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Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. After years of building an innovative POS platform for restaurateurs, Toast is expanding its offerings into other food and beverage concepts such as convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops. This role will require a founder’s mindset as we grow Toast’s presence in this new vertical with a new offering: the Toast Retail platform. As a Retail Business Development Representative (BDR), you will be part of a founding team that is transforming the way Retailers operate. You will serve as the critical first step in our sales pipeline, responsible for building and qualifying the opportunities that drive our growth. A day in the life (Responsibilities) Generate lists of prospective convenience stores, grocery stores, bottle shops, and other retailers to target. Execute high-volume outreach to a mix of prospective businesses to determine mutual fit. Complete 80 activities daily (cold calls). Conduct qualification calls to develop an understanding of the prospect’s needs and determine how they can benefit from leveraging our Retail solution. Schedule meetings with qualified prospects for Account Executives, ensuring a seamless handoff and a smooth sales process. Partner with Account Executives on strategy, talk tracks, and feedback. Leverage Salesforce (our CRM) to manage all sales activities. Understand the competitive landscape and determine how to best position Toast in the market. What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) Career Progression: Must be driven by a long-term goal of becoming a full-cycle Account Executive (AE) and working in a commissioned closing role. Proven Drive and Refusal to Fail: Possesses the self-discipline and sustained effort necessary to achieve ambitious daily activity goals and recover quickly from rejection.

Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here). Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000 customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started. Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit. AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us as a Sales Development Representative to power Qonto's inbound growth in Germany. As Qonto's first SDR for Germany, you will own inbound lead qualification and demo booking for our Small Business segment, freeing our Account Executives to focus on closing and onboarding, and you will build the playbook that shapes how this function scales across our markets. This is a founding role. You will not inherit a process, you will define it. ➡️ What you’ll do Be the first point of contact for every inbound lead, qualifying fast and turning conversations into booked demos for our Account Executives Build real rapport with German decision-makers (CEOs, CFOs) from the very first call, understanding their business before handing them off to the right AE Sustain a h

Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here). Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,600+ Qontoers serving over 600,000+ customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started. Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit. AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us as a Sales Development Representative to power Qonto's inbound growth in France. As Qonto's first SDR, you will own inbound lead qualification and demo booking for our Small Business segment, freeing our Account Executives to focus on closing and onboarding, and you will build the playbook that shapes how this function scales across our markets. This is a founding role. You will not inherit a process, you will define it. 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As an SDR at Qonto, you will Be the first point of contact for every inbound lead, qualifying fast and turning conversations into booked demos for our Account Executives Build real rapport with French decision-makers (CEOs, CFOs) from the very first call, understanding their business before handing them off to the right A

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 We're hiring a Sales Manager to help build and lead our founding team of Strategic Account Executives in London. Strategic at Baseten means the fastest-growing AI-native companies in the world, teams scaling from first inference call to billions of tokens in months. This is our fastest-growing segment, and Europe is where we're planting the flag next. You'll help recruit the first reps, run deals alongside them while the team ramps, and contribute to the playbook for how Baseten wins in Europe. It's a founding seat with real influence on how we build here, close to our founders and GTM leadership. RESPONSIBILITIES Recruit, hire, and ramp the founding team of Strategic AEs in London. This is your highest-leverage work in year one Coach reps to consistently exceed pipeline and revenue goals, with a hands-on approach through complex technical deals Partner on shaping and executing go-to-market strategy for the region Operate as a player-coach early on, carrying deals yourself while the team builds Stay deep on the product and the open-source model landscape so your reps can hold their own with founders and engineering leaders Work with Marketing, Product, and Engineering to turn European customer needs into roadmap input Build a culture of accountability, learning, and collaboration from the first hire forward REQUIREMENTS 6+ years of closing experience, with 2+ years managing high-performing teams Proven success i

