Company Overview:
Centific expertly engineers platforms and curates multimodal, multilingual data to empower the ‘Magnificent Seven’ and enterprise clients with safe, scalable Artificial intelligence (AI) deployment. Our team includes over 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We leverage an integrated ecosystem comprised of industry-leading partnerships, and 1.8 million vertical domain experts across 230 locales, to create high-quality pre-trained datasets, fine-tuned industry-specific Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines supported by vector databases. Our innovations can reduce Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) costs by up to 80% and bring Gen AI solutions to market 50% faster.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in Generative AI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by leveraging Generative AI at scale, ensuring they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.
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Strategic Account Executive
Location: Seattle or San Francisco
The Strategic Account Executive will play a critical role in growing market share in Generative AI. This position is part of the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) responsible for selling into the "Magnificent Seven" foundation models (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc.). This is a highly technical role requiring:
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop a deep understanding of AI and data and effectively communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and concise manner.
- Demonstrate a successful track record of breaking into new accounts or expanding relationships within existing accounts.
- Engage with diverse stakeholders, including business, procurement, technical teams, and executive-level audiences.
- Collaborate with multiple functional teams, such as legal, product, marketing, pre-sales, delivery, quality, and operations, to ensure customer success.
- Manage fast turnaround requests, especially during early product development phases.
Your Role Will Include:
- Working closely with the Account Client Partner to plan and execute go-to-market strategies and drive revenue growth.
- Driving revenue generation and consumption.
- Coordinating with cross-functional teams to deliver proposals and solutions that create value for customers.
- Building value in all engagements to facilitate successful negotiations and close deals.
- Ensuring a high degree of client satisfaction.
Qualifications:
- 5-8 years of B2B sales or solution engineering experience.
- 4+ years of experience in sales/solution sales with a proven track record of selling and closing complex solutions to enterprise and software companies, with deal sizes ranging from $XM to $XMM.
- 4+ years of experience selling data, ML, or AI solutions to technical audiences (e.g., data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers).
- Experience engaging both business and technical audiences.
- Demonstrated success in achieving sales quotas consistently.
- Ability to manage the entire sales process, from prospecting and qualifying to deal management and closure.
- Experience developing and presenting executive-level materials.
- Passion, creativity, and a willingness to think outside the box.
- Familiarity with sales process systems (Dynamics or Salesforce).
Benefits offered - comprehensive healthcare, dental & vision, 401k plan, PTO, etc.
Centific is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.