Account Executive - Growth
- Pay
- $180,000 per year
- Location
- Chicago, IL · Hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- B2B sales
- complex deal management
- executive selling
Also useful
- SaaS
- forecasting
Your Mission
We're looking for a quota-carrying Account Executive - Growth to drive expansion across Engine's strategic customer base. You'll partner closely with Account Managers who own the ongoing customer relationship, while you focus on identifying whitespace, building the commercial case, engaging the right decision-makers, and closing.
What You'll Do
- Drive Expansion: Proactively identify and close growth opportunities across your assigned accounts.
- Strategic Discovery: Understand your customers' businesses deeply and uncover opportunities they may not have identified themselves.
- Executive Selling: Build VP+ relationships, multithread across accounts, and develop internal champions who can move opportunities forward.
- Own the Deal: Lead complex, multi-stakeholder opportunities from discovery through pricing, procurement, and close.
- Pipeline Rigor: Maintain an accurate pipeline, prioritize the highest-value opportunities, and ensure every deal has a clear next step.
- Pod Partnership: Work closely with Account Managers and cross-functional partners to turn customer signals into qualified opportunities while protecting the long-term health of the account.
What You'll Bring to Engine
We're looking for someone who's excited to own strategic customer relationships and drive measurable business outcomes.
- Experience: 4+ years in a quota-carrying B2B sales, expansion, or account growth role; SaaS or technology experience preferred.
- Proven Sales Performance: A track record of creating and closing meaningful revenue opportunities and consistently achieving quota.
- Complex Selling: Experience navigating strategic or enterprise customers, multiple stakeholders, and complex deal cycles.
- Executive Presence: Confidence building credibility and selling to VP+ and executive stakeholders.
- Hunter Mentality: You proactively find whitespace and create pipeline rather than waiting for opportunities to come to you.
- Sales Rigor: Strong discovery, account planning, multithreading, pipeline management, and forecasting skills.
- Travel Experience: Experience traveling regularly to meet with customers and comfort with ongoing customer-facing travel (approximately 8 times per quarter).
Additional information
Applications for this role will be accepted through January 26, 2027 or until the role is filled. We encourage you to apply early, as we may begin reviewing applications before the deadline.
Pay and benefits
In addition to a competitive base salary, our listed compensation range includes the estimated variable target. Your OTE (on-target earnings) are based on several factors including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition, all roles receive equity. Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process.
Total OTE Range (Base Salary + Variable) $180,000—$180,000 USD
Benefits
We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:
- Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with equity for all employees. Some roles are also eligible for bonuses or commissions.
- Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture
- Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we'll make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more
About Engine
Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel. For a decade, Engine has built the proprietary technology and supply behind modern business travel, serving over 40,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, along with leading travel and AI companies that build on Engine's infrastructure. One system powers business travel, group travel, human agents, and AI agents.
That work has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), and one of Built In's Best Places to Work (2020-2026).
We're looking for bold, ambitious people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Working here, you can expect exponential growth, an ambitious pace, full ownership, and high-caliber colleagues who push you to do the best work of your career. Every hire raises the bar.
Come outpace the ordinary and build the future of travel with us.
From Engine's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
How Rolev.ai helps with this application
Rolev.ai is a job search and application tool for US job seekers. For this Account Executive - Growth role at Engine, it shows how your resume fits, tailors your resume to the posting, and prepares the application for you to review.
See how you fit
Openings from employer career sites are ranked against your whole resume—and searchable inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via Rolev.ai MCP.
Tailor without inventing
Every change to your resume is checked against your original. New experience goes in only with your yes—zero fabricated claims.
Draft the full kit
Tailored and Full Match resumes, role-specific cover letters, and answers to employer screening questions are prepared in seconds.
1-Click Extension Autofill
The Chrome extension fills the employer's Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, or Ashby form in 1 click. You review it and press Submit.
Similar roles
All Account Executive jobs- Account ExecutiveSnap! Mobile, Inc. · Petaluma, CA · $50k – $175k/yr
- Account ExecutiveDropzone AI · Remote -
- Sales Account ExecutiveBeamup · United States
- Mid-Market Account ExecutiveValerie Health · San Francisco, CA
- Account Executive - 1099Lightcast · Moscow, ID
- Commercial Account ExecutiveStarburst · Boston, MA
Common questions
What is the salary for the Account Executive - Growth role at Engine?
The Account Executive - Growth posting at Engine states compensation of $180,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Engine's official career site.
Where is the Account Executive - Growth job at Engine located?
This Account Executive - Growth position at Engine is located in Chicago, IL (Hybrid). Always check Engine's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.
What qualifications are required for Account Executive - Growth at Engine?
For the Account Executive - Growth role, Engine highlights 4+ years of relevant experience; experience with B2B sales, complex deal management, executive selling. Rolev.ai can score your existing resume against these requirements and show any skill gaps before you apply.
How do I apply for the Account Executive - Growth position at Engine?
This listing links directly to Engine's Greenhouse application page. You can apply directly on Engine's site, or use Rolev.ai to check your resume fit, generate a zero-hallucination tailored resume and cover letter for this posting, and autofill the Greenhouse application form in 1 click with the Rolev.ai Chrome extension. You always review the form and press Submit yourself.