Founding Sales

Founding Sales LocationNYC (NY), San Francisco (CA) or Paris (FR)Employment TypeFull timeDepartmentGTMCompensation$150K – $400K • Offers EquityAbout the roleWe’re looking for a top-tier sales to join our go-to-market team as the first account executive and work hand-in-hand with our founders and the rest of the GTM team.You’ll play a key role in bringing Linkup, the search layer for AI agents, to market, working with some of the most advanced teams in AI.Your core responsibilities will be to:Own the full sales cycle: from outreach and discovery to demo, negotiation, and closePartner with high-intent inbound leads across AI, data, and enterprise segmentsRun compelling product demos and solutioning sessions with technical teamsUnderstand customer workflows deeply and position Linkup’s APIs and infrastructure as the foundation for their AI systemsCollaborate closely with Product and Engineering to craft custom solutions and feed insights from the fieldBuild repeatable playbooks for selling to AI-native teams and enterprise innovation groupsContribute to GTM strategy, pricing, and messaging based on market feedbackTrack and report key metrics across pipeline, win rate, and expansion opportunitiesRequirementsYou’re a great match if you:Are excited to help build Google for AI agents, and believe in Linkup’s missionHave 4+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or technical sales (AI, developer tools, or data infra a plus)Are comfortable engaging with technical buyers, founders, CTOs, engineers, and data teamsBring a consultative approach, you focus on understanding pain points before pitching featuresHave a proven track record of closing multi-stakeholder, high-value dealsCommunicate clearly, tell a compelling story, and can tailor the narrative to any audienceThrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environmentExample ProjectsClose a deal with an AI infrastructure startup building multi-agent workflows on LinkupRun discovery and expansion with a Fortune 500 innovation lab using Linkup for compliance-grade retrievalBuild GTM playbooks for developer adoption, from first API call to paid usagePartner with Product and Marketing to refine messaging for enterprise buyersDetailsThe ideal candidate will play a central role in our GTM team, partnering closely with the founders to spearhead groundbreaking products. Your expertise will shape the future of AI‑powered applications and bring our vision to life.We offer a flexible remote‑work policy- see the details here.Join us and leverage your expertise to push the boundaries of AI!About LinkupOur VisionWe believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web. These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.AI agents need web search. To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.Modern web search is built for humans, not AIs. Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.Web 2.0 is sunsetting. The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home.Search for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up. We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.Humans search...