Associate Account Executive
Sales & Business Development
Chicago, IL, USA
Who We Are:
Datassential is a leading global intelligence platform for the food and beverage industry. Leveraging billions of data points and cutting-edge AI, we provide a suite of innovative solutions that empower more than 90% of the world’s largest food and beverage brands to develop, market, and sell their products more effectively.
Based in Chicago, USA, Datassential has expanded its global reach through strategic acquisitions of CHD Expert (France) in 2022 and Brizo Data, Inc. (Canada) in 2025. In 2024, we secured investment from top-tier private equity firms New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital—a milestone that fuels our accelerated product roadmap and strengthens our research and development, enabling us to deliver even greater value to our clients.
Our remote-first, globally distributed team thrives on diverse perspectives and deep expertise in the food and beverage space. Food brings people together and at Datassential’s table, there’s room for everyone.
What We Need:
We're hiring an Associate Account Executive to generate an outbound pipeline for a team of Account Executives selling the food and beverage industry's most trusted intelligence platform.
Here's the shape of the role, plainly: your first year is built around prospecting. You'll spend it generating pipeline, learning this industry, and learning how we sell data, close enough to real deals to understand how they get won. From there, the role is designed to lead into a full-cycle selling seat with defined criteria, not a someday conversation. If you want a closing seat and want to earn it somewhere with real market position, this is the on-ramp.
Why You Should Join Us:
Most prospecting roles promise growth and leave it vague. This one is explicit about the order of operations: prospecting and industry fluency first, full-cycle selling second.
You'll report to a sales leader who coaches rather than just tracks metrics, supports a small group of AEs closely enough to learn how deals get done, and sell a product more than 90% of the world's largest food and beverage brands already trust. Backed by New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital, Datassential is an established name with customers already in the market you'd be selling into.
Who You Are:
You're a hunter. Outbound energizes you, a full calendar of cold calls doesn't rattle you, and you're competitive about your number. Nobody has to tell you to pick up the phone. You know this industry, or you're hungry to. Time in food and beverage, hospitality, or CPG, distribution, foodservice, a manufacturer, restaurant tech, means you already speak the language of menus, operators, distributors, and brand teams.
You're on one of two paths: newer to sales and wanting to learn pipeline generation properly, or already selling full-cycle at a manufacturer or distributor and wanting to join a stable market leader, build elite prospecting fundamentals, and put that into practice in a closing seat here.
Either way, you're clear-eyed about the trade. You're taking a prospecting-first year on purpose.
What You Will Do:
Own outbound pipeline for approximately three or more Account Executives: calls, sequences, and social selling into F&B operators, manufacturers, and distributors
Ramp quickly on our data and use cases, and learn which buyer cares about which one
Hit daily and weekly activity targets without letting quality slip
Research accounts and build target lists in Salesforce, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and AI tooling
Qualify interest and book meetings your AEs are glad to take
Act as a pipeline partner to your AEs, sharing account intelligence, not just forwarding leads
Build the industry fluency and fundamentals that prepare you for a full-cycle role
What You Bring:
Demonstrated outbound prospecting experience, as an SDR or BDR, or in a full-cycle sales role with real outbound responsibility
A track record of ramping quickly, or clear early signal of it
Comfort with high-volume outbound and the discipline to hold activity targets without losing quality
Sharp written and verbal communication
A bias toward action: curious, coachable, resourceful, unbothered by rejection
Clear ambition toward a full-cycle selling role
Nice To Have:
Background in food and beverage, hospitality, or CPG
Working knowledge of Salesforce and tools like ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Groove, or AI research tools
Experience in SaaS, data, or another subscription business
Compensation & Eligibility:
This role is open to candidates currently residing in and authorized to work in either the United States or Canada. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
The base salary range for this role is $55,000–$60,000 USD, plus commission. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, relevant experience, and work location.
US Benefits
Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance, including a no-cost employee-only plan
Paid parental leave
401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 5%
Unlimited PTO, recharge days, and a Christmas through New Year break
Wellness reimbursement or HQ gym access
Employee stipend
Benefits listed above apply to US-based candidates only.
Our Table Welcomes All. We embrace diversity of both background and thought and foster an inclusive environment that extends an open landscape of opportunities to everyone. We invite each of us to simply be ourselves. We operate with respect and without judgment, celebrating both the power of the individual as well as our shared humanity.
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact careers@datassential.com.
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