Founding GTM Lead

Tungsten Dev, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Tungsten Dev, Inc. is seeking a Founding GTM Lead in San Francisco to generate pipeline, own deals end-to-end, and extend relationships across accounts. You will help define the ICP, messaging, and playbooks while working directly with founders to shape the sales motion.

This hands-on, individual-contributor role carries founding-level ownership and a chance to impact product direction and investor relations as the company scales.

Qualifications

  • Experience sourcing and closing complex B2B software deals.
  • Ability to sell to business owners with quantified value.
  • Proven success navigating enterprise procurement and growing accounts.
  • Fluency explaining AI, data integrations, and deployment constraints.

Responsibilities

  • Generate pipeline through outbound, referrals, and partners.
  • Own the full sales cycle from discovery to close.
  • Turn workshops into signed deals and manage security/ procurement steps.
  • Expand accounts by finding additional use cases across functions.
  • Help build ICP, messaging, pricing, and sales process.
  • Bridge customer needs with product decisions alongside founders.

Skills

SaaS sales
Enterprise deals
Account expansion
Qualifying framework
Executive communication

Job description

Tungsten scales specialized knowledge work at enterprises without hiring more headcount.

As our Founding GTM Lead, you’ll work directly with the founders to build our sales motion from the ground up. You’ll generate pipeline, own deals through close, and grow existing customer relationships. There’s no fully established playbook: you’ll help define who we sell to, how we communicate value, and what makes the motion repeatable.

This is a hands‑on individual contributor role with founding-level ownership.

What you’ll do
  • Generate your own pipeline. Identify promising accounts and buyers, develop targeted outreach, and create opportunities through outbound, referrals, and partners.
  • Own the full sales cycle. Lead discovery, build the business case, align stakeholders, negotiate commercial terms, and close.
  • Turn workshops into signed deals. Take commercial ownership after founder‑led workshops, establish success criteria and next steps, and navigate security, legal, and procurement with support from our team.
  • Expand existing accounts. Build relationships beyond the initial champion and uncover additional use cases within and across functions.
  • Build the playbook with us. Test and refine our ICP, messaging, qualification, pricing, and sales process based on what works.
  • Connect customer needs to product decisions. Work with founders and engineering to scope valuable, achievable opportunities and bring customer feedback into product development.
What we’re looking for
  • Experience personally sourcing and closing complex B2B software deals, ideally as an early seller at a startup.
  • Ability to sell to business owners: understand their workflows, quantify value, identify budget, and build a compelling case for change.
  • Experience moving evaluations through enterprise procurement and growing accounts after the first purchase.
  • Enough technical fluency to understand AI capabilities, data integrations, and deployment constraints, and explain them clearly to business audiences.
  • Comfort working with ambiguity, trying approaches that may fail, and turning what you learn into a better sales motion.
  • Strong ownership and follow-through. You can move deals forward independently and know when to bring in the founders.
  • Experience selling AI applications or workflow automation is a plus.
Why join
  • Founding-level role focused on defining how Tungsten reaches customers, wins business, and grows.
  • Help shape the product through direct customer work.Backed by top-tier investors and multiple enterprises already running in production.
  • Access to the best operators, capital, and networks in the industry.
  • Learn what it takes to build a successful company.
  • Work directly with experienced founders with AWS/FAIR/Hugging Face backgrounds and world-class investors.
  • Opportunity to have outsized ownership and impact at the earliest stage.
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