SMB Account Executive

About us

Common Room is the customer intelligence platform that captures every buying signal, giving companies superpowers with AI enrichment and automation to reach the right person with the right context at the right time. 

Despite an explosion of buyer signals, companies are left struggling with siloed point solution vendors, bloated tech stacks, and unactionable "intent" data. Common Room brings together all the buying signals you care about in one place so you can track the entire customer journey, match signals to real people and accounts, take action and automate. 

We’ve raised over $50 million from top-tier investors including Greylock, Index, and Madrona to build the world's first customer intelligence platform for modern B2B companies. And we’re backed by 25+ operators from the fastest-growing companies in the world such as Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Slack, Notion, Loom, and more.

You + Common Room? You’d be joining a team that revels in asking hard questions, collaborating gladly, and making decisions quickly—a team that values simplicity, passion, trust, each other, and our customers above all.

So hello! Please, knock on our door. We'd love to meet you.

Why we need you:

We’re looking to take our company to the next level. You’re passionate about sales and are excited to use Common Room to sell Common Room. You’ve likely been a FOUNDING AE before or worked in an early stage startup with a similar mentality. You thrive in ambiguity. The OUTBOUND challenge is the adrenaline you chase. You’re constantly honing your craft and looking to change the future of sales.
TL;DR THE OUTBOUND HUSTLE in an ambiguous, early stage environment is where you excel.

How You’ll Contribute

• Drive outbound and inbound pipeline by identifying, qualifying, and developing high-potential leads into opportunities.

• Build strong relationships with users and buyers across SMB accounts, understanding their needs and helping guide them through the buying process.

• Own the full sales cycle—from discovery to close—including negotiation and coordination with internal teams.

• Partner with customer engineers and success managers to support smooth handoffs and strong early customer experiences.

• Capture insights from sales conversations to help inform our product and marketing strategy.

• Be a key contributor to shaping how we sell and support SMB customers as we grow.
  

You’ll Be a Great Fit If You Have

• 1–3 years of SaaS sales experience, ideally in a closing role.

• A consistent track record of hitting or exceeding quota.

• Experience working in fast-paced environments—startups or growth-stage companies preferred.

• A customer-first mindset and a consultative approach to selling.

• Strong communication, organization, and follow-up skills.

• Curiosity and a willingness to learn new products, tools, and processes.

• Bonus points if you’ve sold to sales, marketing, or community teams—or are familiar with PLG or PLS motions.

In your first week, expect to:

• Dive deep into core personas and use cases for Common Room

• Understand how Common Room differentiates from other GTM tools

• Meet your team as well as cross-functional partners and company leadership

In your first month, expect to:

• Become proficient at leading discovery, demos, POCs, and deal closing / negotiation

• Know the Common Room script backward and forward and put your own spin on it

• Wrap your arms around your existing book of business (e.g., use cases, buyer maps, etc.)

• Close your first deal (or deals!) with Commercial sales cycles as short as two weeks

In your first three months, expect to:

• Be fully ramped and have sufficient pipeline coverage to achieve next quarter’s target

• Become an expert on GTM tools and achieve trusted advisor status with your customers

• Contribute best practices to the team in order to increase win rates, velocity, and deal size

• Mentor new AEs to shorten their ramp and help to shape the hiring profile as we build the team

Our values:

• Be Customer-centric - We work backwards from the needs of our customers. The crisp articulation of customer value guides our decisions.

• Strive for Simplicity - We choose simplicity over complexity whenever possible. We seek to identify and understand the essential quality of what we are building.

• Make it Happen - We are quick to take the first step, and prioritize decisiveness over fear of making a mistake. We don’t confuse motion for movement and we measure ourselves on impact over actions.

• We’re In this Together - We measure personal success by the success of our customers and teammates. Relationships matter, and the strongest ones are built on the foundations of trust, enablement, and transparency.

Our benefits:

Our investment in caring for our employees and their families is a key part of our values and culture at Common Room:

• Competitive base compensation with meaningful equity ownership

• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, HSA and FSA

• We pay 100% of your employee premium and 50% of your premium for any dependents

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• Paid Company Holidays

• Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs

• Monthly Remote Stipend

• 401(k) self contribution

• Paid Family Leave

• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle

Common Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.