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# Founding Account Executive at Flexport

- **Company:** Flexport
- **Location:** Warsaw, Poland
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/8147315

## Job description

About Flexport:

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

About the role:

This role is based in Flexport’s new Warsaw office and is one of the first Account Executive positions on the ground in Poland. As part of the founding commercial team, you have the opportunity to build a completely new territory within Flexport — shaping the go-to-market approach, establishing the first enterprise relationships, and helping define how Flexport operates and wins in the Polish market from the ground up.

You will be responsible for driving complex, high-value enterprise deals and establishing long-term strategic partnerships with large customers. This role owns advanced, multi-stakeholder sales cycles that often span regions, business units, and decision layers.

You will be operating with a high degree of autonomy, shaping deal strategy, influencing executive stakeholders, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver differentiated, value-driven solutions.

Pipeline & Opportunity Ownership

- Own and close high-value, complex enterprise opportunities, consistently meeting or exceeding individual quotas.
- Build a strategic pipeline through self-prospecting, account planning, and SDR partnership.
- Proactively identify whitespace, expansion potential, and multi-entity opportunities within target accounts.
- Maintain forecasting, opportunity hygiene, and deal governance in Salesforce (SFDC).

Strategic Discovery & Solution Architecture

- Lead executive-level discovery to understand enterprise supply chain strategy, risk posture, and long-term business objectives.
- Navigate complex buying groups across procurement, ops, finance, IT, and senior leadership.
- Design integrated, multi-product Flexport solutions aligned to customer priorities and business outcomes.
- Position Flexport as a strategic partner through compelling value narratives, business cases, and solution roadmaps.

Deal Strategy, Negotiation & Closing

- Own end-to-end deal strategy for complex opportunities, including stakeholder mapping, decision criteria, and close plans.
- Lead advanced commercial negotiation, pricing, contracts, and non-standard deal structures.
- Orchestrate internal stakeholders (Ops, Finance, Legal, Product) to progress deals efficiently

Onboarding, Expansion & Relationship Leadership

- Own the onboarding motion, ensuring enterprise customers are set up for scalable success.
- Establish and maintain trusted relationships with senior and executive customer stakeholders.
- Identify expansion opportunities together with Account Management to drive sustained growth.
- Serve as a point of escalation and strategic advisor during the customer lifecycle.

Enterprise Leadership & Market Impact

- Act as a senior commercial voice in enterprise pursuits, sharing market insight and customer feedback internally.
- Contribute to enterprise sales best practices, deal reviews, and peer coaching.
- Represent Flexport with credibility and confidence in high-stakes customer interactions.
- As part of the founding Poland team, help shape early market strategy and commercial playbooks that will define Flexport’s approach to the territory going forward.

Prerequisites

- 5+ years of experience managing complex, enterprise-level sales cycles with consistent quota attainment.
- Proven ability to close large, multi-stakeholder deals with long sales cycles and high deal complexity.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior decision-makers.
- Advanced discovery, negotiation, and value-based selling skills.
- High degree of autonomy, strategic thinking, and commercial judgment.
- Strong logistics, freight forwarding, or supply chain industry experience preferred.
- Self-sufficient learner with a track record of ramping quickly in new markets, products, or environments without an established playbook to follow.
- High level of intellectual curiosity — proactively seeks out market, product, and customer knowledge rather than waiting for it to be provided.
- Deep understanding of the Polish market and local business landscape, with the credibility to engage enterprise buyers from day one.
- Strong mix of supply chain/logistics industry knowledge and tech sales acumen, able to sell a platform-based solution with the same confidence as a traditional freight service.
- High degree of agility and adaptability — comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving priorities as the Poland territory is built out.
- Fluent in Polish and English; additional languages are a plus.

What we offer:

- An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a  thriving multinational environment
- Lunch allowance: Up to €12 per day.
- Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours. As a private company in a multi-trillion dollar industry, you have a direct stake in our collective growth and success.
- Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living: Flexport provides an employer-sponsored program at no cost to you and your household members

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants

Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. Please see our Privacy Notice available at [www.flexport.com/privacy](http://www.flexport.com/privacy) for additional information.

## About Flexport

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flexport is a technology-driven freight forwarding and supply chain platform that uses AI to coordinate global logistics from factory to customer door.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Ryan Petersen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Logistics, Supply Chain Technology, Freight Forwarding
- **Target customers**: B2B — enterprise and SMB businesses that import/export goods globally across industries
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To make global trade so easy there will be more of it."

## Products & Services
- **Ocean & Air Freight**: Full-service ocean and air freight solutions with SKU-level visibility, real-time tracking, and cost management.
- **Customs Brokerage**: Licensed customs brokers using AI to review 100% of entries before submission, achieving a compliance error rate 10x better than next best in class.
- **Booking Management**: Platform to manage ocean contracts and bookings, track real-time performance, and optimize allocation strategies.
- **Buyer’s Consolidation**: Service to maximize container utilization by grouping multiple suppliers into one container, reducing freight and labor costs.
- **Supply Chain AI Platform**: AI-driven decision-making platform that automates processes, reduces freight spend by 10% or more, and deploys large language models and AI agents for real-world logistics optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 2.9x net revenue growth since 2024; serves more than 13,000 customers across 147 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ryan Petersen (Founder & CEO); major investors include Founders Fund, SoftBank Vision Fund, and others (specific lead investors not fully detailed in provided sources)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid AI deployment in logistics; 400+ software engineers focused on AI; net revenue growth of 2.9x since 2024; expanding global presence with offices worldwide

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-world AI deployment**: Unlike many supply chain AI startups, Flexport is deeply embedded in actual operations of moving cargo by ocean, air, truck, and rail, with proprietary data and integrations.
- **Scale and trust**: 13,000+ customers and integration with enterprise systems, logistics service providers, and governments.
- **Customs compliance**: AI auditor reviews 100% of entries, achieving 10x better error rate than next best in class.
- **End-to-end platform**: Single platform covering freight, customs, booking, and consolidation, reducing silos and complexity.
- **Data ontology**: Proprietary data ontology for global logistics, enabling powerful AI models.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven autonomous supply chain**: Building AI agents to create an autonomous supply chain, deploying the latest foundational AI models on top of proprietary data and integrations.
- **Customer obsession**: Prioritizing customer success and hard cost savings (e.g., 10%+ reduction in freight spend).
- **Global expansion**: Operating across continents and time zones, with offices in multiple global locations.
- **Talent development**: Aiming to hire 80% of manager and above roles from within, developing early-career talent into leaders.

## Why Work Here
- **Meritocracy**: Compensation and advancement based on value created, with rapid growth opportunities for smart, hardworking people. Many leaders started on the ground floor.
- **Learning environment**: Described as "the best company to learn about how the world works" — logistics underlies the global economy. Employees speak over 70 languages.
- **Cutting-edge technology**: 400+ software engineers deploying latest AI models in real-world logistics; roles include Senior Software Engineer: Applied AI, Autonomous Freight Systems, and Data Infrastructure.
- **Culture**: Values include "Win as a Team," "Empower the Client," "Play the Long Game," "Act Like an Entrepreneur," and "Simplify." Recognized as a Great Place to Work.
- **Global and remote-friendly**: 125 open positions across Engineering, Operations, Sales, Customs, and more, with offices worldwide and remote options.
- **Impact**: Working on the $8.6T global logistics market — "the single largest opportunity to apply AI anywhere in the world."

## Sources
1. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/)
2. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/)
3. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/company/about-us/)
4. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/)
5. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/?gh_src=c0d6caef1)

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