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AdsGency AI in San Francisco seeks a Director of Sales / Founding Sales Lead to turn early commercial traction into a repeatable revenue engine. This is a founding leadership role with hands-on duties in discovery, demos, negotiations, and closing while simultaneously building the sales organization.
You will design the playbook, ICPs, messaging, pricing, and qualification criteria; establish a BDR team, CRM discipline, and forecasting.
Company: AdsGency AI
Location: Onsite — San Francisco
Employment Type: Full-Time
Relocation to San Francisco Required
Applicants must be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.
We’re AdsGency AI — an AI-native company building a multi-agent operating system for digital advertising.
Our platform uses AI agents to help advertisers plan, launch, optimize, and analyze campaigns across Google, Meta, TikTok, and other major advertising channels.
We are building toward a future where increasingly autonomous AI systems can manage the complexity of performance marketing at scale.
AdsGency has already signed meaningful enterprise customers and generated the majority of its commercial traction organically, with limited reliance on paid acquisition.
We are now looking for a Director of Sales / Founding Sales Lead to turn that early commercial traction into a repeatable, scalable sales organization.
This is effectively a founding sales leadership role and a player-coach position.
This is also a player-coach role.
You will personally prospect, run discovery, demo the product, develop account strategies, negotiate, and close business while simultaneously building the systems, processes, team, and sales playbook that allow AdsGency to scale beyond founder-led sales.
You will work directly with the Founder & CEO and initially own much of the day-to-day sales organization.
This is not a role for someone who wants to inherit a mature sales team, established territories, a finished playbook, and predictable inbound pipeline.
You will help build those things.
Your objective is straightforward:
Turn existing commercial demand into a measurable, repeatable, and scalable revenue engine.
Own the sales process from qualified opportunity through closed-won for enterprise and strategic accounts.
Personally run discovery, product demonstrations, stakeholder management, proposals, pricing discussions, negotiations, procurement, and closing.
Translate what is currently working in founder-led sales into a repeatable commercial process.
Define and continuously improve:
The goal is to create a system that other salespeople can execute successfully without depending on the founder for every opportunity.
Help hire, onboard, coach, and manage AdsGency’s Founding BDR team.
Establish clear expectations around prospecting quality, qualified meetings, sales-accepted opportunities, pipeline creation, follow-up discipline, and CRM accuracy.
Ensure BDR activity translates into real pipeline rather than vanity meeting volume.
Partner with BDRs, marketing, partnerships, customer success, and leadership to create qualified pipeline across outbound, inbound, referrals, strategic relationships, and other channels.
Continuously evaluate which industries, customer segments, personas, messages, and acquisition channels generate the highest-quality opportunities.
Develop account strategies for high-value opportunities involving multiple stakeholders, technical requirements, security reviews, procurement, legal review, integrations, and longer sales cycles.
Know when an opportunity requires founder involvement and when it should be closed independently.
Build and maintain disciplined CRM and pipeline-management practices.
Own:
Leadership should be able to understand the state of the sales organization from the system of record without manually reconstructing pipeline.
Identify where opportunities stall or drop throughout the sales funnel.
Analyze:
Lead → Qualified Meeting → Sales-Accepted Opportunity → Proposal → Negotiation → Closed Won
Develop and execute improvements based on actual conversion data.
Ensure clean handoffs from sales to onboarding and Customer Success.
Set appropriate expectations during the sales process and ensure that customer requirements, use cases, commitments, stakeholders, and success criteria are documented before handoff.
Work with Customer Success to identify expansion and renewal opportunities.
Develop a deep understanding of why customers buy, why they do not buy, what alternatives they evaluate, which product capabilities matter most, and which objections repeatedly appear.
Translate those insights into actionable feedback for product, engineering, marketing, pricing, and company strategy.
As the sales motion becomes repeatable, help determine when and where additional BDRs, Account Executives, sales operations, partnerships, and sales leadership should be added.
You will have the opportunity to build the organization you eventually lead.
This role will be evaluated primarily on revenue outcomes and the quality of the sales system you build, not simply activity volume.
Key metrics may include:
A major measure of success will be whether AdsGency can increasingly close business through a repeatable sales organization rather than requiring the founder to personally drive every deal.
You will likely do well at AdsGency if your instinct is:
“Give me the product, customers, and what has worked so far. I’ll turn it into a sales system.”
You will probably not enjoy this role if you require:
We need someone who is equally comfortable closing a strategic customer on Tuesday, reviewing BDR pipeline on Wednesday, fixing qualification criteria on Thursday, and rebuilding the forecast on Friday.