# Founding Account Executive

About Strix We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization - yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience. Strix is on a mission to solve security. Strix builds autonomous AI penetration testing agents that think like attackers: discovering, validating, and helping fix real vulnerabilities across live applications, codebases, and infrastructure - continuously, not once a year. We are looking for strong technical people who want to work at the intersection of AI, security, and infrastructure. About this role We're seeking a Founding Account Executive to own revenue at Strix - building pipeline, running technical sales cycles with security leaders, and shaping how autonomous pentesting is bought. You're excited about this role because you will… Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close with CISOs and security engineering leaders Work directly with the founders to define positioning, pricing, and the GTM playbook Turn a product customers love - real vulnerabilities found in days - into a repeatable sales motion Build the foundation (and eventually the team) for Strix's revenue organization Qualifications 4+ years of B2B SaaS clos

- **Id**: 3593082
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/strix-founding-account-executive>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-01T21:35:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T17:43:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2303
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Penetration Testing, Cybersecurity AI

## Company

- **Id**: 43680
- **Name**: Strix
- **Domain**: strix.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/strix>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 74000
- **Max usd**: 163000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 2720

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-01T22:32:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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