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 We're hiring a Sales Manager to help build and lead our founding team of Enterprise Account Executives in London. Enterprise at Baseten means the companies with the most to gain from AI and the most complexity in getting there: large digital natives running products at massive scale, and category leaders in software, financial services, healthcare, and beyond. They have the data, the distribution, and the budget. Most are still deciding what to build, what to run themselves, and what it should cost. You'll help recruit the first reps, run deals alongside them while the team ramps, and contribute to the playbook for how Baseten wins European enterprises. It's a founding seat with real influence on how we build here, close to our founders and GTM leadership. RESPONSIBILITIES Recruit, hire, and ramp the founding team of Enterprise AEs in London. This is your highest-leverage work in year one Coach reps through long, multi-stakeholder cycles: multithreading across buying committees, navigating security and procurement, and closing seven- and eight-figure deals Raise the bar on consultative selling. Your reps should be advising customers on AI strategy, not just running a product evaluation Partner on shaping and executing go-to-market strategy for the region, including which verticals to attack first Operate as a player-coach early on, carrying deals yourself while the team builds Stay deep enough on the product to

CSQ327R60 About the Team The FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering) team is a new, strategic initiative sponsored from the CEO and Founders down. Our mission is to win C-suite-sponsored, high-value AI opportunities by selling and delivering outcomes , not just a platform. You will be part of the founding team, embedded with our most strategic customers from the very first sales call, all the way through to a production-ready solution. You will be the "product manager" for the customer's problem, responsible for the "why" and "what," while our FDEs (Engineers) will be your partners responsible for the "how." Role Description As a Deployment Strategist (DS), you are the critical bridge between a customer's multi-million dollar business problem and Databricks' technical solution. You are a "product manager for the field," owning the entire non-technical lifecycle of an FDE engagement. You will partner with our Account Executives to build C-suite trust, perform deep discovery to map the customer's political and technical landscape, and, most importantly, scope the value . You will define the Minimum Viable Product for a pilot, write the PRD that guides the engineering team, and manage the project to a successful landing. This role requires a rare mix of C-suite gravitas, deep product-style thinking, and a hands-on, "get it done" execution mindset. What You’ll Do C-Suite Scoping & Value Definition: Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery, map the customer's organization, quantify the business value ($10M+ problems), and define the pilot (MVP, success criteria, timeline). End-to-End Product Ownership: Act as the "CEO" of the project by authoring the PRD, prioritizing the engineering backlog, relentlessly managing scope, and acting as the primary hands-on QA tester. Agile Project Execution & Delivery: Drive the FDE build team via an agile process, manage all stakeholder communications from the C-suite to individual engineers, and act as the "escalation manager" to

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 Solutions Architect on the Startups Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will win the trust of founders and engineers by being an exceptional technical partner, helping startups successfully build on the Claude Developer Platform as they grow from early product to scale. You'll combine deep technical expertise with a builder-first mindset to help startups architect innovative LLM solutions, win technical evaluations, and get the most out of Claude. Working closely with Account Executives and the broader Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide startups from initial technical discovery through successful deployment and beyond. You'll leverage your expertise to help founders understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems. Responsibilities: Partner with Account Executives to deeply understand startup requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the Claude adoption journey from initial evaluation through deployment and expansion Win technical evaluations that demonstrate why Claude is the best foundation for what startups are building, helping them develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases Build technical credibility with founders, founding engineers, and startup engineering teams by speaking their language, understanding their build patterns, and guiding technical architecture decisions Gather insights on how startups are building with Claude, identify emerging use cases and deployment patterns, and deliver feedback to Product and En

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 an Applied AI Architect on the Startups team at Anthropic, you will win the trust of founders and engineers by being an exceptional technical partner, helping startups successfully build on the Claude Developer Platform as they grow from early product to scale. You'll combine deep technical expertise with a builder-first mindset to help startups architect innovative LLM solutions, win technical evaluations, and get the most out of Claude. Working closely with Account Executives and the broader Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide startups from initial technical discovery through successful deployment and beyond. You'll leverage your expertise to help founders understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems. Responsibilities: Partner with Account Executives to deeply understand startup requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the Claude adoption journey from initial evaluation through deployment and expansion Win technical evaluations that demonstrate why Claude is the best foundation for what startups are building, helping them develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases Build technical credibility with founders, founding engineers, and startup engineering teams by speaking their language, understanding their build patterns, and guiding technical architecture decisions Gather insights on how startups are building with Claude, identify emerging use cases and deployment patterns, and deliver feedback to Product and Engineering

