Sales Manager - Enterprise

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies like Cursor Notion OpenEvidence Abridge Clay Gamma and Writer.

By uniting applied AI research flexible infrastructure and seamless developer tooling we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production.

We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-series-f/ led by Altimeter Capital Conviction Partners and Spark Capital.

Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

THE ROLE We're hiring a Sales Manager to help build and lead our founding team of Enterprise Account Executives in London.

Enterprise at Baseten means the companies with the most to gain from AI and the most complexity in getting there: large digital natives running products at massive scale and category leaders in software financial services healthcare and beyond.

They have the data the distribution and the budget.

Most are still deciding what to build what to run themselves and what it should cost.

You'll help recruit the first reps run deals alongside them while the team ramps and contribute to the playbook for how Baseten wins European enterprises.

It's a founding seat with real influence on how we build here close to our founders and GTM leadership.

RESPONSIBILITIES - Recruit hire and ramp the founding team of Enterprise AEs in London.

This is your highest-leverage work in year one - Coach reps through long multi-stakeholder cycles: multithreading across buying committees navigating security and procurement and closing seven- and eight-figure deals - Raise the bar on consultative selling.

Your reps should be advising customers on AI strategy not just running a product evaluation - Partner on shaping and executing go-to-market strategy for the region including which verticals to attack first - Operate as a player-coach early on carrying deals yourself while the team builds - Stay deep enough on the product to guide reps through technical evaluations POCs and architecture reviews alongside our forward-deployed engineers - Work with Marketing Product Engineering and Legal to turn European enterprise requirements into roadmap and GTM input - Build a culture of accountability learning and collaboration from the first hire forward REQUIREMENTS - 6+ years of closing experience with 2+ years managing high-performing teams - Proven success in Enterprise sales closing complex multi-stakeholder deals inside large organizations - Experience selling into large digital natives or regulated industries (financial services healthcare/life sciences insurance government) - A track record of recruiting strong sellers ideally as a first or early hire in a new team or region - Strong technical acumen ideally in AI infrastructure cloud infrastructure or developer platforms.

You're comfortable in the weeds - Willingness to sell as well as manage while the team is small - Based in London and able to be in office at least 3 days per week (Tuesday to Thursday) BENEFITS - Competitive compensation including meaningful equity - (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical dental and vision insurance for employee and dependents - Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!) - Paid parental leave - Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot - (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k) - Exposure to a variety of ML startups offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI!

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team we would love to hear from you.

At Baseten we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance where applicable).