About the RoleThis is a founding sales hire at an early-stage AI software company building intelligent agents for hardware engineering workflows - spanning simulation, CAD, and PLM. You'll own the full new-logo sales motion from day one, converting both warm founder-sourced opportunities and self-generated pipeline into closed deals, while creating the playbook that future sellers will run.
What You'll Do- Own the complete sales cycle - outbound prospecting, discovery, technical evaluation, procurement navigation, and close - for net-new enterprise accounts.
- Run unaided product demos and design technical evaluations inside customer models and workflows, translating results into business value without SE support.
- Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder buying committees, bridging CAE/simulation champions to VP/Director-level economic buyers.
- Build and execute target account plans against teams currently using tools such as ANSYS, SIMULIA, Altair, or Simcenter.
- Develop qualification criteria, discovery frameworks, evaluation templates, and objection-handling guides that form the company's go-to-market playbook.
- Feed structured learnings back to product to sharpen the agent and future sales motions.
- Build repeatable processes and documentation for the sales organization you'll help grow.
What We're Looking For- 6+ years of full-cycle, outbound-led B2B sales into engineering or manufacturing organizations, with a verifiable record of sourcing and closing net-new logos against quota.
- Proven ability to run unaided software demos and real technical evaluations with engineering teams - no reliance on a dedicated SE in the room.
- Direct experience selling into CAE/Simulation environments (ANSYS, SIMULIA, Altair, Siemens Simcenter, or equivalents) as a vendor rep, reseller, or competitor.
- Background selling CAD/CAE/PLM/EDA or adjacent deep-tech (dev tools, MLOps, infrastructure) into large enterprises; strong domain fluency is valued over formal engineering credentials.
- Fluency with AI agents and LLMs, with the ability to articulate practical agentic workflows and translate capabilities into concrete engineering value.
- Founding-hire mindset: comfortable building a motion from scratch, owning ambiguous work, and operating without an established playbook.
- Prior experience as an early or founding sales hire is a strong plus.
LocationOn-site in San Francisco, CA. Visa sponsorship is not available.