Specific Intelligence for Your Business. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lux.
About the role
As the founding strategic account executive, you'll win new business and drive revenue for Applied Compute across the F500. You'll help enterprises understand what Specific Intelligence looks like inside their organization. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to become a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI and scale into a multi-workstream partnership over time.
What they're looking for
- 3-5 years of enterprise sales experience at an AI or AI-adjacent company, with a track record of personally closing large ACV deals with technical buyers
- A consultative, solutions-oriented approach to selling. You understand multifaceted technical requirements and tailor your narrative to each account rather than running a standard demo
- Intellectual curiosity about AI/ML. You want to understand how the technology actually works, and you can hold your own in a room full of engineers after a briefing
- You have opinions about product and you naturally feed signal back to the product team
- A strategic sense for where budget lives and how deals get structured
More about this role
As the founding strategic account executive, you'll win new business and drive revenue for Applied Compute across the F500. You'll help enterprises understand what Specific Intelligence looks like inside their organization. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to become a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI and scale into a multi-workstream partnership over time. In collaboration with applied AI and platform engineers, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and platform positioning to ensure specific value across each client.
Win new business and drive revenue for Applied Compute. Find the right entry points at prospective customers, educate them on what Specific Intelligence is and why it's different, and guide them from first conversation through close. You'll own the full sales cycle end-to-end
Maintain client partnerships over time to grow engagements into multi-workflow partnerships
Sell into senior technical buyers (CTOs, Heads of AI/ML, VP Engineering) with confidence and credibility
Spearhead market expansion by identifying new customer segments, industries, and use cases. Collaborate cross-functionally...
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