Full-Time

Account Executive

Updated on 9/3/2026

Obvio

Obvio

51-200 employees

AI-powered traffic monitoring and automated enforcement

No salary listed

Colorado, USA

In Person

Occasional travel across the U.S. is required for customer engagements, pilots, and strategic opportunities.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Forecasting
CRM

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Requirements
  • Experience selling GovTech solutions, especially in law enforcement, transportation, or public safety.
  • Proven success opening new markets or selling early-stage or emerging products.
  • Experience operating in mid-market to enterprise deal environments.
  • Experience in high-growth, early-stage companies where ambiguity and iteration are common.
  • A track record of managing full-cycle sales in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Ability to uncover customer needs and align solutions to outcomes.
  • Ability to credibly engage with senior government and agency leaders.
  • Comfort with longer sales cycles and evolving product narratives.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and leadership.
  • Strong follow-through in customer relationship management hygiene, forecasting, and pipeline management.
Responsibilities
  • Own and close mid-market to enterprise opportunities.
  • Sell into state and local government agencies, focusing on transportation, public safety, and law-enforcement-adjacent stakeholders.
  • Navigate complex buying committees, long sales cycles, and procurement processes.
  • Develop points of view on customer pain points and translate them into compelling business cases.
  • Partner with product and engineering to support pilots, proofs of concept, and customer feedback loops.
  • Help refine sales playbooks, messaging, and early go-to-market processes.
  • Represent the company at customer meetings, site visits, and industry events as needed.

Obvio.ai provides AI-powered traffic monitoring and automated enforcement for municipalities, law enforcement, and traffic management authorities. Its system analyzes traffic feeds in real time, using solar-powered hardware and remote operation to supply dashboards, automated citation issuance, and driver education tools. It differentiates itself by delivering end-to-end, real-time enforcement with easy deployments and ongoing service, reducing risky violations and saving officers time through automation. The goal is to improve road safety and operational efficiency in smart city and public safety contexts by making traffic monitoring scalable, maintainable, and data-driven.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$28.7M

Headquarters

San Carlos, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • Obvio's $22 million Series A from Bain Capital Ventures funds national rollout.
  • Prince George's County saw roughly 70% fewer stop-sign runners after Obvio deployment.
  • Virginia law starting July 1, 2026 opens a new enforcement market for Obvio.

What critics are saying

  • Privacy backlash against AI traffic cameras can trigger city cancellations within months.
  • Obvio depends on favorable state laws; SB84 reversals would freeze Virginia expansion.
  • A Flock-style scandal could stigmatize Obvio and kill procurement across Maryland and Virginia.

What makes Obvio unique

  • Obvio's on-device AI avoids cloud uploads, reducing surveillance concerns versus Flock.
  • Virginia's SB84 names Obvio-ready stop-sign and crosswalk enforcement, a regulatory moat.
  • Takoma Park contracted Obvio for 20-plus cameras, showing municipal traction.

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Homebrew
Aug 14th, 2025
Obvio Raises $22M for Safer Streets

Obvio has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round to enhance road safety. The company uses a combination of software and hardware, starting with camera devices installed at intersections by local governments. Obvio's platform monitors, educates, and enforces traffic rules, even assisting in issuing tickets for severe violations. Their mission is to reduce the 40,000 annual roadway deaths caused by reckless driving.

FinSMEs
Jun 4th, 2025
Obvio Raises $22M in Series A Funding

Obvio, a San Carlos, CA-based company importing traffic safety with an AI-powered traffic camera solution, raised $22M in Series A funding

UBOS
Jun 4th, 2025
Obvio's AI-Powered Cameras Revolutionize Road Safety

Based in San Carlos, California, Obvio has recently secured a $22 million Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, a testament to the confidence investors have in its mission.

Morningstar
Jun 4th, 2025
Obvio Raises $22M for AI Traffic Safety

Obvio has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Pathlight Ventures. The funds will be used to expand their AI-powered traffic safety solutions nationally. Obvio's technology, which includes solar-powered AI cameras, aims to reduce traffic fatalities by detecting dangerous driving behaviors and enabling automatic citations. In Prince George's County, Maryland, their program reduced stop sign violations by 50% in eight weeks.

TechCrunch
Jun 4th, 2025
Obvio’S Stop Sign Cameras Use Ai To Root Out Unsafe Drivers

American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs — a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon.That’s a bold claim at a time when other companies like Flock have been criticized for how its license plate-reading cameras have become a crucial tool in an overreaching surveillance state.Obvio founders Ali Rehan and Dhruv Maheshwari believe they can build a big enough business without indulging those worst impulses. They’ve designed the product with surveillance and data-sharing limitations to ensure they can follow through with that claim.They’ve found deep pockets willing to believe them, too. The company has just completed a $22 million Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Obvio plans to use those funds to expand beyond the first five cities where it’s currently operating in Maryland.Rehan and Maheshwari met while working at Motive, a company that makes dashboard cameras for the trucking industry. While there, Maheshwari told TechCrunch the pair realized “a lot of other normal passenger vehicles are awful drivers.”The founders said they were stunned the more they looked into road safety