Enterprise Account Executive

Blacksmith; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 370,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Early-exercise stock options

12 weeks parental leave (US)

Quarterly offsites

Job summary

Blacksmith in San Francisco is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to drive adoption of our CI platform across large organizations. You’ll own strategic accounts, build a robust pipeline, and close six- to seven-figure deals, helping enterprises modernize CI and reduce cloud spend.

As an early upmarket hire, you’ll collaborate with engineering and sales, run multi-stakeholder cycles, and craft ROI narratives that resonate with CIO/CTO and procurement leaders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of quota-carrying sales experience.
• Proven track record of closing large enterprise deals ($100K+).
• Experience selling to VP/Director-level engineering and CIO/CTO.
• Ability to navigate procurement, legal, finance, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive net-new enterprise revenue across 1,000+ employee organizations.
• Lead discovery and multi-party evaluations using enterprise methodologies.
• Collaborate with Solutions Engineering on demos, benchmarking, and POCs.
• Build and manage a high-quality pipeline and close six- to seven-figure deals.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Large deals

Multi-stakeholder cycles

Job description

• We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
• Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each week, running CI for 7,000+ companies and tens of millions in ARR. We’ve grown 10x so far in 2026.
• We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
• We’ve raised $58.5M from Seed to Series B, led by Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners, and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
• Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
• We're now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.

• We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
• Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each week, running CI for 7,000+ companies and tens of millions in ARR. We’ve grown 10x so far in 2026.
• We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
• We’ve raised $58.5M from Seed to Series B, led by Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners, and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
• Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
• We're now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.

About Blacksmith

• We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
• Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each week, running CI for 7,000+ companies and tens of millions in ARR. We’ve grown 10x so far in 2026.
• We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
• We’ve raised $58.5M from Seed to Series B, led by Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners, and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
• Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
• We're now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.

About the Role

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will drive adoption of this new category across complex organizations with 1,000+ employees. You’ll help enterprises modernize CI, reduce cloud spend, and transform developer productivity at scale.

This is a founding Enterprise role, shaping how we sell into the largest, most sophisticated engineering organizations in the world.

Why Blacksmith

• We orchestrate millions of VMs monthly on our own bare-metal CI cloud.
• Over 600+ companies trust Blacksmith to power production CI at scale.
• Our founders built large-scale distributed systems at Cockroach Labs and Faire.
• YC W24 alum backed by a top-tier VC.
• Reached $1M ARR in under 12 months with a team of four.
• Enterprise is our next breakout growth engine — and you will help define it.

About The Role

As an Enterprise AE, you will own a portfolio of strategic accounts and drive large, complex sales cycles involving engineering leadership, DevOps, platform teams, procurement, security, finance, and C-suite stakeholders.

You will:

• Break into new Fortune 1000-level accounts
• Shape multi-party evaluations
• Run deep technical and commercial cycles
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver value across engineering and executive personas

This is a hunter role with full ownership of territory strategy, pipeline creation, deal execution, and expansion opportunities.

You’ll influence GTM strategy, product direction, and the overall enterprise motion as one of the earliest members of our upmarket sales team.

What You’ll Do

Drive net-new enterprise revenue

• Prospect and penetrate organizations with 1,000+ employees, targeting platform, DevOps, and engineering leadership.
• Strategically multithread across technical and business stakeholders.
• Build account plans, define win strategies, and execute toward large, multi-year agreements.

Own complex, high-value sales cycles end-to-end

• Lead discovery, scoping, and qualification using modern enterprise methodologies (MEDDICC, Challenger, etc.).
• Collaborate with Solutions Engineering on demos, benchmarking, and POCs.
• Navigate procurement, legal, finance, and risk/security assessments.
• Drive commercial negotiations to close six- and seven-figure deals.

Create and scale your own pipeline

• Build high-quality outbound strategies tailored to enterprise engineering organizations.
• Leverage signals around CI workload patterns, cloud cost pressures, and internal shift-left initiatives to identify high-probability targets.
• Partner closely with SDR, marketing, and founders to refine outreach and messaging.

Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders

• Understand CI architecture, cloud optimization strategies, ephemeral compute, and developer productivity metrics.
• Translate performance improvements into enterprise-level ROI and business impact narratives.
• Position Blacksmith competitively against hyperscalers, self-hosted runners, and traditional infrastructure alternatives.

Collaborate cross-functionally

• Work with product to shape roadmap priorities based on enterprise needs.
• Partner with Customer Success on adoption, expansion, and executive alignment.
• Contribute to sales playbooks, messaging, and early enterprise GTM frameworks.

You’ll Be a Great Fit If You Have

• 5+ years of quota-carrying sales experience. Selling horizontal SaaS, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, CI/CD, or highly technical platforms to organizations with 1,000+ employees.
• A proven track record of closing large enterprise deals ($100K+). You consistently exceed quota and have strong W2 history to show it.
• Experience running complex, multi-stakeholder cycles. You’ve sold into:
  • VP/Director-level engineering
  • Platform/SRE/DevOps teams
  • CIO/CTO organizations
  • Procurement, legal, finance, and security teams
• Strong technical acumen. You understand — or can quickly learn — concepts like CI/CD pipelines, ephemeral compute, containerization, cloud cost management, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity with autonomy. You thrive in early-stage environments where processes aren’t fully defined, and you enjoy building the motion, not just executing it.
• A consultative, value-driven approach. You excel at uncovering pain, aligning technical requirements to outcomes, and crafting enterprise-level ROI narratives.
• Executive presence & exceptional communication skills. You can influence senior engineering and business leaders with clarity and confidence.

Bonus Points

• Experience selling infra or developer platforms (CI/CD, cloud, DevOps tooling, performance engineering).
• Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization or compute-intensive workloads.
• Experience as an early GTM hire building enterprise sales processes from scratch.
• Curiosity about AI, automation, and modern engineering pipelines.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary + meaningful equity upside
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Early-exercise stock options
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (U.S.)
• Quarterly offsites

Compensation Range: $260K - $370K