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# Account Executive at Relay Payments

- **Company:** Relay Payments
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/relaypayments/jobs/7869893003

## Job description

## About Relay Payments

Relay Payments is a modern, digital payment network for the trucking and logistics industries. Trusted by more than 500,000 drivers, 100,000 carriers, and 3,000 truck stops nationwide, Relay has brought efficiency and automation to an industry historically reliant on cash, checks, and cards. Relay has joined forces with industry leaders like Pilot, Love’s, Maverik, Schneider, Old Dominion, Lineage Logistics, and others to provide secure, reliable over-the-road transactions. Founded in 2019, our Atlanta-based fintech includes more than 150 team members and has won awards for product innovation, customer service, and organizational culture. For more information about Relay, visit relaypayments.com.

## About The Role

This is a full-cycle Account Executive position that will play an integral role in generating revenue across the Relay Payments suite of products. You’ll be selling Relay’s platform to small and medium sized trucking fleets to help them save time and entirely eliminate fraud. We’re growing this team to support the largest segment within this industry and help the 20,000+ carrier fleets within the US who are looking to eliminate fraud in their business. Successful candidates will demonstrate the following skills:

- Own your pipeline. Effectively outbound prospect to gain new customer business.
- You’ll own the entire sales process from prospecting and qualifying opportunities to running the sales playbook and closing revenue.
- Our customers operate in a fast-paced environment, so Account Executives need to be able to convey our product value in concise and streamlined conversations to deliver business results quickly.
- Collaborate with customer implementation teams to ensure new customers are onboarded properly.
- Communicate customer feedback and process improvements to ensure the success of our new products.
- This position requires you to be in the office 3 days a week (hybrid environment).

## About You

- You have 1+ year of sales experience (as an Account Executive or BDR). Daily prospecting to build qualified pipeline feels natural to you.
- You know how to effectively manage shorter sales cycles (30 days or less) and win deals at volume (5-6+ closed won deals per month).
- You are an excellent communicator. You answer questions succinctly and informatively and always prioritize the customer experience.
- You’re able to work onsite at our Cobb-Galleria office three days a week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
- Previous experience selling FinTech products or Freight preferred, but not required.

Our Core Values

- Invent the Future - We embrace the spirit of invention, the idea that there’s always a better way. Together we dream big, fail fast, drive forward, and find creative solutions where others see roadblocks. We prize grit, resilience and speed as we work to transform our industry and to move it into the future.
- Own the Work - Our work is a source of personal pride and fulfillment. We’re here because we relish a challenge and enjoy the exercise of proactively identifying and solving problems. We understand the power of accountability and are in constant pursuit of “more and better” for our customers, our partners and ourselves.
- We’re in it Together - We’re all in, committed to, and driven by our shared ambition and vision; we understand that alignment and collaboration are imperative. We set aside our ego to actively sync with one another, becoming greater than the sum of our parts. We are consistently open and generous with information, clear, concise and direct in our communication.

## Why Relay Payments

- This is a game-changing chance to join one of Atlanta’s best-funded, most well-positioned fintech start-ups.
- We are generously sharing equity in the company - everyone’s an owner!
- We invest in your future with our 401K match program and dedicated personal/professional development funds.
- Do what’s best for your mental, physical and emotional health with our “Unlimited/Be Reasonable” PTO policy.
- We offer competitive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance.
- And lots, lots more!

## About Relay Payments

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Relay Payments is a venture-backed fintech company that operates a digital payment network for the freight and logistics industry, replacing cash, checks, and cards with instant digital transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Ryan Droege and Spencer Barkoff