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As our founding Channel Manager for the French market, you’ll manage Vanta channel partnerships across the region, driving our partners to sell and deploy Vanta more broadly. This role sits within Vanta’s Partnerships team, where you will have a direct role in bringing Vanta’s vision of securing every technology company through channel partners. You will help us ensure that our partners always receive quality guidance and enablement as they go-to-market with Vanta. This role will be based from either our Dublin or London office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. What you’ll do as a Channel Manager for the French market at Vanta: Drive net new pipeline and ARR for the French market via a book of channel partners (service and sales oriented) Enable and build relationships with existing Vanta partners Direct a one-to-many approach to developing business within the region Build one-to-one relationships with key partners across France Manage your pipeline effectively, working alongside Account Executives in the business to close deals How to be successful in this role: 4+ years of channel partner experience working within software/SaaS Fluency in written and spoken English and French required Must be able to work 3 days per week in our Dublin or London offices with 2 days at home Excellent cross-functional team player that can execute and can contribute to strategy Highly driven self-starter that thrives in a dynamic environment Customer focused approach Experience in operations, with an ability to help create and organize business processes and systems Understan

What we're building Mutiny is the self-improving AI infrastructure for GTM teams to execute faster and close more revenue. Our ambition is to do for revenue velocity what Cursor and Claude Code did for engineering velocity. With Mutiny, everyone in sales and marketing gets a bench of GTM athletes that handle any work across their revenue motion and learn from what's actually moved their deals. In April we re-launched the product as an agent-first platform. Anthropic showcased us as a leader in AI GTM. MRR is growing more than 70% month-over-month, with customers like Uber, Rippling, and Snowflake. We're backed by Sequoia, YC, and Insight, and we're building a generational company. The opportunity Most sales leaders inherit a playbook. You'll write one. As a founding first sales manager, you'll partner with the founders, own the number end-to-end from first conversation to expansion, and use AI and our own product to build a team of full-stack sellers that outsells teams 5x their size. What works for our team becomes what works for every sales team running on Mutiny. The calls you make on hiring, motion, and product feedback will shape the company well beyond the sales org. This role is in person in New York City, five days a week. What you'll own Revenue. Sales-led revenue, end-to-end. Pipeline, conversion, ARR, retention, and expansion. The number is yours. PLG to enterprise. Define qualification, build the enterprise pipeline, and turn self-serve signups at companies like Rippling, Uber, Snowflake, Zendesk, and Gusto into seven-figure deals. Outbound. Generate net new meetings with the hottest AI companies and enterprises in the market. Build the motion, run it yourself first, then teach it. The team. Hire, coach, and develop a team of Account Executives into top performers. The ceiling on revenue is the ceiling on the team you build. The playbook. Write the sales motion that becomes the default for every team running on Mutiny. What works here ships to thousands

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As our founding Channel Manager for the French market, you’ll manage Vanta channel partnerships across the region, driving our partners to sell and deploy Vanta more broadly. This role sits within Vanta’s Partnerships team, where you will have a direct role in bringing Vanta’s vision of securing every technology company through channel partners. You will help us ensure that our partners always receive quality guidance and enablement as they go-to-market with Vanta. This role will be based from either our Dublin or London office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. What you’ll do as a Channel Manager for the French market at Vanta: Drive net new pipeline and ARR for the French market via a book of channel partners (service and sales oriented) Enable and build relationships with existing Vanta partners Direct a one-to-many approach to developing business within the region Build one-to-one relationships with key partners across France Manage your pipeline effectively, working alongside Account Executives in the business to close deals How to be successful in this role: 4+ years of channel partner experience working within software/SaaS Fluency in written and spoken English and French required Must be able to work 3 days per week in our Dublin or London offices with 2 days at home Excellent cross-functional team player that can execute and can contribute to strategy Highly driven self-starter that thrives in a dynamic environment Customer focused approach Experience in operations, with an ability to help create and organize business processes and systems Understan

