Founding Account Executive, AI Cloud

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About the role

  • Founding Account Executive selling Featherless.ai’s open-model AI inference cloud. Owning technical enterprise sales, pipeline development, and deal closure.

Responsibilities

  • Build and close a pipeline of scale-up and high-growth startup accounts
  • Own deals from first contact through signed contract, including discovery, demos, proposals, negotiation, and closing
  • Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CTOs, ML leads, and infrastructure decision-makers
  • Work 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 to generate and advance deals
  • Run full-cycle sales across mid-market and enterprise segments
  • Lead discovery and technical demo calls tailored to each buyer’s stack and use case
  • Develop custom proposals and business cases connecting model inference needs to Featherless capabilities
  • Negotiate and close complex, multi-stakeholder deals
  • Expand revenue within existing accounts through upsell and cross-sell opportunities
  • Use AI tools to automate research, outreach personalization, and workflow efficiency
  • Maintain clean CRM hygiene in HubSpot
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to share field feedback
  • Mentor BDRs and help define high-quality pipeline

Requirements

  • 3–6 years in a closing role in Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps, or AI/developer tooling
  • Proven track record closing deals with technical buyers, including developers, ML engineers, and CTOs
  • Comfortable navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Concise, credible, and technically literate
  • Entrepreneurial and self-driven
  • Ability to build processes independently
  • Disciplined forecasting and clean CRM habits
  • Data-driven approach to pipeline management
  • Familiarity with HubSpot, Clay, Claude/ChatGPT, or equivalent tools
  • Legally authorized to work in the job’s required location without employer visa sponsorship

Benefits

  • Competitive base + commission
  • Direct work with the CRO
  • Opportunity to build out the AE function at a fast-growing AI company
  • Small, high-performing team
  • Work on making open-weight AI accessible

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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