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Founding Account Executive (AI Cloud) at Featherless AI

Founding Account Executive (AI Cloud)

Featherless AI · CA

2 weeks ago

Founding Account Executive (AI Cloud)

Featherless AI · CA

16 days ago
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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.