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      <title>Strategic Account Executive, Federal Sales</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>As a Strategic Account Executive, Federal Sales at Cursor, you&#39;ll drive revenue growth across a named territory of large federal accounts on our Public Sector team. You&#39;ll work closely with engineering organizations - from CTOs to individual development teams - to understand how they build software, demonstrate how Cursor transforms developer productivity, and land and expand Cursor across their organizations.</p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Own a named book of federal accounts; drive new agency acquisition, expansion revenue, and long-term strategic growth</li>
<li>Lead complex, multi-threaded sales cycles across Engineering, Product, Security, Procurement, Legal, and mission-critical stakeholders</li>
<li>Become a trusted product expert; guide federal prospects through trials, technical evaluations, security reviews, and large-scale rollouts</li>
<li>Build executive relationships and cultivate day-to-day champions across agencies, integrators, and technical teams</li>
<li>Quantify value with clear ROI cases tied to developer productivity, AI adoption, mission outcomes, and secure software delivery</li>
<li>Be the voice of the federal customer and influence the roadmap with actionable feedback on product, compliance, deployment, and procurement needs</li>
<li>Partner closely with Field Engineering and our AI Deployment team to deliver outcomes from proof of concept through production deployment and expansion</li>
<li>Navigate federal procurement processes, contract vehicles, partners, and compliance requirements to accelerate adoption</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You have 5+ years of closing experience in enterprise or federal technology sales, ideally selling developer tools, technical SaaS, infrastructure, cybersecurity, or emerging technologies</li>
<li>You have a consistent track record of landing new logos, expanding strategic accounts, and exceeding quota through self-sourced pipeline generation</li>
<li>You&#39;re a true hunter , you proactively build pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, account mapping, partner leverage, creative sourcing, and relentless follow-up</li>
<li>You&#39;re comfortable navigating complex federal sales cycles and selling to technical and mission-oriented stakeholders , from engineers and program leaders to CISOs, CIOs, and senior executives</li>
<li>You understand, or are excited to learn, federal buying motions, procurement processes, security expectations, and partner ecosystems</li>
<li>You bring an analytical approach to understanding customer needs combined with creative, tactical follow-through to advance opportunities</li>
<li>You&#39;re an excellent communicator who can build trust across all levels of an organization</li>
<li>You&#39;re passionate about AI and excited by the idea that transforming how software gets written is one of the most important problems to work on right now</li>
</ul>
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      <jobtype>full-time</jobtype>
      <experiencelevel>senior</experiencelevel>
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      <skills>enterprise sales, federal sales, developer tools, AI-powered tools, technical SaaS, infrastructure, cybersecurity, emerging technologies</skills>
      <category>Sales</category>
      <industry>Technology</industry>
      <employername>Cursor</employername>
      <employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/cursor.com.png</employerlogo>
      <employerdescription>Cursor is a company that transforms developer productivity with AI-powered tools.</employerdescription>
      <employerwebsite>https://cursor.com</employerwebsite>
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      <location>DC-metro area</location>
      <city>DC-metro area</city>
      <state></state>
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      <country></country>
      <postedate>2026-07-01</postedate>
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