Manager, Strategic Sales

Job description

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 , 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-…