What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Account Executive, Retail position at Cursor?
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About The Role
You’ll be a Strategic AE selling Cursor into consumer-facing enterprises where engineering velocity impacts revenue and customer experience (ecommerce, marketplaces, hospitality platforms, media/streaming, entertainment brands). You’ll win by proving real-world impact and scaling adoption across large product engineering orgs.
What You’ll Do
What You’ll Do
About The Role
You’ll be a Strategic AE selling Cursor into consumer-facing enterprises where engineering velocity impacts revenue and customer experience (ecommerce, marketplaces, hospitality platforms, media/streaming, entertainment brands). You’ll win by proving real-world impact and scaling adoption across large product engineering orgs.
What You’ll Do
- Own a vertical portfolio and net-new strategy across retail/hospitality/entertainment
- Build relationships across Product Engineering, DevEx, Security, and Procurement
- Tie Cursor to outcomes like faster launches, fewer defects, and reduced operational toil
- Run hands-on POVs with real repos and production workflows
- Navigate enterprise security/compliance reviews and commercial negotiation
- Drive adoption plans (enablement, champions, rollout sequencing) and expansions
- Share customer learnings to sharpen Cursor’s positioning and rollout playbooks
- 7 years enterprise closing experience; consumer/internet background is a plus
- You’re comfortable selling to technical buyers and quantifying business impact
- Strong outbound account planning chops; you create pipeline consistently
- You're a true hunter - you proactively build pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, creative sourcing, and relentless follow-up, rather than relying on inbound demand
- High ownership IC who moves fast and communicates crisply
What You’ll Do
- Own a vertical portfolio and net-new strategy across retail/hospitality/entertainment
- Build relationships across Product Engineering, DevEx, Security, and Procurement
- Tie Cursor to outcomes like faster launches, fewer defects, and reduced operational toil
- Run hands-on POVs with real repos and production workflows
- Navigate enterprise security/compliance reviews and commercial negotiation
- Drive adoption plans (enablement, champions, rollout sequencing) and expansions
- Share customer learnings to sharpen Cursor’s positioning and rollout playbooks
- 7 years enterprise closing experience; consumer/internet background is a plus
- You’re comfortable selling to technical buyers and quantifying business impact
- Strong outbound account planning chops; you create pipeline consistently
- You're a true hunter - you proactively build pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, creative sourcing, and relentless follow-up, rather than relying on inbound demand
- High ownership IC who moves fast and communicates crisply