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Founding Account Executive, Israel

Telnyx Tel Aviv Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

We're building local Enterprise Sales Pods across global markets , one AE and one Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), working together to build a Telnyx enterprise business in Tel Aviv.

You will own a named-account list of 30–40 enterprise accounts in Israel, and your job is to turn those accounts into production Telnyx customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own a territory of 30–40 named enterprise accounts in Israel, narrowing to ~10 Tier 1 accounts worth $1M+ in annual potential
  • Build executive relationships , get in the room with CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering, and line-of-business owners
  • Run the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, design the commercial architecture with your FDE, negotiate, and close
  • Sell production outcomes, not individual products , lead with "let's deploy an AI agent that operates your SOC or NOC workflow"
  • Agree the commercial destination before any custom work begins , no free discovery or free development
  • Maintain disciplined POC management: every POC has a named executive sponsor, written success criteria, production pricing discussed, a decision date, and a signed commercial document
  • Expand the account , one workload becomes three, one $500K customer becomes a $2M customer
  • Build local references and case studies in your market
  • Provide accurate pipeline reporting and forecasting , no surprises

Requirements

  • 5+ years of enterprise sales experience selling into the Israeli market , CPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, telecom, AI/ML, or similarly technical infrastructure
  • Proven track record of consistently exceeding quota ($1M+ deals)
  • Experience selling to both executive and technical buyers , you can hold your own in the boardroom and in the architecture review
  • Hunter mentality , you build your own pipeline and thrive on outbound, in-person selling
  • Strong consultative selling skills: can build a clear, compelling ROI story for both technical and business buyers
  • Familiarity with sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, etc.)
  • Comfortable with modern sales tools (Salesforce, Outreach, Gong, etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Hebrew
  • Willingness to be in the field , visiting customers in person is a core part of this role
  • Based in Tel Aviv, or willing to relocate , this is a hybrid role with travel across Israel

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Fortune 500 or large enterprise new business sales experience in Israel
  • Complex sales cycles including RFPs, POCs, and competitive bake-offs
  • C-Level selling experience
  • Understanding of SIP trunking, phone number provisioning, carrier networks, or AI/ML platforms
  • Established relationships in the Tel Aviv enterprise ecosystem
  • Local language skills beyond English and Hebrew (Arabic, Russian)

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