Account Executive - Industries

Baseten · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · GTM

Enterprise Account Executive role at Baseten, a company providing AI inference infrastructure. The role focuses on selling Baseten's platform to complex, regulated industries like financial services and healthcare. Responsibilities include owning the sales cycle, driving new business, acting as a trusted advisor, and collaborating with engineering and product teams. Requires 8+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience in technology, with a track record of closing large deals and experience in regulated industries. Technical acumen in areas like model serving and GPU infra is important. Nice to have direct experience selling AI/ML infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a revenue target and all aspects of the sales cycle from prospecting to close, including outbounding and engaging Tier 1 accounts in your assigned verticals
  2. Drive new logo acquisition and strategic expansion within key accounts, prioritizing organizations that can serve as lighthouse customers within their industries
  3. Become a trusted advisor to customers—understand their unique infrastructure needs, co-innovate on solutions, and lead with conviction by providing clear recommendations grounded in deep industry expertise
  4. Partner with Baseten’s forward-deployed engineers to run technical evaluations, POCs, and architecture reviews that earn customer confidence
  5. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Marketing to bring new solutions to market, develop sales collateral, and refine go-to-market tactics for industry verticals

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience in technology, preferably selling infrastructure, API/platform solutions, or developer tooling into large, complex organizations
  • A track record of managing complex sales cycles and closing seven- and eight-figure deals by navigating multi-stakeholder buying committees and crafting tailored solutions
  • Experience selling into at least one of: financial services, healthcare/life sciences, insurance, government, or similarly regulated industries
  • Strong technical acumen - you have experience ramping into highly technical sales environments, and will be able to get comfortable holding your own in conversations about model serving, GPU infra, latency and API architecture.
  • A strategic, analytical approach to assessing markets combined with creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships from ICs to C-level executives
  • A roll-up-your-sleeves mentality and comfort with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment where the playbook is still being written

Nice to have

  • Direct experience selling AI/ML infrastructure, cloud compute, or model deployment platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • selling infrastructure
  • selling API/platform solutions
  • selling developer tooling
  • selling into at least one of: financial services, healthcare/life sciences, insurance, government, or similarly regulated industries
  • selling AI/ML infrastructure
  • selling cloud compute
  • selling model deployment platforms