--- title: 'Account Executive | Enterprise | Southeast & Midwest at Cast AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/account-executive-enterprise-southeast-midwest-cast-ai-atlanta-georgia-6m3dmx1jdjmx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Account Executive | Enterprise | Southeast & Midwest at Cast AI - **Company:** Cast AI - **Location:** Atlanta Georgia, United States / Charlotte North Carolina, United States / Chicago Illinois, United States / Columbus Georgia, United States / Minneapolis Minnesota, United States / Nashville Tennessee, United States - **Posted:** 2026-06-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://cast.ai/careers/apply/?gh_jid=4288143009 ## Job description Why Cast AI? Cast AI is an automation platform that operates cloud-native and AI infrastructure at scale. By embedding autonomous decision-making directly into Kubernetes and cloud environments, Cast AI continuously optimizes performance, reliability, and efficiency in production. The old way doesn't work. As Kubernetes and AI environments grow, manual decisions don’t. Cast AI replaces tickets, alerts, and manual tuning with continuous automation that adapts infrastructure as conditions change. Efficiency and cost savings follow naturally from that automation. Over 2,100 companies already rely on Cast AI, including Akamai, BMW, Cisco, FICO, HuggingFace, NielsenIQ, Swisscom, and TGS. Global team, diverse perspectives We're headquartered in Miami, but our impact is international. We take a global and intentional approach to diversity. Today, Cast AI operates across 34 countries spanning Europe, North America, Latin America, and APAC, bringing a wide range of perspectives into how we build and lead. Unicorn momentum In January 2026, we achieved unicorn status with a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Shinsegae Group (a $50+ billion Korean conglomerate). Our valuation now exceeds $1 billion, and we're just getting started. Join us as we build the future of autonomous infrastructure. ## About the role As an Enterprise Account Executive at Cast AI, you are an entrepreneurial enterprise sales professional experienced in selling cloud SaaS in the following or adjacent industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Cost Control, Cloud Security, and DevOps tools. As we continue our rapid global expansion, we are looking for goals and people-oriented Account Executives to join the team and maximize the phenomenal market opportunity that exists for Cast AI. Requirements: - Location: candidates must be based in Southeast or Midwest area. - Proven experience in Opportunity Assessment, Value Discovery, Value Demonstration, and Value Delivery. - 10+ years of experience as an Account Executive in the enterprise segment - 4+ years of experience working with MEDDPICC or any sales qualification methodology - Proven ability to navigate complex, multi-threaded deals involving CTOs, VP Engineering, and FinOps leaders simultaneously. Must be comfortable running executive business reviews, leading technical discovery, and building champions across IT, Finance, and Procurement. - Ability to translate complex technical products (cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering) into clear business ROI narratives. Must be adept at building business cases, ROI calculators, and executive-level proposals tailored to each account's cloud spend and engineering maturity. - Strong collaboration with Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing to drive deals forward. Requires rigorous pipeline hygiene - accurate forecasting and CRM discipline - with the ability to present pipeline reviews confidently to leadership. - Ability to identify key contacts, understand client needs, and tailor proposals to address those needs - Demonstrated success in negotiation and closing, with a commitment to long-term customer satisfaction - Outbound Obsession - Experience with Kubernetes, sales lifecycle, and Cloud space is a significant plus - Brings solutions, not problems - we’re in build mode, so we need partners/collaborators that want to help build excellence in the Americas GTM Responsibilities: - Absolute ownership to build and source sustainable pipeline coverage. - Conducting Opportunity Assessments to pinpoint viable, high quality opportunities. - Engaging in Value Discovery to align our solutions with client needs and demonstrating the unique value of our offerings effectively. - Ensuring Value Delivery through meticulous implementation and results measurement. - Map, navigate and establish key stakeholder alignment. - Exhibiting high attention to detail throughout the sales process to confidently close and forecast to plan. What’s in it for you? - Join a fast-growing company at the forefront of cloud-native automation and Kubernetes technology. - Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment. - 401(k) retirement plan 100% company match on employee contributions up to 6% of pay (available after 3 months of