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PEO Account Executive, SMB

Rippling
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/31/2026
About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About The Role

The PEO Account Executive role at Rippling provides an extremely unique opportunity -- we’re looking for talented and ambitious Account Executives who can both manage a high velocity sales cycle while also navigating a very strategic sales process.

One fundamental belief at Rippling is that PEO Account Executive should spend 100% of their time between engaging with interested prospects/customers, qualifying PEO/HR Services opportunities, managing sales cycles to help potential customers evaluate our PEO/HR Services services, closing revenue from marketing generated demos, and working with our Account Executives to ensure a seamless transition to our platform for new customers. No prospecting, we leave that to our world class SDR and Marketing teams.

What You Will Do

  • Manage PEO/HR Services pipeline in Salesforce to accurately forecast revenue and move deal along in PEO quoting process
  • Run sales calls with short deck presentation and deep PEO/HR Services discussions
  • Close business and achieve quota attainment consistently
  • Become a product expert on PEO/HR Services service offering and understand our competitor landscape
  • Work closely with CSM/Account Executive teams to ensure a successful PEO/HR Services evaluation and close

What You Will Need

  • BA/BS Degree
  • 2 years successful PEO sales experience
  • Experience carrying a $350k annual quota
  • Experience of success (top 10% of sales org)
  • Experience selling PEO/HR Services software
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment
  • Active health insurance license or ability to complete licensure process quickly (in first few weeks of hire)

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive On-Target Earnings (base salary sales commission) benefits equity. The On-Target Earnings* for US-based employees will be 50/50 commission split for base/variable pay, and aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

$165,000 - $170,000 (50/50)

  • Commission is not guaranteed

Salary : $350,000

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