Enterprise Account Executive, Commercial & Defense
Path Robotics· Sales
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About the role
Enterprise Account Executive role at Path Robotics focused on managing an enterprise territory, driving end-to-end sales from prospecting to signed order, including government capture for defense opportunities, with deals typically worth millions across commercial and defense businesses.
Responsibilities
- Manage a specific enterprise territory by creating and executing account plans for large manufacturers, mapping opportunities across plants, business units, and product lines.
- Handle the entire sales process from finding prospects, qualifying leads, collaborating with Solutions Engineering to define needs, building the business case, negotiating, and closing deals to a funded deployment.
- Build the business case by translating throughput, labor, scrap, rework, and cycle time into an ROI model.
- Engage with a large buying committee from shop floor to C-suite, identifying key decision makers and navigating complex procurement processes typical of Fortune 500 companies.
- Negotiate commercial terms with GTM Ops on pricing, deployment milestones, acceptance criteria, performance metrics, and multi-cell rollouts; handle most terms without escalation.
- Run capture activities for government opportunities, shaping requirements, building teaming/prime relationships, and aligning deals to funded programs.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of enterprise B2B sales with a consistent quota-attainment in complex, long-cycle deals.
- Proven seven-figure deal experience (personally creating, managing, and closing $1M+ enterprise opportunities) with multi-stakeholder cycles.
- Background in capital equipment or automation (robotics, machine tools, industrial automation, capital projects, or Robotics-as-a-Service) with implementation and payback considerations.
- Strategic thinking to select accounts, plan long-term relationships, and prune non-scalable deals.
- Experience selling Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) and navigating objections from enterprise customers with capital equipment histories.
- Comfort discussing cycle time, fixturing, part tolerance, throughput; know when to involve Sales Engineering.
- Enterprise multi-threading: ability to align across Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, IT/Security, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and executives.
- Business-case ownership: translate operational challenges into financial and strategic ROI tied to labor, throughput, capacity, quality, and productivity improvements.
- Executive presence and adaptability to plant floor and boardroom settings.
- Willingness to travel roughly half the time.
- Comfort working in a fast-growing environment with evolving processes.
Skills
Required:Enterprise B2B salesSeven-Figure Deal ExperienceCapital equipment / automation knowledgeStrategic account planningRaaS sellingTechnical discussion comfortExecutive presence
Benefits
- Daily free lunch
- Flexible PTO
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 6 weeks fully paid parental leave (plus 6–8 weeks for birthing parents, totaling 12–14 weeks)
- 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
- Generous employee referral bonuses
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Path Robotics
Path Robotics | Physical AI for Manufacturing
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