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title: 'Director of Sales at Starbridge'
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# Director of Sales at Starbridge

- **Company:** Starbridge
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $280k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starbridge/b2dba8be-01af-4326-8294-483c55801310

## Job description

## About Starbridge

We're building the front door for how businesses partner with government in America. Public agencies spend roughly a trillion dollars a year with private companies, and nearly all of it still moves through infrastructure that hasn't changed in decades. Starbridge is building the full operating system for that relationship: the data, the signals, the workflows, and the rails that let a company find a public buyer, win the work, and get paid. We monitor 320,000+ public sector entities around the clock. 500+ customers have joined us since our launch in March. We've raised $50M from top investors including Craft and Michael Seibel of Y Combinator.

## About the role

We're looking for a Director of Sales to directly manage and develop a growing team of Account Executives as we scale into our next stage of growth. Your number one job is to coach an already top-performing AE team into a best-in-class one. And you won't do it from the sidelines. You'll do it deep in deals, deep in the product, and deep in the weeds with your reps every single day. Your goal: make every AE on the team crush their number. You'll own coaching, live deal support, call review, and the systems (many of them AI-powered) that compound your team's output week over week. This is not a forecast-and-1:1s job. The reps you manage should feel like they have a measurably unfair advantage because you're in their corner and in their deals.

What you'll do:

- Directly manage AEs: Own the ramp, development, pipeline, and number for a team of quota-carrying Account Executives selling Starbridge into the SLED market.
- Live deal support: Jump into discovery, demo, pricing, and closing calls. Be the person your reps want to pull in when a deal is on the line.
- Coach relentlessly: Review Gong calls daily, run weekly deal reviews, and deliver pointed, specific, in-the-moment feedback. Raise both the floor and the ceiling on the team.
- Get into the product: Know Starbridge as well as any AE on the floor. Demo it, break it, and translate every product release into a sharper selling motion within days — not quarters.
- Be AI-forward: Use Claude and our own platform to automate what should be automated — call reviews, deal prep, forecast hygiene, follow-up emails, pipeline triage. Build prompts, agents, and workflows that compound across the team.
- Own the number: Call your team's forecast weekly and hit it. Build the operating rhythm — pipeline reviews, deal desk, forecasting — that makes attainment predictable.
- Hire and build: As we scale, help recruit, interview, and onboard the next wave of AEs. Raise the bar on every hire.

What you bring:

- 5+ years of demonstrated quota-crushing as an AE in B2B SaaS — with top-decile performance across multiple roles or years.
- 1–2+ years of direct sales leadership experience managing a team of quota-carrying AEs. You've owned a team number, not just an individual one.
- Technical fluency: You can get into any SaaS product, understand its data model, and teach reps how to use it as a weapon. You're excited to learn Starbridge inside-out in your first 30 days.
- In-the-trenches coach: You don't coach from the sidelines. You love being on live calls with your reps, and the idea of never jumping on a customer call again sounds like a demotion, not a promotion.
- World-class coaching ability: You can listen to a 30-minute discovery call and tell a rep the two moments that decided the deal. Reps leave your 1:1s sharper than they arrived.
- AI-forward operator: You already use Claude (or equivalent) daily. You've built prompts, agents, or automations that saved your team real time. When a new model ships, you're testing it against your workflows that week.
- High-output mindset: Starbridge is a fast-moving, in-office, high-intensity environment. We work hard and we love it.

Bonus if you have:

- Experience selling into, or adjacent to, SLED / public sector.
- First or early sales leader at a Series A / Series B company.
- You've built call-review, deal-coaching, or rep enablement systems from scratch.
- You've shipped internal AI tooling that your team actually used every day.

Interview process We move fast — really fast. Getting back to someone today beats tomorrow, and our interview process reflects that mindset. Please keep us posted on your timeline so we can move quickly and speed things up where needed. All interviews are conducted via Google Meet.

## How we work

- Build Bridges to Help Customers Win - We pride ourselves on being obsessively customer-centric.
- Shooting Star Speed - We move with extreme speed. We value momentum, decisiveness, and the ability to accelerate when it matters.
- Fun Is a Feature - We intentionally design Starbridge to be an energizing place to do hard work. Joy, humor, and camaraderie make great teams faster, sharper, and more resilient.
- In the Arena - We believe the best ideas come from living close to the work, feeling the friction, hearing the nuance, and experiencing the details firsthand.

