Junior Account Executive, Pressable

Automattic

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Job Description

Required Skills

Key Responsibilities

• Inbound Lead Qualification: Manage inbound leads by responding to inquiries, identifying potential opportunities, and qualifying prospects based on their needs.
• Prospect Engagement: Create interest and excitement around Pressable’s WordPress hosting solutions through initial discovery calls, emails, and chats.
• Meeting Scheduling: Set up and schedule meetings for senior sales team members to further engage qualified leads.
• Product Education: Educate prospects about Pressable’s features and benefits, ensuring they understand the value of our solutions.
• CRM Management: Track interactions with prospects, manage lead data, and update records in our CRM to ensure accurate information and follow-ups.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the senior sales team to ensure smooth handoffs for qualified leads and help drive deals forward.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up to date with Pressable’s product offerings, industry trends, and evolving best practices for AI-enabled sales execution and customer engagement.
• AI-Assisted Sales Execution: Use AI tools to support prospect research, call preparation, follow-up drafting, and deal summarization, ensuring high-quality and timely customer engagement.
• Signal & Insight Capture: Leverage call transcripts, summaries, and AI-generated insights to identify customer needs, objections, and next steps, and reflect those clearly in the CRM.
• Feedback Loop Participation: Contribute structured feedback surfaced through AI tools (e.g., call analysis, objection trends) to improve sales playbooks, enablement, and product feedback loops.
• Own monthly qualified meeting and pipeline generation targets, consistently hitting or exceeding defined conversion and activity benchmarks.
• Proactively identify and engage target accounts aligned with Pressable’s ICP through outbound email, LinkedIn, and phone outreach, leveraging AI for research and personalization at scale.

Qualifications

• Excellent Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with prospects and qualify leads.
• Customer-Focused: A passion for understanding customer needs and offering solutions to help solve their challenges.
• Self-Motivated: Ability to work independently and manage multiple conversations and tasks at once, ensuring timely follow-ups and outreach.
• Curiosity & Learning Mindset: A desire to learn about Pressable’s product, the managed WordPress hosting industry, and sales techniques.
• CRM Experience: Familiarity with CRM tools (like Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.) and the ability to manage leads efficiently.
• Comfort Using AI Tools: Experience using AI tools to support research, writing, summarization, or workflow efficiency in a professional setting.
• Strong Judgment with Automation: Ability to use AI outputs critically, knowing when to rely on them and when human judgment is required.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Preferred Qualifications: 2-5 years of experience in a BDR/JDR or similar role.
• Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with WordPress and managed hosting services.
• Preferred Qualifications: Proven track record of generating leads and setting up successful sales conversations.

Benefits & Perks

• Health Benefits for US-based staff (99% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
• Matching 401(k) for US-based staff
• Life and Disability Insurance for US-based staff (100% Paid Life, & LTD)
• Work from home with home office setup and coworking allowances
• Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year)
• Hardware and software, books or conferences that promote continued learning
• Opportunity to work with AI-enhanced sales processes
• Part of the Automattic family, known for its commitment to making the web a better place

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Posted Date

March 23, 2026

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