Account Executive, AI Native

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE AI Native is our segment for companies whose core product is AI, from their first model in production through serious scale. You'll be the first person at Baseten to reach many of these founders, and you'll win them early. This is a high-velocity, high-intensity seat. You're running many early-stage opportunities at once, moving fast with founders who move fast, and going deep enough technically to be useful on day one. If you want a front-row seat to the frontier of AI and the ambition to grow into our largest accounts, this is the seat. RESPONSIBILITIES Source, close, and grow new business with early-stage AI companies. You own pipeline generation, not just what's handed to you Run fast, technical sales cycles with founders and early engineering teams, from first call to first production workload Prioritize ruthlessly across a high volume of opportunities and drive each one forward without dropping the thread Pull in applied research and engineering when a deal needs depth, and keep everyone moving on your timeline Bring the field back to product. You see what early AI teams need before the rest of the market does REQUIREMENTS 2+ years of closing sales experience in a SaaS or infrastructure business, with a record of closing Genuine curiosity about open-source models and AI infrastructure. You follow model releases and can hold a real conversation with engineers Strong prioritization and project management ins

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE AI Native is our segment for companies whose core product is AI, from their first model in production through serious scale. You'll be the first person at Baseten to reach many of these founders, and you'll win them early. This is a high-velocity, high-intensity seat. You're running many early-stage opportunities at once, moving fast with founders who move fast, and going deep enough technically to be useful on day one. If you want a front-row seat to the frontier of AI and the ambition to grow into our largest accounts, this is the seat. RESPONSIBILITIES Source, close, and grow new business with early-stage AI companies. You own pipeline generation, not just what's handed to you Run fast, technical sales cycles with founders and early engineering teams, from first call to first production workload Prioritize ruthlessly across a high volume of opportunities and drive each one forward without dropping the thread Pull in applied research and engineering when a deal needs depth, and keep everyone moving on your timeline Bring the field back to product. You see what early AI teams need before the rest of the market does REQUIREMENTS 2+ years of closing sales experience in a SaaS or infrastructure business, with a record of closing Genuine curiosity about open-source models and AI infrastructure. You follow model releases and can hold a real conversation with engineers Strong prioritization and project management ins

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is the Role: Elastic is building a dedicated AI Native Accounts organization focused on partnering with the world's most innovative AI companies. We are seeking an extraordinary Strategic Account Executive to help define how the next generation of AI companies build, scale, and innovate using the Elastic Search AI Platform. This is one of the most strategic individual contributor roles at Elastic. Rather than managing a broad territory, you will own a highly selective portfolio of globally strategic AI-native customers. You will work directly with executive and technical leaders to help solve some of the industry's most complex AI, search, and data challenges while accelerating adoption of the Elastic Search AI Platform. Success in this role extends well beyond revenue attainment. You will serve as a trusted advisor, develop long-term executive relationships, influence product strategy through customer insight, and play a meaningful role in one of Elastic's highest-priority growth initiatives. Location: Texas and West Organizational Scope Each Strategic Account Executive is responsible for a small number of globally strategic AI-native customers. Rather than broad geographic coverage, this organization is intentionally designed around depth of engagement , executive relationships, technical credibility, and long-term strategic partner

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the Role: As a Scale Growth Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll own a portfolio of roughly 6-8 of our most strategic and fastest-scaling AI-native startup customers, driving expansion and retention by helping them harness the transformative potential of safe, frontier AI. These are companies that build on Anthropic's models and are now scaling quickly — your job is to grow with them. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to expand revenue across complex, multi-stakeholder accounts while becoming a trusted strategic advisor to founders and executive teams, helping them expand their AI capabilities and unlock new use cases. Working closely with GTM, Applied AI, product, and marketing teams, you'll identify expansion opportunities while ensuring our customers get maximum value from Anthropic's solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong commercial acumen with executive relationship management skills, focusing on growing large accounts through strategic expansion while maintaining high retention rates in a competitive market. By driving expanded deployment of Anthropic's products at the companies defining what AI-native looks like, you will help them scale their AI capabilities while advancing its safe and ethical development. Responsibilities: Drive revenue growth through strategic account expansion and renewals across a focused portfolio (~6-8) of Anthropic's largest AI-native startup customers. Own the full sales cycle for upsell and renewal opportunities while maintaining strong retention rates Build and maintain trusted relationships with founders, board members, and executive stakeholders, as well as the

About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The AI team is focused on one of Stripe’s most strategic growth areas: enabling the monetization and scaling of AI-native and AI-enabled businesses. We’re in a unique position – partnering with the world’s most ambitious AI companies (the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, etc) building on the frontier of artificial intelligence -- across infrastructure, foundation models, agents, and applications -- to help them grow and commercialize globally using Stripe’s full financial stack. As part of Stripe’s GTM / Sales organization, this team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape Stripe’s AI GTM strategy and ensure that the world’s leading AI companies -- from early-stage innovators to the largest public players -- choose Stripe as their monetization platform. What you’ll do Work with existing Stripe customers in the AI Industry to develop and execute long-term sales strategies to expand Stripe’s revenue Own the full sales cycle, from business case development, to deal structuring and negotiating, to close Develop account plans and cross sell into your list of strategic AI customers, driving growth through expansion and new revenue streams Drive deal strategy and commercial negotiations for large, complex renewals Develop relationships with executive stakeholders within your book of business, deeply understanding problems they are solving and helping drive to solutions Be responsible for account mapping and coordinating ef

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The AI GTM team is focused on one of Stripe's most strategic growth opportunities: enabling AI-native and AI-enabled businesses to scale on Stripe. We're in a unique position – partnering with the world's most ambitious AI companies (the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA) building on the frontier of artificial intelligence – across infrastructure, foundation models, agents, and applications – to grow globally with the help of Stripe's financial infrastructure. As part of Stripe's GTM organization, this team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape Stripe's AI GTM strategy and ensure that the world's leading AI companies – from early-stage innovators to the largest public players – choose to build with Stripe. What you'll do Work collaboratively with one of Stripe’s most strategic customers to realize their business goals. Our customers in the AI Industry move fast, you’ll work alongside your customer to develop and execute a multi-year partnership strategy that accelerates their ambitions with Stripe as a critical partner. This is a role that will require you to be an active participant in Stripe’s product strategy across the company, acting as a proxy for your customer within the walls of Stripe. You will interact with executives internally and externally to ensure your customer’s needs are well understood and prioritized. You will: Own full commercial sales cycles and partnership opportuni