Commercial Account Executive, Digital Native (San Francisco)
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Arize AI. San Francisco · $200,000–$230,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build relationships with AI/ML decision-makers and take part in the community to surface potential customers
- Find and qualify new deals through targeted outreach, account research and sales plays with tailored talk tracks
- Lead discovery conversations, explain how Arize could help and shape solutions around prospect goals
- Guide proof-of-concept work, licensing discussions and adoption, then expand accounts into additional workloads
- Coordinate customer and internal stakeholders through complex sales cycles to keep deals moving
What you bring
- At least five years in SaaS sales, including ownership of deals from prospecting through close
- Experience handling the complexity of enterprise sales and working with limited process
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to share clear, objective observations from the field
Who this fits
This role suits a self-starting seller who enjoys finding new business, working closely with customers and collaborating across teams. It is based in San Francisco, with in-person office work available for people in the Bay Area; the company is remote-first. The role is offered at a mid-level seniority.
From the employer
About Arize
AI is rapidly transforming the world. As generative AI reshapes industries, teams need powerful ways to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their AI systems. That’s where we come in. Arize AI is the leading AI & Agent Engineering observability and evaluation platform, empowering AI engineers to ship high-performing, reliable agents and applications. From first prototype to production scale, Arize unifies build, test, and run in a single workspace, so teams can ship faster with confidence.
Arize serves a rapidly growing customer base of 150+ leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies. Customers like Booking.com, Uber, Siemens, and PepsiCo leverage Arize to deliver AI that works.
The Team
Our engineering team builds systems that interact with some of the most complex software ever deployed in production. The team is composed of industry veterans that have built deep learning infrastructure, autonomous drones, ridesharing marketplaces, ad tech and much more.
We are looking for a fast-paced, client-obsessed Account Executive with an entrepreneurial mindset to find, win and grow new customers. You’ll be searching for business while being an engaged member of the AI/ML community, identifying prospects who will benefit most from our solution. You’ll accomplish this by running an effective ground-game, talking to AI/ML leaders, identifying opportunities to help and building solutions to help achieve their goals. You’ll be involved in exciting and complex sales cycles and leverage your business acumen to navigate the intricacies.
What You’ll Do
- Be a networker, seller and closer
- Build relationships with AI/ML stakeholders and be an active member of the community
- Conduct discovery with prospects and share the Arize vision
- Run a sophisticated prospecting strategy to “get the word out” and find deals
- Create sales plays, write talk tracks and strategically identify new business opportunities
- Deeply research accounts, stakeholders and competitors
- Manage proof of concepts, drive adoption and grow accounts
- Manage and navigate internal / external stakeholders to ensure success
- Understand use cases, scope licensing and find more workloads
- BANT or MEDDIC methodology preferred
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years SaaS sales experience: Hungry, aggressive and motivated
- Familiarity or willingness to learn sales technologies to find and attract prospects
- Self-starter and comfortable working in limited process environments
- Full-cycle sales experience and ability to navigate the complexities of enterprise deals
- Fast-paced and focused on helping prospects / customers
- Team player: Collaboration with peers and other organizations within Arize is critical to success, we deeply value the success of the collective team over individual gains
- Strong communication skills: Clearly and objectively communicate observations from the field
Bonus Points, But Not Required
- Previous selling experience in
- Software Engineering
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
The estimated annual salary and variable compensation for this role is between $200,000 - $230,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is determined based upon a variety of job related factors that may include: transferable work experience, skill sets, and qualifications. Total compensation also includes a comprehensive benefit package, including: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, unlimited paid time off, generous parental leave plan, and others for mental and wellness support.
While we are a remote-first company, we have opened offices in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, as an option for those in those cities who wish to work in-person. For all other employees, there is a WFH monthly stipend to pay for co-working spaces.
More About Arize
Arize’s mission is to make the world’s AI work—and work for people.
Our founders came together through a shared frustration: while investments in AI are growing rapidly across every industry, organizations face a critical challenge—understanding whether AI is performing and how to improve it at scale.
Learn more about what we're doing here:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/arize-ai-hopes-it-has-first-mover-advantage-in-ai-observability/
Diversity & Inclusion @ Arize
Our company's mission is to make AI work and make AI work for the people, we hope to make an impact in bias industry-wide and that's a big motivator for people who work here. We actively hope that individuals contribute to a good culture
- Regularly have chats with industry experts, researchers, and ethicists across the ecosystem to advance the use of responsible AI
- Culturally conscious events such as LGBTQ trivia during pride month
- We have an active Lady Arizers subgroup
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