Founding Account Executive at Clara Legal | Toronto, CAN | Rezi

Founding Account Executive at Clara Legal

Founding Account Executive

Clara Legal · Toronto, CAN

1 months ago

Founding Account Executive

Clara Legal · Toronto, CAN

2 months ago
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About the Role

You will be the first dedicated go-to-market hire, working directly with technology companies and investment institutions to identify legal needs, demonstrate our unique approach, and close new business. This role involves selling a fundamentally new way of delivering legal services and defining our go-to-market strategy. As a founding hire, you will shape the sales playbook, pricing, and client onboarding processes.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the external face of the company to prospective clients, ensuring every interaction reflects the quality and ambition of what we're building.
  • Build trusted relationships with General Counsels and legal leaders.
  • Identify, qualify, and close new client relationships with technology companies and investment institutions.
  • Run the full sales cycle from outreach through contract execution.
  • Develop and refine our sales playbook, messaging, and objection handling.
  • Partner with the legal team to translate our capabilities into compelling client-facing narratives.
  • Own pipeline management, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Provide market feedback to the product and legal teams to inform how we evolve our offering.

Requirements

  • 3-10 years in B2B sales, business development, or client acquisition.
  • Experience selling professional services, legal tech, or to legal buyers is a strong plus, but not required if you have the commercial instincts, hustle, and credibility with lawyers.
  • Energized by building from zero; willing to write the playbook.
  • Ability to explain a complex, novel service offering clearly and compellingly.
  • Comfortable in rooms with senior legal professionals.
  • Desire to understand how legal work actually gets done to sell a better way of doing it.
  • Treat pipeline and revenue targets as personal commitments.
  • Ambition to play a critical role in transforming a societally important industry.

Skills

  • B2B sales
  • Business development
  • Client acquisition
  • Sales playbook development
  • Messaging
  • Objection handling
  • Pipeline management
  • Forecasting
  • Reporting
  • Client relationship building
  • Full sales cycle management

Experience Level

  • Open to candidates across a range of experience levels
  • Early career with strong hustle and commercial instincts (AE role)
  • More experienced with a track record of building sales functions (GTM leadership role)

Salary/Compensations

  • Competitive base salary plus commission plus equity
  • Compensation is commensurate with experience

About the Company

  • Stealth company in legal AI, backed by leading venture investors.
  • Designed from the ground up to transform the practice of law.
  • Delivers elite legal services with fast turnaround, predictable pricing, and a transformed client experience.
  • Combines bleeding-edge automation with top-tier lawyers.
  • Founding team brings experience from frontier AI labs, elite law firms, and top law schools.
  • Small team making earliest hires with significant opportunity to shape the company and the legal profession.

Equal Opportunity

  • We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all.
  • We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
  • Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please reach out to contact@clara.law.