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech) / Transportation & Logistics / Supply Chain Payments
- **Target customers**: B2B; Freight brokers, large carriers (fleets), small fleets, independent owner-operators, and merchants (fuel stops, repair shops, warehouses, CAT Scale locations).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build a digital payment network that keeps America’s trucks moving by replacing the outdated payment methods that slow down the supply chain. [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Relay Payments Network**: A digital platform connecting carriers, brokers, drivers, and merchants on a single network to process instant payments for over-the-road (OTR) expenses.
- **Fuel Payments**: Digital payments accepted at thousands of merchants nationwide for diesel fuel.
- **Lumper Payments**: Instant, cash-free payments for unloading goods at docks, saving drivers more than 30 minutes on average per stop.
- **Scale Payments**: Digital payments accepted at over 2,200 CAT Scale locations nationwide.
- **Repair & Maintenance**: Payments for truck repairs, truck washes, oil, and additives.
- **Relay Pulse**: A fraud control system designed to secure transactions and improve fleet integrity.
- **Broker-to-Carrier Payments (Freight Payments)**: Allows brokers to make fast, secure digital freight payments to carriers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of approximately **$123.0 million** across 4 rounds (up to Series C). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/relay-payments) / [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/relay-payments)
- **Key Metric**: **500,000+** carriers and drivers use Relay to manage OTR expenses. [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Pilot Company, Coyote Logistics, J.B. Hunt, Schneider, Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) — ODFL selected Relay to automate payments for over 10,500 drivers. [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/about)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount grew **+13.5% YoY** to ~99 employees. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/relay-payments)
    - 300+ integrations with fleet management systems, including a recent integration with Platform Science’s in-cab ecosystem. [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/about)
    - Active hiring with a recent focus on Account Executives.
    - Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces lists. [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/about)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network Effects**: Connects all stakeholders (fleets, brokers, drivers, merchants) on a single platform, creating a powerful two-sided marketplace that increases value as more users join.
- **Fraud Protection**: Relay’s digital network and Pulse fraud controls provide significantly more security than legacy cash, check, or card transactions in a historically fraud-prone industry.
- **Speed & Efficiency**: Eliminates the 30+ minute delay associated with traditional payment authorization at docks (lumpering) and scales, significantly improving driver dwell time and supply chain velocity.
- **Deep Industry Focus**: Built specifically for the logistics and freight industry, not a generic payment solution, allowing for tailored features and integrations.

## Strategic Focus
- **Network Expansion**: Continuously adding new merchants (fuel stops, scales, repair shops) to deepen the network’s coverage across North America.
- **Fraud Prevention**: Investing heavily in Relay Pulse and other fraud detection technologies to build trust and reduce financial risk for fleets and brokers.
- **Integration Ecosystem**: Expanding partnerships and integrations with Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and in-cab tech platforms (like Platform Science) to become an embedded, frictionless part of the driver and fleet workflow.
- **Scaling the Sales Team**: The current active job posting for an Account Executive suggests a focus on aggressive sales growth and acquiring new broker and fleet customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Collaborative, people-first culture." [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/careers). The company is recognized as a top workplace by Inc. Magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid model. The team works out of their Atlanta office but also remotely, described as "mostly from home" for many roles.
- **Compensation & Benefits**:
    - **Equity**: Grants and stock options for all employees. ("Everyone’s an owner!")
    - **Health**: State-of-the-art healthcare including dental, vision, and life insurance.
    - **Financial**: 401k Plan with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%; performance bonuses; referral bonuses.
    - **Time Off**: Unlimited PTO and generous parental leave.
    - **Perks**: Regular team check-ins, wellness sessions, quarterly Relay Roundups, monthly Relay Rallies, and peer-nominated "Relay Rave" awards.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Joining a well-funded, venture-backed company that is scaling rapidly and transforming a massive, traditional industry. Employees have ownership and direct impact on a product used by 500,000+ users.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on innovation and ownership. The technical team makes up 21% of the workforce, with roles like Head of Quality Engineering and a Chief Technology Officer (Sergii Koval). The company has employees across 10 countries, including a technical hub in Ukraine.

## Sources
1. [relaypayments.com](https://www.relaypayments.com/)
2. [relaypayments.com/careers](https://www.relaypayments.com/careers)
3. [relaypayments.com/about](https://www.relaypayments.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/relay-payments](https://www.linkedin.com/company/relay-payments)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/relay-payments](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/relay-payments)

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