Overview Role: Account Executive Location: New York, NY (5 days/week in-office) Base Salary: $110,000-$180,000 Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers Experience: 3+ Years About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time market data with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more. The Role We're looking for a driven Account Executive to own the full sales cycle at Pillar, from first outreach to close. This is a high-impact, quota-carrying role at the center of Pillar's commercial engine. You'll work directly with commodity-exposed businesses to help them understand their price risk and show them exactly how Pillar solves it. The right person is commercially driven, intellectually curious about how physical businesses manage risk, and energized by the challenge of converting cold prospects into long-term clients. You'll be an early sales hire with direct exposure to the executive team and meaningful influence over how Pillar's GTM motion scales. What You'll Do Hunting: This is a full-cycle AE role. You will be responsible for prospecting into accounts, mapping out new logos, and finding creative ways to close business. You're not waiting for leads to come to you. Consultative Selling: Run discovery calls and demos that speak credibly to CFOs, heads of procurement, and treasury teams. Deeply understand each prospect's commodity exposure profile and build tailored proposals and ROI cases that show exactly how Pilla
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