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Poetic

AI-powered automation for high-stakes enterprise processes

Enterprise GTM

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
In PersonTravel is required; face-to-face time with senior executives is core to the role.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven success as a Majors, Strategic Account Executive, or Account Director closing deals with more than $1 million in annual contract value.
  • At least 6 years of enterprise or strategic go-to-market experience in artificial intelligence, software as a service, cloud, or data platforms.
  • Established credibility and leverageable relationships within financial services, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare, supply chain, or other large industries.
  • A consultative, solutions-oriented approach combining platform, product, and implementation to drive outcomes.
  • Deep curiosity about the company's capabilities and how they solve real-world problems.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • Experience selling to and influencing C-suite executives.
  • Experience building compounding, multi-year partnerships with key industry parties.
  • Experience at companies with deeply technical, consultative, and implementation-heavy sales motions.
Responsibilities
  • Generate pipeline and work day-to-day with the chief executive officer to open doors and qualify use cases.
  • Act as a trusted consultative selling partner to enterprise leaders.
  • Define multi-year initiatives that begin with a single workstream and expand across a customer's business.
  • Drive new business by opening new accounts through personal networks and partnering with the founder to build pipeline and broker introductions to large enterprises.
  • Define and own commercial functions, including contracting, master service agreements, legal processes, and revenue lifecycle management.
  • Source initial engagements and collaborate with the deployments function to turn them into multi-workflow, multi-year partnerships.
  • Translate customer feedback, objections, and market signals to product and deployments teams to improve positioning and the product.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building and hiring go-to-market teams.

About the company

Poetic automates complex, high-stakes enterprise processes like fraud investigations, transaction monitoring, and disputes using programmable pipelines that learn like AI but run like code. Operators describe multi-hour workflows in natural language, and Poetic encodes that expertise into deterministic, auditable processes rather than relying on autonomous agents. The system delivers about 99% accuracy on automated tasks for Fortune 500 financial firms and counts SoFi and AIG as customers, with an eight-figure annual run rate in 2025. Its goal is to extend reliable, auditable automation to more regulated industries that require trusted, scalable workflow automation.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$50M

Headquarters

Manhattan Beach, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI, and Founders Fund backed the June 2026 Series A.
  • Poetic reached an eight-figure run rate and profitability in 2025.
  • Fortune 500 financial customers already generated double-digit millions in savings by June 2026.

What critics are saying

  • A single workflow defect in fraud or underwriting triggers customer loss and regulatory scrutiny.
  • Workato, Appian, Camunda, and Pega already own enterprise automation budgets in 2026.
  • Poetic's four-person 2025 core must scale fast or the $500 million narrative collapses.

What makes Poetic unique

  • June 2026: Poetic runs deterministic enterprise workflows, not free-form agents.
  • Poetic claims 99%+ accuracy on SoFi fraud investigations and AIG underwriting.
  • Founder Markie Wagner rebuilt Forge into Poetic after Waymo and Delphi.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-4%

1 year growth

-4%

2 year growth

-4%
Bloomberg
Jun 10th, 2026
OpenAI backs AI startup Poetic with $50M to automate compliance and underwriting

Poetic, an AI startup, has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding from OpenAI and other investors. The company aims to help businesses streamline complex tasks including insurance underwriting and financial compliance.