Founding AE - Hack

Founding Account Executive, Hackathon About Brightidea and Hackathon Brightidea launched the first online innovation platform in 2000, and 26 years later, we're still closer to the beginning of this category than the end. More than 300 global brands run on our platform today, including Coca-Cola, Docusign and Johnson & Johnson, with over 100,000 people using Brightidea every month and customers self-reporting more than $15 billion in business impact generated through it. We believe innovation management is on the same trajectory finance, HR, and sales followed decades ago: as it becomes a larger share of what every business does, the systems to manage it become essential. We'd rather be early to that shift and help define what the category looks like than show up once it's obvious to everyone. Hackathon is our newest bet on that thesis: a standalone startup spun out of Brightidea to build and sell a dedicated hackathon and innovation-event product. It runs with its own product, brand, and go-to-market motion, but has the backing, customer relationships, and 26 years of category credibility of its parent behind it. Joining now means joining a startup team of one (soon to be more) with a running start, not a business built from a blank sheet of paper. The Role We're hiring a Founding Account Executive to sell Hackathon exclusively — a new kind of Account Executive who doesn't just sell the product as it exists today, but actively finds the gaps between what a prospect needs