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BlacksmithBlacksmithSan Francisco, CA

Account Executive, Digital Natives

Own new business across high-growth, engineering-driven companies by generating pipeline, leading technical sales cycles, and closing net-new infrastructure customers. The role requires quota-carrying AE experience, technical credibility with engineers and executives, and strong outbound and deal-management skills.

Salary not listed
On-site3+ YOEAccount Executive

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own a territory of high-growth, engineering-driven companies from prospecting through close.
  • Identify high-impact accounts and develop strategies to win them.
  • Build relationships across engineering, platform, DevOps, finance, and executive stakeholders.
  • Run sales processes from initial conversations through technical evaluation, commercial negotiation, and close.
  • Generate pipeline through targeted outbound, creative prospecting, events, referrals, and personal networks.
  • Use product signals, engineering growth, cloud usage, funding, and hiring data to prioritize accounts.
  • Partner with marketing and growth while maintaining territory ownership.
  • Partner with Solutions Engineers on technical discovery, evaluations, and proof-of-concepts.
  • Understand CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, developer workflows, and the economics of compute at scale.
  • Translate improvements in speed, reliability, developer productivity, and infrastructure cost into business cases.
  • Multithread across engineers, platform teams, engineering leadership, founders, and CTOs.
  • Build champions and navigate technical, economic, organizational, security, procurement, legal, and commercial considerations.
  • Maintain pipeline hygiene and forecast accurately.
  • Bring customer and market feedback to product and engineering.
  • Help refine messaging, qualification criteria, sales processes, and playbooks.
  • Identify repeatable sales patterns and operate as an owner in an early-stage GTM organization.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of quota-carrying Account Executive experience, ideally selling infrastructure, developer tools, cloud services, observability, security, or technical SaaS.
  • Track record of consistently generating pipeline and winning net-new logos.
  • Ability to sell to engineers and technical executives and build credibility with technical buyers.
  • Curiosity and ability to learn how underlying technology works.
  • Experience running structured sales processes while moving quickly when appropriate.
  • Experience with both bottom-up adoption and top-down enterprise buying motions.
  • Experience multithreading, building champions, and connecting technical value to business outcomes.
  • Clear communication skills and ability to explain complex infrastructure concepts.
  • Strong preparation, follow-through, and pipeline discipline.
  • Interest in building sales playbooks and processes in an early-stage environment.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience selling to digital-native, startup, or developer-first companies.
  • Experience selling CI/CD, developer infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, observability, databases, security, or adjacent products.
  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions, CI pipelines, cloud economics, or developer productivity.
  • Experience in a product-led growth environment.
  • Experience at an early-stage or hypergrowth company.
  • Experience building territories, outbound motions, or sales processes from scratch.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and uncapped commission.
  • Meaningful equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Early-exercise stock options.
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave in the U.S.
  • Annual company offsite.

Skills

CI/CDCloud InfrastructureGitHub ActionsDevOpscloud economicsdeveloper productivityObservabilityDatabasesSecurityproof of concepts
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