Account Executive (AE) - Southern California
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The Account Executive (AE) at Sweed owns the full sales cycle for net-new and existing dispensary locations in Southern California, reporting to the Vice President of Success. Success is measured by closed ARR and door-count targets monthly, supported by a best-in-class commission plan.
Key Responsibilities
Pipeline Generation
- Prospect, sequence, and qualify 12+ new dispensary accounts each week through targeted outbound, regional events, and partner referrals.
- Build and maintain ≥ 4× quota pipeline coverage in HubSpot, ensuring every prospect has a documented next step.
Deal Execution
- Lead discovery, ROI-focused demos, and multi-threaded negotiations for SMB opportunities, tailoring value propositions to each stakeholder.
- Structure and close bundled contracts (POS, payments, text-messaging) in PandaDoc, maximizing ACV while protecting margin and compliance.
Forecast & Governance
- Keep deal stages, close dates, and action plans current in HubSpot; submit a weekly commit forecast with clear upside, best-case, and commit numbers.
- Achieve ≥ 95% CRM hygiene and deliver consistent 30-60-90-day forecast accuracy for executive reporting.
Cross-Functional Alignment
- Partner with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success on regional campaigns, pilots, and upsell plays, sharing competitive intel and win-loss insights.
- Co-develop account strategies that lift cross-sell rates and expansion ARR, hitting joint KPIs for adoption and retention.
Voice of Customer & Continuous Improvement
- Capture product feedback, compliance hurdles, and market trends in a structured VOC log; present findings in quarterly reviews to influence roadmap.
- Contribute to iterative refinement of sales playbooks, demo scripts, and onboarding materials, ensuring best practices scale with team growth.
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Sweed
View Company ProfileSweed is a premier, enterprise-grade cannabis retail operating platform engineered to orchestrate massive-scale dispensary ecosystems and intelligent frictionless commercial workflows. Operating as a highly integrated, all-in-one retail technology hub, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional, fragmented cannabis management systems—which often require disparate tools for POS, marketing, and inventory—by seamlessly deploying advanced unified telemetry, rigorous AI-driven personalized-recommendation architectures, and cohesive omnichannel loyalty and analytics frameworks. Moving beyond rigid legacy point-of-sale models, Sweed empowers multi-state operators (MSOs), vertically integrated cannabis enterprises, and high-growth retail brands to dynamically synchronize their storefront, e-commerce, and delivery pipelines with elite autonomous execution. Under the hood, their sophisticated proprietary data infrastructure—SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II compliant—natively manages complex real-time inventory tracking, instantaneous compliance-constrained transaction routing, and automated AI-powered marketing engagement loops. Backed by strategic mergers (such as the integration with wholesale powerhouse Leaf Trade) and maintaining one of the industry's largest in-house development teams, what sets Sweed apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless dispensary orchestration; by bridging the gap between highly volatile, regulated compliance landscapes and accessible, consumer-friendly digital commerce, the platform empowers cannabis retailers to radically accelerate their revenue-growth velocity, eliminate operational overhead, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous commercial and institutional dominance in the modern global cannabis market.
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