Founding Business Development Rep

### About Featherless is building the world’s most reliable open-model inference platform — a serverless foundation for deploying and scaling AI without infrastructure overhead. Backed by **AMD, Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0 Residency, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures**, we’re a well-funded team of researchers and engineers on a mission to **democratize AI** through performance and accessibility. Our cloud provides instant access to **40,000+ open-source AI models** and the research innovations powering next-generation efficiency, reliability, and model optimization. ### About the Role We’re looking for a **founding member of the US/CA GTM team** — someone both technical and entrepreneurial that thrives at the intersection of AI, communication, and execution. This is _not_ a traditional sales role. You’re expected to be fluent in AI and be able to hold your own in conversations with model creators, AI startups, enterprises, and developers exploring open-model deployment. If you're a charismatic developer looking to expand into sales or a young entrepreneur that's developed technical skills we want to speak to you. ### What You’ll Own Immediately * Build & qualify pipeline across enterprises and AI startups * Manage inbound requests through chat and email * Manage outreach sequences and automations (HubSpot, Clay, , n8n) * Re-engage existing sign-ups and subscribers; identify high-value users * Track CRM, pipeline metrics, and weekly reporting * Attend events to generate pipeline and establish key relationships ### What You Bring * Combined 1-2 years experience in **Sales, Developer Relations, or Entrepreneurship** * Comfortable engaging technical audiences (developers, founders, researchers) * ### AI power user * Excellent written and verbal communication in english — concise, credible, human * Entrepreneurial and self-driven — you operate independently and get things done ### Why Featherless * Work directly with exec on high-impact partnerships and GTM strategy * Build your network across one of the fastest-growing open AI ecosystems * Be part of a small, high-performing team making open weight AI accessible to everyone Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)