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As one of our founding Channel Managers for the DACH region, you’ll manage Vanta channel partnerships across the region, driving our VAR and resell partners to deploy Vanta more broadly. This role sits within Vanta’s Partnerships team, where you will have a direct role in bringing Vanta’s vision of securing every technology company through channel partners. You will help us ensure that our partners always receive quality guidance and enablement as they go-to-market with Vanta. This role will be based from our London or Dublin office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. What you’ll do as a founding Channel Manager for the DACH region at Vanta: Drive net new pipeline and ARR for the DACH region via a book of channel partners, specifically resellers and VARs Enable and build relationships with existing Vanta partners Direct a one-to-many approach to developing business within the region Build one-to-one relationships with key partners across DACH Manage your pipeline effectively, working alongside Account Executives in the business to close deals How to be successful in this role: 4+ years of channel partner experience working within software/SaaS Must be able to work 3 days per week in our London or Dublin office with 2 days at home Be fluent in German and English, with strong communication skills in both languages Excellent cross-functional team player that can execute and can contribute to strategy Highly driven self-starter that thrives in a dynamic environment Customer focused approach Experience in operations, with an ability to help create and organize bus

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. We’re hiring Solutions Engineers to build Synthesia’s presales function in DACH. This is a founding role: you’ll be one of the first SEs, shaping the playbook, tooling and best practices as we scale, not following an established model. If you’re someone who is excited by building whilst scaling, we’d love to hear from you. As a Solutions Engineer at Synthesia, you will partner with Account Executives, Customer Success and Product Marketing to run discovery, deliver demos, scope POCs and design the technical solution for each deal. You will be a trusted advisor focused on the value customers get from Synthesia, and you’ll take what you learn in the field back to Product. This is an incredible opportunity to join us as we become a multi-product company for the first time, and continue to scale across DACH. Sales Cycle Ownership & AE Partnership Co-plan and support discovery calls with your AE to understand customer requirements, technical environment, and business challenges. Deliver demonstrations that speak to customer problems and tell a credible story of why Synthesia is the right solution. Identify technical objections and integration questions as they come up, working with your AE and the broader ecosyst

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. We’re hiring Senior Solutions Engineers to build Synthesia’s presales function in DACH. This is a founding role: you’ll be one of the first SEs, shaping the playbook, tooling and best practices as we scale, not following an established model. If you’re someone who is excited by building whilst scaling, we’d love to hear from you. As a Solutions Engineer at Synthesia, you will partner with Account Executives, Customer Success and Product Marketing to run discovery, deliver demos, scope POCs and design the technical solution for each deal. You will be a trusted advisor focused on the value customers get from Synthesia, and you’ll take what you learn in the field back to Product. This is an incredible opportunity to join us as we become a multi-product company for the first time, and continue to scale across DACH. Sales Cycle Ownership Coplan and execute discovery calls to understand customer requirements, their technical environment, and current business challenges. Design and deliver compelling demonstrations that solve customer problems, quantify the value of solving those problems, and tell a clear, credible story of how Synthesia solves them better than anything else. Understand and overcome technical objectio

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. We’re hiring a Senior Solutions Engineer to build Synthesia’s presales function in France and Southern EMEA. This is a founding role: you’ll be one of the first SEs, shaping the playbook, tooling and best practices as we scale, not following an established model. As a Solutions Engineer at Synthesia, you will partner with Account Executives, Customer Success and Product Marketing to run discovery, deliver demos, scope POCs and design the technical solution for each deal. You will be a trusted advisor focused on the value customers get from Synthesia, and you’ll take what you learn in the field back to Product. This is an incredible opportunity to join us as we become a multi-product company for the first time, and continue to scale across France and Southern EMEA. If you’re someone who is excited and driven by building whilst scaling, we’d love to hear from you. Sales Cycle Ownership Coplan and execute discovery calls to understand customer requirements, their technical environment, and current business challenges. Design and deliver compelling demonstrations that solve customer problems, quantify the value of solving those problems, and tell a clear, credible story of how Synthesia solves them better than anyth