About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Account Executive to own deals end-to-end, build relationships with technical buyers, and contribute to the growth of a fast-moving AI company. This full-cycle sales role involves carrying quota, closing enterprise and scale-up deals, and shaping the commercial strategy. You will collaborate with leadership, engage with technical professionals, and help establish a repeatable go-to-market engine. This position is ideal for a self-starter passionate about technical sales and AI infrastructure, offering significant impact and ownership at a Series A company.
Responsibilities
- Build and close a pipeline of scale-up and high-growth startup accounts.
- Own deals from first contact through signed contract, including discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation, and close.
- Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CTOs, ML leads, and infrastructure decision-makers.
- Collaborate with the CRO to refine acquisition and expansion playbooks.
- Partner with BDR and DevRel on pipeline generation.
- Maintain CRM rigor and deliver accurate forecasting and pipeline reporting.
- Represent Featherless at industry events and conferences.
- Run full-cycle sales across mid-market and enterprise segments.
- Lead discovery and technical demo calls tailored to each buyer's needs.
- Develop custom proposals and business cases.
- Negotiate and close complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
- Expand revenue within existing accounts by identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
- Utilize AI tools for research, outreach personalization, and workflow efficiency.
- Maintain CRM hygiene in HubSpot, ensuring accurate activity logging and pipeline stages.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to share field feedback.
- Mentor BDRs and help define pipeline quality standards.
Requirements
- 3–6 years in a closing role in Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps, or AI/developer tooling.
- Proven track record closing deals with technical buyers (developers, ML engineers, CTOs).
- Comfortable navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – concise, credible, technically literate.
- Entrepreneurial and self-driven; ability to build processes independently.
- Disciplined forecaster with clean CRM habits and a data-driven approach.
- Familiarity with HubSpot, Clay, Claude/ChatGPT or equivalent tools.
Skills
- Technical Sales
- Cloud Infrastructure
- MLOps
- AI/Developer Tooling
- Enterprise Sales
- CRM Management
- Forecasting
- Pipeline Management
- Communication (Written and Verbal)
- Relationship Building
- Negotiation
- AI Tools Utilization
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior-level
Benefits
- Competitive base + commission
About the Company
- Featherless.ai is building the world's most reliable open-model inference platform, providing a serverless foundation for deploying and scaling AI without infrastructure overhead.
- The company is backed by notable investors including AMD, Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0 Residency, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures.
- Featherless.ai is a well-funded team of researchers and engineers focused on democratizing AI through performance and accessibility.
- Their cloud offers immediate access to over 40,000 open-source AI models and cutting-edge research for efficiency, reliability, and model optimization.
