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Senior Strategic Account Executive

Upside · USA · back to the listing

HR standards

56/100

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Title ↔ description

92/100

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Reads as

Sales Representative

100% confident

What this role officially is

commercial sales representative — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Commercial sales representatives represent a company in selling and providing information on goods and services to businesses and organisations.

Also known as: field sales representative, technical and commercial sales executive, field sales executive, sales and marketing consultant, business development representative, technical and commercial sales representative

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What the listing never says

  • 27 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

The listing, marked up

Meet Upside:

We created Upside to transform brick-and-mortar commerce. Our technology uses the sophistication of online retail—profit measurement, attribution, and incrementality—to provide users with more value on their everyday purchases and brick-and-mortar businesses with new, profitable customers. We’ve helped millions of users earn 2 to 3 times more cashback than any other product, and hundreds of thousands of brick-and-mortar businesses earn measurable profit. Billions of dollars in commerce run through the Upside platform every year, and that value goes directly back to our retailer partners, the consumers they serve, and important sustainability initiatives.

The Impact You’ll Make:

Upside is a fast-growing company in search of an experienced hunter who can help drive further growth by signing up new Enterprise fuel accounts — large fuel retail chains, wholesalers, and marketers. We are looking for sellers with a consistent track record of exceeding quotas and goals. You will join a team whose experience hails from places as varied as Google, Affirm, Klarna, MasterCard, and successful startup executives and venture capitalists.

As a Senior Strategic Account Executive, Fuel, reporting to our VP, Enterprise Fuel, your responsibilities will include:

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Partnering with Sales leadership and the larger fuel team to implement our sales strategy and onboard enterprise fuel accounts onto the platform

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Building relationships and selling consultatively to Director, VP, and C-Level executives at enterprise fuel accounts

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Effectively presenting the Upside value proposition to enterprise fuel accounts, through a data-driven, incrementality-focused sales approach

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Working directly with our internal Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to support go-to-market strategy, merchant launches, roadmaps, and key partnerships

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Leading and implementing effective sales strategies, pipeline management, and opportunity management

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Building a pipeline and managing your forecast for new fuel merchants added to the platform

Competencies You'll Need:

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10+ years1 of sales experience with 7+ years of experience selling to enterprise SaaS and/or fuel, convenience retail, or downstream energy technology companies

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Experience working with executives on pricing, planning, finance, and marketing is a plus

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Successful track record of achieving/exceeding quotas required (existing fuel-industry relationships are a bonus, but not required)

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Proven success building and scaling a book of business from early stage to high growth

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Adept in structured sales training methodologies and rigorous CRM pipeline management, specifically Salesforce.

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Ability to travel 30-50% of the time

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Start-up experience desired

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Bachelor's degree or higher (Master's degree preferred). Experience may be considered as a substitute for education depending on relevance

Location:

This role offers location flexibility, however, if you’re based in the Washington, D.C., Austin, Chicago, or NYC metropolitan regions, in-office attendance is required on a hybrid basis.

Compensation:

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000 - $200,000 + commissions + equity + benefits. The final starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.

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Benefits:

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Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1

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Equity (ISOs)

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401(k) program

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Family planning programs + paid parental leave

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Physical fitness and wellness memberships

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Emotional and mental health support programs

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Unlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + our annual, week-long Winter Break

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Flexible work environment

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Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees

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Employee Resource Groups

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Learning and Development stipend

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Transparent culture

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Amazing mission!

Diversity and Inclusion:

Diversity drives innovation, and our differences make us stronger. We‘re passionate about building a workplace that represents a variety of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Everyone is welcome here!

If there's anything we can do to support a disability or special need during your application or interview process, please email [email protected].

This email is for accessibility accommodations only, it should not be used to submit job applications.

Notice To Recruiters And Placement Agencies:

This is an in-house search with a dedicated recruiter. Please do not submit resumes to any person or email address at Upside. Upside is not liable for, and will not pay, placement fees for candidates submitted by any party or agency other than its approved recruitment partners.

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 72 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.