Benefits include:

- Competitive salary + early-stage equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Regular offsites (NYC + global locations)

## About Starbridge

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Starbridge provides an AI-powered sales intelligence platform that helps businesses find, engage, and win public-sector contracts (government agencies, K-12, and higher education).
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $42M led by Craft Ventures in Nov 2025; total funding $52M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (first funding round in Feb 2025)
- **Founders**: Justin Wenig (CEO/Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered sales intelligence for the public sector (government, education)
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise GTM teams (sales, marketing, RevOps) selling to government agencies, K-12 school districts, and higher education institutions
- **Mission**: “We believe that the most pressing challenges of our time — economic growth, education, healthcare, public safety, climate and more — can only be solved through bold collaboration between trailblazing private companies and visionary government.”

## Products & Services
- **Starbridge Platform (SaaS)**: An all-in-one AI sales intelligence platform that includes:
  - **Early buying signals** – 24/7 monitoring of accounts to surface warm leads with verified contact data.
  - **RFP finder & writer** – AI-powered discovery of best-fit opportunities and proposal generation.
  - **Contact & account enrichment** – Enriches contact/company data and prioritizes accounts based on buying signals.
  - **Vendor spend intelligence** – Analyzes contracts, purchase data, and un-redacted sales proposals for education and local government.
  - **Conference intelligence** – Identifies relevant events, stakeholders, and personalized follow-up.
  - **Customer success** – Detects expansion signals and churn risk.
  - **Integrations** – Syncs with Salesforce and Hubspot.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **$52M total funding** (Seed $10M led by Owl Ventures, Feb 2025; Series A $42M led by Craft Ventures, Nov 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Craft Ventures (lead Series A), Owl Ventures (lead Seed); trusted by 400+ GTM teams including Instructure, SimpliGov, and Clever
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 72 employees (as of mid-2026), **+376.5% YoY**
  - Monthly headcount growth: +2.5%
  - Active job postings: 12 (monthly job posting growth +71.4%, yearly +200%)
  - Operating in 11 countries (US, Poland, UK, Ukraine, India, Switzerland, etc.)
  - Customer case studies show 90% reduction in research time, 20% increase in quota, and tripled pipeline in 6 months

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized AI for public sector**: Unlike generic sales intelligence tools, Starbridge is purpose-built for government and education procurement, monitoring hundreds of thousands of agencies in real time.
- **Proprietary data & signals**: Tracks RFPs, budgets, procurement rules, contract expirations, and meeting discussions – data not easily accessible through other platforms.
- **Deep CRM integration**: Works seamlessly with Salesforce and Hubspot, enabling immediate action on buying signals.
- **Proven ROI**: Customer testimonials cite dramatic reductions in research time (up to 90%) and increased win rates.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Hiring across product, data, and GTM roles (AI Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Account Executive, etc.)
- **Geographic growth**: Scaling teams in Europe/LATAM (e.g., Senior Backend Engineer and Senior Product Engineer roles based in Europe/LATAM)
- **Vision**: Inspire a new wave of entrepreneurs to build for public good, bridging the gap between private innovation and government needs

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment**: 376% headcount growth in the last year, recent $42M Series A – strong trajectory and resources.
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to work on technology that directly impacts public sector efficiency and collaboration.
- **Remote/hybrid flexibility**: HQ in New York, but many roles are open to Europe/LATAM; some positions are NYC-based.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical team (22% of headcount), use of modern stack (Java/Kotlin, TypeScript/React, Python, Snowflake, etc.), and emphasis on AI and data.
- **Notable perks**: Fast-paced startup with recent funding, exposure to high-stakes government sales, and a chance to shape the product from early stages.

## Sources
1. [starbridge.ai](https://starbridge.ai/)
2. [starbridge.ai/about-us](https://starbridge.ai/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn – Starbridge](https://www.linkedin.com/company/starbridge-ai)
4. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – Starbridge](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starbridge)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – AI Engineer posting](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starbridge/117e56db-e1b7-4f83-bc18-44af88efa04e)

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