Backed by Index.
About the role
Establish Ankar as a category leader in AI for innovation creation and protection in the US
What they're looking for
- This is a founding AE role. We are not hiring traditional enterprise reps, we are hiring high-agency, revenue-obsessed hunters who can build and close from zero
- Proven 0→1 closer : Demonstrated track record of independently generating pipeline, running an enterprise sales motion and closing multiple 6-figure entreprise deals. You don’t wait for leads, you create and convert them
- End-to-end ownership : Able to run the full sales cycle autonomously, from first touch to close, while leveraging founders for strategic moments (exec alignment, complex negotiations)
- Pipeline builder, not pipeline manager : Comfortable operating without brand pull or established playbooks. You know how to break into accounts, multi-thread, and create momentum from scratch
- Executive presence : Credible with C-level stakeholders. You can navigate complex organizations, build trust quickly, and drive decisions across multiple stakeholders
- Thrives in ambiguity : Operates effectively in an unstructured, fast-moving environment. You don’t need a playbook, you help build it
More about this role
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work , sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that. Ankar is building the AI operating system for innovation, reinventing how companies generate and protect their inventions. Our platform orchestrates how ideas become defensible IP with a suite of AI modules such as patent drafting, office action response, and infringement detection.We’re at an inflection point:
We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.
We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 companies such as L’Oréal and global law firms such as Vorys
Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation...
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