About the Role
Firmus is executing one of the most ambitious AI infrastructure build-outs in the world, aiming to deploy approximately 2 million GPUs by 2028. The AI Native Account Lead will manage a portfolio of high-growth AI-native GPU capacity customers, driving new capacity commitments, growing existing accounts, and ensuring a best-in-class customer experience. This role involves commercial ownership, account management, capacity commercialization, and cross-functional delivery orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end account management for a portfolio of AI-native GPU capacity customers, acting as the primary commercial point of contact.
- Translate customer AI compute roadmaps into structured GPU capacity commitments, working closely with capacity planning and network engineering teams.
- Lead deal structuring and negotiation for contracts from single-digit millions to tens of millions of dollars, including pricing, terms, delivery milestones, and expansion rights.
- Run a regular executive and technical cadence with each account — keeping commitments, performance, and escalations visible to both the customer and Firmus leadership.
- Coordinate with the shared coverage pod — Solution Architecture, Customer Success, Technical Program Management, and Engineering — to ensure customer commitments are met on schedule and risks are surfaced early.
- Own the customer feedback loop into Firmus engineering — capturing technical issues, capacity requirements, and roadmap requests and translating them into clear input for engineering and product priorities.
- Identify and execute account growth opportunities as customer compute needs scale, including helping accounts graduate toward Gigascale, Strategic Account-led coverage.
- Maintain clear reporting on account health, pipeline, capacity utilisation, and risk to the Head of AI Natives.
Requirements
- 5+ years in strategic account management, enterprise/complex sales, or commercial leadership in cloud infrastructure, data centre, semiconductor, or AI compute markets.
- Direct experience selling, negotiating, or managing GPU/compute capacity contracts, ideally with a hyperscaler, neocloud, or AI infrastructure background.
- Comfort working with founder-led, fast-moving customers, including experience managing multiple concurrent accounts.
- Strong technical fluency in GPU infrastructure, able to speak credibly to customers on capacity planning, deployment timelines, networking architecture, and power and data centre constraints.
- Track record of operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous, high-growth environments.
- Executive presence — able to represent Firmus credibly with founders and technical leaders at AI-native companies.
- Ownership and accountability — acts as the accountable owner for account outcomes, from commercial terms through delivery execution.
- Commercial rigour — structures and negotiates contracts efficiently, at speed, while protecting long-term account health.
- Cross-functional orchestration — works effectively across capacity planning, delivery, finance and legal to keep commitments on track.
- Technical fluency — speaks credibly to GPU capacity, deployment timelines and infrastructure constraints without needing to be the solution architect.
- Portfolio management — juggles multiple fast-moving accounts without losing sight of the details that matter to each.
Skills
- Strategic account management
- Enterprise/complex sales
- Commercial leadership
- Cloud infrastructure
- Data centre
- Semiconductor
- AI compute markets
- GPU/compute capacity contracts
- Hyperscaler
- Neocloud
- AI infrastructure
- Founder-led customer management
- Concurrent account management
- GPU infrastructure technical fluency
- Capacity planning
- Deployment timelines
- Networking architecture
- Power and data centre constraints
- Autonomy
- Ambiguous environments
- High-growth environments
- Executive presence
- Commercial rigour
- Cross-functional orchestration
- Portfolio management
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Individual Contributor
About the Company
- Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific.
- Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability.
- At Firmus, we are unique in our approach. We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure – the AI Factory.
- Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction.
- For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.
- Our large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, is purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale to customers.
- It empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings.
- With an ever-growing suite of services and applications, we are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.
Equal Opportunity
- At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.
- Join us in our mission to revolutionize the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.