employment). - Access UnitedHealthcare plans including medical, dental, and vision coverage. - Equity options. - Learning budget for your professional and personal growth. - Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues. - Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need. Hiring process - Screening call with Recruiter - Hiring Manager interview - 1-2 additional interviews based on the role - Culture Check interview with an executive *As part of our standard hiring process, we would like to inform you that a background check may be conducted at the final stage of recruitment through our third-party provider, Checkr. *Please note that Cast AI does not provide any form of visa sponsorship/work permit. #LI-Remote ## About Cast AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cast AI provides an Application Performance Automation (APA) platform that continuously optimizes Kubernetes infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability with minimal manual intervention. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; total funding ~$185.8M–$199.9M per conflicting reports) - **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Leon Kuperman (CEO), Laurent Gil (President), Yuri Frayman (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Kubernetes optimization, cloud cost management, and application performance automation. - **Target customers**: Platform, SRE, and FinOps teams at B2B companies running Kubernetes (SMB to enterprise). - **Mission/purpose statement**: “The cloud as promised: fast, reliable and cost-efficient.” [cast.ai/about-us](https://cast.ai/about-us/) ## Products & Services - **Cast AI APA Platform**: A SaaS platform that ingests real-time workload, cost, and SLO signals to autonomously rightsize pods, scale nodes, optimize GPU and Spot instances, and self-heal operational issues. Supports AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, and on-prem clusters. Includes cost and performance dashboards, agentic runbooks, and workload-aware predictive models. [cast.ai](https://cast.ai/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue reported as ~$60M (LinkedIn); Total Funding ~$185.8M (LinkedIn) or ~$199.9M (CB Insights – conflicting reports). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Specific investors are not named in available sources; funding rounds include Series B ($35M, Nov 2023, 3 investors), a venture round ($20M, Mar 2023), and Series C ($108M, Apr 2025, 8 investors). [linkedin.com/company/cast-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cast-ai) | [cbinsights.com/company/cast-ai](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cast-ai) - **Growth Signals**: 2100+ customers globally; 40% cloud waste reduction claimed; 270 employees (+19.4% YoY); ranked #1 out of 223 solutions in its category; offices in Miami, New York, Vilnius, London, Tel Aviv, Bengaluru, Dallas. [cast.ai/about-us](https://cast.ai/about-us/) | [linkedin.com/company/cast-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cast-ai) ## Competitive Advantages - **Predictive engine trained on massive dataset** from thousands of clusters and millions of workloads – moves beyond rule-based automation to workload-aware decisions. - **App-aware reliability**: Predicts spot instance interruptions up to 30 minutes before they occur, enabling graceful workload migration. - **Agentic runbooks** that self-heal drift, image issues, policy violations while requiring human approval for changes. - **Works in read-only mode initially** – no infrastructure changes required to start, lowering adoption risk. ## Strategic Focus - Expanding automation to GPU/AI workload optimization alongside traditional Kubernetes rightsizing. - Deepening integrations with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google) and extending agentic capabilities. - Scaling global presence with remote-first teams and new offices in key tech hubs. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first** culture with flexible hours and fully supported remote work; offices available in multiple countries. [cast.ai/careers](https://cast.ai/careers/) - **Benefits**: Stock options from day one, annual hackathon, home office allowance, learning & development budget, comprehensive health insurance, bonus days off, company events. - **Engineering culture**: Values “practice customer obsession,” “develop and hire the best,” “lead by ownership,” and “expect and advocate change.” Emphasis on innovation and fast learning. - **Glassdoor style**: Employer rating 4.3/5 (57 reviews); culture 4.0, compensation 4.2, career 4.2. [linkedin.com/company/cast-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cast-ai) ## Sources 1. [cast.ai/about-us](https://cast.ai/about-us/) 2. [cast.ai](https://cast.ai/) 3. [cast.ai/careers](https://cast.ai/careers/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/cast-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cast-ai) 5. 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