, representing our innovative AI operating system that empowers teams to create the agents they need.

Joining Dust also means pioneering a new form of Business Development. As a GenAI-native company, Dust aims to illustrate how GenAI can help redefine the experience customers can expect from software and how sales teams can be reimagined with GenAI at the core.

You’ll contribute to building a new category from the ground up in a fast-paced environment that encourages a doer attitude and ownership over outcomes as we work to grow revenue 5x by the end of 2026.

Responsibilities

1. Business Development & Market Expansion

• Evangelize Dust’s vision and help redefine how work gets done

• Drive new business acquisition across digital-native companies and larger enterprises

• Identify expansion opportunities and build strategic relationships in priority markets

2. Sales Strategy & Pipeline Management

• Manage a pipeline of multi-stakeholder opportunities from prospecting to close, navigating 2–6 month sales cycles

• Generate high-quality outbound pipeline through strategic prospecting

• Qualify and manage new opportunities generated by Marketing and other channels

3. Customer Experience & Relationship Management

• Provide an exceptional buying experience for our customers that showcases how Dust can transform their work

• Ensure a smooth transition to the Customer Success team

4. Analytics, Reporting & Strategic Insights

• Develop a deep understanding of our target markets, ideal customer profile(s), and value proposition, as well as competitive positioning

• Use CRM and other sales tools to manage your pipeline effectively

• Report to leadership in weekly forecast meetings and 1:1s

• Provide feedback from the market to Product, Marketing, and Dust leadership to inform our product roadmap, target profiles, and go-to-market strategies

Requirements

• Must be a US resident and have work authorization.

• You’ve met or exceeded your sales targets for 3+ years and are experienced in closing 6-figure deals.

• 3+ years of experience selling complex products.

• Proven ability to sell in a lean company with few to no sales support & resources (e.g., no lead gen, no SDR, no sales playbook)

• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles in the 2-6 month range

• Strong prospecting skills and a willingness to use them.

• Proven ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders

• Customer-centric approach, enjoying the process of learning about prospects' businesses and helping them solve challenges

• Growth mindset, eager to learn new skills and methodologies and bring best practices into our business

• Collaborative work style, able to partner effectively with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams

• Curiosity, adaptability, and a flair for elegant solutions to first-of-its-kind problems

• Willingness to operate with flexibility as Dust evolves, no job is too big or too small

You should still consider applying, even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements above, as long as you have the desire and determination to apply your experience in the service of our users.

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive compensation: $160K - $300K OTE

• Significant equity package at a Sequoia-backed startup

• Health benefits for you and your dependents

• New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc.

• Opportunity to travel to the EU multiple times a year

• Regular team events and offsites

Location

We're prioritizing building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris and San Francisco, because we value the magic that happens when talented people work closely together.

Why Dust

The models are powerful enough. What's missing is the product layer where AI meets how companies actually work. That's what we're building: the infrastructure that lets any team turn scattered knowledge and tools into coordinated execution with agents they build, own, and run themselves.

We use Dust ourselves every day. We get to shape how humans and agents collaborate while solving our own problems with the product we ship. That loop is rare, and it's why we move fast.

If you're excited about defining a new category and want to join a determined team of optimists who focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously, we'd love to talk.

Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist.

Learn how we think and work.

• Our product constitution, a story about our mission

• Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024

• LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024