Sales Executive – AI Startups (US)

Hybrid in San Francisco, CA, US • Posted 3 days ago • Updated 3 days ago
Full Time
No Travel Required
On-site
$100,000 - $150,000/yr
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Job Details

Skills

  • Professional Services

Summary

Position Overview

We are seeking a high-caliber, results-driven Sales Executive to identify, acquire, and grow strategic partnerships with high-growth AI startups across the US, with a primary focus on the Bay Area. In this hunter-focused role, you will act as the principal executive driving new business and long-term engagement. You will partner with founders, CTOs, and Heads of AI/Engineering to solve their scaling, deployment, and infrastructure challenges.

Key Responsibilities

 

  • Market Penetration & Hunting: Identify and capture new business opportunities within the fast-paced AI startup ecosystem (Seed to Series D/E).

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  • Strategic Account Planning: Build a robust sales pipeline and execute account strategies that position our services as the primary engineering partner for AI product development and scaling.

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  • Executive Relationship Management: Establish trusted advisory roles with Founders, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering. Lead high-level pitches and business reviews.

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  • Solution Alignment: Partner with our internal AI Architects and Delivery Heads to structure proposals, SOWs, and technical bids that address specific startup needs (e.g., MLOps pipelines, LLM fine-tuning, cloud cost optimization).

Required Qualifications & Background

 

  • Experience: 10–15+ years in professional services sales, account management, or business development within the tech services or consulting sector.

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  • Startup Ecosystem Knowledge: Proven track record of networking, selling, and managing relationships within the venture-backed startup ecosystem in the Bay Area.

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  • Domain Fluency: Strong technical fluency in the current AI/ML stack, including:

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  • AI Engineering: LLMs, Generative AI workflows, MLOps, and vector databases.

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  • Cloud/Platform: Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) or AWS services relevant to AI scaling (GKE, BigQuery, TPGPUs).

 

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  • Dice Id: 10115393
  • Position Id: 9062770
  • Posted 3 days ago
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Soumya Sarita

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