BraintrustStrategic Account Executive (West Region)
Braintrust is hiring a Strategic Account Executive (West Region) in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Braintrust.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this sales role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include OpenAI, enterprise sales and b2b saas.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 28 other open roles at Braintrust.
AI in this role
Drive full-cycle enterprise sales for an AI agent observability platform targeting technical teams.
About the company
Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.
About the role
Braintrust is looking for an Strategic Account Executive who will be responsible for prospecting and closing new business across the West region of the US.
Braintrust already has a strong base of early customers including Stripe, Notion, Instacart, and Airtable, which you'll be able to build on to help us expand. Our primary users are software engineers, so you'll need to be comfortable working with a technical audience.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
What you’ll do
As part of the foundational sales team, you'll help develop our GTM strategy and close key customer accounts.
Build and own the entire sales process including engaging with potential customers, negotiating and closing contracts, customer retention, and renewals.
Navigate complex sales and win trust through consultative sales conversations with technical teams.
Ideal candidate credentials
You have 5-10+ years of full cycle sales experience, selling to technical audiences. Ideally to very large companies with complex deal cycles.
You have the drive and willingness to go deep on our product to carry a technical conversation with AI teams.
You are ready to roll up your sleeves and drive impact to exceed revenue targets.
You have a strong worth ethic, competitive drive, and you naturally inspire and motivate those around you.
You have thrived in environments where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.
Benefits include
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
Flexible time off
Competitive salary and equity
Wifi & cellphone stipend
Equal opportunity
Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
How we rate this
Strategic Account Executive (West Region) at Braintrust rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $140k
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where enterprise sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where b2b saas was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where technical sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where prospecting was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used OpenAI in your day-to-day work.
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Enterprise Sales, B2b Saas, Technical Sales, Prospecting, and OpenAI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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