Strategic Business Development

Liquid AI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We have a differentiated product, early enterprise traction, and growing customer demand. Now we are building a strategic business development team that can turn that momentum into a repeatable go-to-market motion. In this role, you will own revenue from the first conversation to the signed deal. You will work directly with the founders and business leadership. You will help define how Liquid goes to market: who we target, how we position, how we price, how we run evaluations, and how we win. This is not a role for someone who wants to inherit a mature playbook. Rather, for someone who wants to build one while closing meaningful, first of a kind deals.

Requirements

• 8+ years of revenue-driving experience in tech B2B sales or partnerships, with a track record of consistently meeting or exceeding goals, especially revenue-oriented goals.
• Recent experience selling AI/ML infrastructure, developer tools, data/ML platforms, or other technically sophisticated products.
• The ability to hold credible, high-trust conversations with deeply technical buyers and executives.
• A proven track record of creating pipeline yourself, not just converting pipeline created for you.
• Experience in an early-stage or Series A-C environment where you helped build the motion, not just execute an established one.
• Comfort selling through longer, consultative enterprise cycles with multiple technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Strong judgment on where to spend time, how to prioritize accounts, and how to drive a deal forward without overplaying your hand.

Nice To Haves

• Experience selling into consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, or financial services.
• Familiarity with modern outbound, pipeline, and forecasting tools.
• Relationships with technical decision-makers in our target account universe.

Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle, end to end: prospecting, outbound, discovery, technical validation, commercial negotiation, procurement, and close.
• Build and manage a high-quality pipeline across priority verticals through self-sourced outbound, your network, and qualified inbound demand.
• Sell Liquid Foundation Models to technical and executive buyers, including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of AI/ML, and product leaders.
• Lead complex, multi-threaded enterprise deals that involve technical evaluation, security review, legal, procurement, and executive alignment.
• Partner closely with engineering during technical deep-dives, proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, and deployment conversations.
• Shape pricing, packaging, and deal strategy in partnership with founders and business leadership.
• Be the voice of the market internally: bring back objections, competitive intelligence, pricing feedback, and emerging use cases that should influence product and positioning.
• Build the early sales system: qualification criteria, deal stages, messaging, objection handling, handoff processes, and the operating cadences the next hires will scale.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + variable compensation with equity in a unicorn-stage company
• We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
• 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
• Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed