Head of Sales

Asari AI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Full health coverage

401(k) match

Wellness perks

Flexible hours

Unlimited PTO

Daily meals in office

Learning budgets

Team socials

Job summary

Asari AI seeks a seasoned Business Development leader in San Francisco to identify, pursue, and originate commercial opportunities.

You will define go-to-market strategies, build external relationships, and connect with prospective customers and partners, translating technical capabilities into business value for engineering leads and key decision-makers, driving deals from first contact to signed contract.

Qualifications

5+ years in business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, or equivalent customer-facing/technical role with pipeline generation & closing.
Established network across technology industries (software, cloud, automotive, aerospace, robotics, critical infrastructure, etc.).
Proven track record of building relationships and generating opportunities from start to close.
Comfortable as an early, credible champion for a new AI product.
Excellent written and verbal communication with strong technical fluency.
Ability to operate independently and create momentum from scratch.
Openness to learning and using AI tools, agents, and emerging tech.

Responsibilities

Identify, pursue, and originate commercial opportunities.
Define and run go-to-market strategies, build external relationships, and connect with customers and partners.
Translate technical capabilities into business value for engineers and decision-makers.
Take deals from first contact through signed contracts.

Skills

Business development

Strategic partnerships

Enterprise sales

Networking across tech industries

Relationship building

Communication

Independent ownership

Ambition to learn AI tools

Job description

Build AI to co-invent the future

Our mission is to empower people to invent solutions for the world’s hardest problems, working together with scalable and reliable AI agents. For example, our agents can efficiently reason about and verify mission-critical code, including migrating space-grade software from C to Safe Rust.

Our team has published award-winning AI research and is backed by top-tier investors including Eric Schmidt, Caltech, Jeff Dean, and JP Millon.

We move fast, think from first principles, and build with purpose. We believe that great results come when people take ownership, grow together, and share both the challenges and the wins.

What You'll Do

You will identify, pursue, and originate commercial opportunities. You will define and run go-to-market strategies, build external relationships, and connect with prospective customers and partners. You will translate technical capabilities into business value for engineering leads and key decision-makers, turning early interest into qualified opportunities and taking deals from first contact through signed contract.

What You Have

5+ years experience in business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, or an equivalent customer-facing/technical role in software or engineering-heavy markets with direct experience in both pipeline generation and closing
Established network across one or more technology industries, such as software, cloud infrastructure, automotive, aerospace, robotics, critical infrastructure, communications, transportation
Proven track record of building relationships and generating opportunities from the ground up all the way through closing deals
Comfort with being an early, credible champion for a new AI product
Excellent written and verbal communication and strong technical fluency
Ability to operate independently and create momentum from scratch
Openness to learning and using AI tools, agents, and emerging technology

Compensation, Benefits, And Perks