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Founding GTM / Head of Sales

The Token Company · San Francisco · On-site

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About The Token Company

Cut OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini API costs with accuracy held flat — or take a smaller cut and lift accuracy by several points instead. The bear-2 prompt compression API strips low-signal tokens from your inputs before they hit the LLM. Works with GPT,... Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This role is eligible for revenue share and significant equity. We also provide housing, food, laundry and cleaning in SF, and a position to build the team around you with our resources.

More about this role

The Token Company (YC W26, HF0 S26) is a seed stage startup in San Francisco, CA, and has raised ~$12M from First Round Capital, NEA, YC and SV Angel along with investors such as founders of Dropbox, Slack, Supercell and Huggingface and key people from OpenAI, xAI and DoorDash.

The Token Company trains machine learning models to compress raw LLM inputs before they are passed to the expensive LLMs. Our models are able to recognize parts of inputs that are unimportant, reducing inference costs for scale-ups and enterprises that integrate LLMs into their products. The team is 5 people with a research and product focus.

We are looking for a founding GTM to lead the whole pipeline from outbound to taking the calls and working deals through the funnel. The ideal candidate fits our culture and is:

A quick learner: grasping the product and being able to explain it is important

Experienced in taking calls and managing the sales pipeline

Have early stage GTM experience: have been involved in setting up full sales funnel motion from scratch previously at a startup or a scale-up

This role is eligible for revenue share and significant equity. We also provide housing, food, laundry and cleaning...

Read the full posting on The Token Company's site ↗

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