CursorStrategic Account Executive, Life Sciences
Cursor is hiring a Strategic Account Executive, Life Sciences for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cursor.
Level's read on this job
- Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this sales role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting lists this role as remote.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Grok, Sso and Scim.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 121 other open roles at Cursor.
AI in this role
Own strategic life sciences accounts and drive enterprise sales for AI products and supercomputing solutions.
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
About the role
You’ll be a Strategic AE owning a focused set of Life Sciences accounts. You’ll run end-to-end deals from first technical champion through security, vendor risk, procurement, and rollout, partnering closely with Solutions Engineering and Product to prove value in real workflows.
What you’ll do
Own a small portfolio of strategic LS accounts and a net-new target list
Build multi-threaded relationships across Eng/Platform, Security, Risk, and Procurement
Run consultative discovery and build ROI cases tied to developer productivity + risk reduction
Drive evaluations/POVs (SSO/SCIM, auditability, data handling, policy controls)
Navigate vendor risk, legal, and enterprise procurement to close and deploy
Land and expand: initial team → org standardization → multi-business-unit rollout
Feed customer signal back to Product/GTM and help refine repeatable playbooks
You may be a fit if
You have 10+ years closing enterprise software deals with consistent quota attainment
You have experience selling into Life Sciences (or deeply regulated enterprise environments)
You are comfortable with technical buyers and security stakeholders; you can earn engineering trust
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
You have strong outbound + pipeline discipline; accurate forecasting and crisp written communication
You thrive as an IC in a flat org: high ownership, low ego, fast learning loop
How we rate this
Strategic Account Executive, Life Sciences at Cursor rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Pay
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- $140k
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where enterprise sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where b2b sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where life sciences was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where outbound prospecting was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Grok in your day-to-day work.
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Enterprise Sales, B2b Sales, Life Sciences, Outbound Prospecting, and Grok. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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