Business Development Representative (AI Cloud)

Tech Sales Jobs; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 65,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Executive collaboration

Open AI ecosystem network

Small high-performing team

Job summary

Featherless.ai is seeking a founding Business Development Rep for the US/CA GTM team. This role blends technical acumen with entrepreneurial drive, engaging with developers, researchers, and AI startups. You’ll build pipelines, manage inquiries, and orchestrate multi-channel outreach to accelerate growth.

You’ll work remotely across the US and Canada, collaborating with executives on strategic partnerships and go-to-market initiatives while expanding a rapidly growing open-model AI ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years experience in Sales, Developer Relations, or Entrepreneurship.
• Comfortable engaging technical audiences (developers, founders, researchers).
• AI power user.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English — concise, credible, human.
• Entrepreneurial and self-driven — you operate independently and get things done.

Responsibilities

• Build & qualify pipeline across enterprises and AI startups.
• Manage inbound requests through chat and email.
• Manage outreach sequences and automations (HubSpot, Clay, Reply.io, n8n).
• Re-engage existing sign-ups and subscribers; identify high-value users.
• Track CRM, pipeline metrics, and weekly reporting.
• Attend events to generate pipeline and establish key relationships.

Skills

Sales

Developer Relations

Entrepreneurship

Tools

HubSpot

Clay

Reply.io

n8n

Job description

Founding Business Development Rep (AI Cloud US/CA)

Department: Go-to-market

Location: Remote (US & Canada), Atlanta, Los Angeles, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Ottawa, New York City, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Ashburn, San Francisco Office, Austin, Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Charlotte, Seattle, Dallas-Fort Worth, Fairfax, Boston, Houston, Raleigh, Washington, Chicago, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Denver, Vancouver

Employment Type: FullTime

About Featherless

Featherless.ai is building the world’s most reliable open-model inference platform — a serverless foundation for deploying and scaling AI without infrastructure overhead.

Backed by AMD, Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0 Residency, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures, we’re a well‑funded team of researchers and engineers on a mission to democratize AI through performance and accessibility.

Our cloud provides instant access to 40,000+ open-source AI models and the research innovations powering next-generation efficiency, reliability, and model optimization.

About the Role

We’re looking for a founding member of the US/CA GTM team — someone both technical and entrepreneurial that thrives at the intersection of AI, communication, and execution.

This is not a traditional sales role. You’re expected to be fluent in AI and be able to hold your own in conversations with model creators, AI startups, enterprises, and developers exploring open-model deployment.

If you're a charismatic developer looking to expand into sales or a young entrepreneur that’s developed technical skills we want to speak to you.

What You’ll Own Immediately

• Build & qualify pipeline across enterprises and AI startups

• Manage inbound requests through chat and email

• Manage outreach sequences and automations (HubSpot, Clay, Reply.io, n8n)

• Re-engage existing sign-ups and subscribers; identify high-value users

• Track CRM, pipeline metrics, and weekly reporting

• Attend events to generate pipeline and establish key relationships

What You Bring

• Combined 1-2 years experience in Sales, Developer Relations, or Entrepreneurship

• Comfortable engaging technical audiences (developers, founders, researchers)

• AI power user

• Excellent written and verbal communication in english — concise, credible, human

• Entrepreneurial and self-driven — you operate independently and get things done

Why Featherless

• Work directly with exec on high-impact partnerships and GTM strategy

• Build your network across one of the fastest-growing open AI ecosystems

• Be part of a small, high-performing team making open weight AI accessible to everyone