Role 01
GTM Commercial Lead
You build relationships and close enterprise deals within our partner network's account base, alongside the CEO. Founding GTM partner, not a quota-carrying AE.
“The first sale is almost always internal.”
What this actually is
- You work directly with the CEO to build relationships and close enterprise deals within our partner network's existing account base. Not cold outreach: navigating a complex partner organization to earn the right to be in the room.
- You build and maintain relationships with internal account partners, learn their priorities, and find creative entry points when the obvious path is blocked.
- You run discovery with client stakeholders and translate it into a commercial narrative, then own the deal mechanics: proposals, SOWs, procurement sequencing, contract navigation.
- You document what works and enable partners to carry smaller opportunities themselves, so the motion becomes a repeatable system, not a series of one-offs.
What we're looking for
- Channel sales experience. You've sold through partners protective of their own accounts, and found side doors when the front door was closed.
- Technical fluency, not technical depth. You can hold your own in a conversation about data pipelines and AI systems without needing to build them yourself.
- High EQ. You read rooms, tell a champion from a blocker, and adjust your approach without losing your point of view.
- Deal instinct. You think in economics: services vs. software mix, margin, expansion triggers, long-term account value.
- Written clarity. Proposals, SOWs, and deal memos that people actually forward to their colleagues.
Signals we pay attention to
- 4–8 years in enterprise sales, solutions engineering, or technical account management at a data or AI company, close to six-figure-plus deals with multi-stakeholder approval chains.
- You've sold into or through large enterprise accounts where protecting the relationship mattered as much as closing the deal.
- Bonus: background at a company running a forward-deployed or consultative sales model (think Palantir, Databricks, Snowflake), or management consulting with a pivot into enterprise tech.