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# Founding Client Partner at MAI

- **Company:** MAI
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mai/ccbb7572-b4b0-4e4a-a44d-43d6e74765ad

## Job description

## ABOUT US

At MAI (pronounced “my”), we're on a mission to democratize advanced advertising technology. We believe that cutting-edge marketing tools, once exclusive to large enterprises with massive budgets, should be accessible to everyone. Our platform uses AI agents to automate and optimize performance marketing, empowering small and mid-sized businesses to scale their ad spend profitably without the need for an agency or endless hours of manual campaign management.

Founded by ad platform veterans from Google and Instacart, we've successfully raised a $25 million Seed funding round led by Kleiner Perkins to accelerate our growth. This capital will be used to expand our teams, bringing our vision of intelligent, autonomous marketing to life. Our AI agents have already proven their value, helping clients drive meaningful lift in sales and return on ad spend, and managing hundreds of millions in monthly ads spend across Google, Microsoft, and Meta.

## WHY JOIN NOW

Building the infrastructure for intelligent AI agents is uncharted territory—and we’re writing the playbook. As a Client Partner at MAI, you’ll be part of our go-to-market team, helping shape how we engage and scale with eCommerce brands. You’ll prospect, pitch, and close customers, while directly influencing our GTM motion, tooling, and product roadmap through your customer insights. This is a rare opportunity to join an AI-native company at an inflection point—where each deal you close shapes the trajectory of our business.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own the full sales cycle – from prospecting to close and expansion. You’ll generate 75%+ of your pipeline through strategic outbound and identifying intent signals to position MAI as the growth multiplier for eCommerce brands.
- Become a domain expert in performance marketing and AI agents. Through MAI’s product training and direct client engagement, you’ll deeply understand how AI optimizes campaigns, budgets, and ROAS for customers.
- Act as a trusted advisor to marketers, understanding how they think about growth and profitability, and guiding them through the transformation as they leverage AI to expand capabilities and free up resources to tackle other strategic objectives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, ops, and marketing to share customer feedback, influence roadmap priorities, and co-develop scalable GTM processes.
- Maintain CRM excellence, documenting learnings, activities, and performance data to continuously improve targeting and efficiency.

## WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- 3–5 years of full-cycle sales experience, with a proven record of exceeding quota.
- Experience selling Ads, AdTech, or Marketing SaaS to mid-market or growth-stage eCommerce customers.
- Background as a Senior Client Partner at a high-growth tech company.
- Deep understanding of sales principles and playbooks, plus the ability to adapt and iterate them in a fast-moving environment.
- Analytical and data-driven mindset, using metrics to inform strategy and drive decision-making.
- Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and communication skills; thrives under pressure and deadlines.
- A team player with leadership potential—capable of mentoring others as the team scales.

## WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT MAI

- Unparalleled Learning: You'll be at the forefront of AI agents in a $1T plus industry working and learning from a stellar team.
- High Impact: As an early member of a lean and powerful team, your work will directly shape our core platform's market fit, our culture, and the success of our customers.
- A Culture of Curiosity: We're a tight-knit team of passionate builders who value transparency, first-principles thinking, and a relentless drive to solve hard problems together.
- True Ownership: We believe in empowering our team. You'll have significant autonomy over your work and a clear path for growth as the company scales.

## COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

We're offering a stake in our success and a commitment to your well-being. Our total compensation package is designed to support you, both professionally and personally:

- OTE: $200,000 to $250,000 OTE that includes a base salary range of $100,000 to $125,000.
- Equity: We want you to feel invested in our mission, which is why we offer meaningful equity.
- Health and Wellness: Our medical, dental and vision coverage is designed to take care of you and your family.
- 401(k): We'll help you build for your future with a competitive 401(k) program.

Are you ready to build the future with us? We believe in a holistic approach to hiring. If you're passionate about our mission and have a drive to learn and grow, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value potential, curiosity, and hunger. We can't wait to hear from you.

## About MAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MAI provides an AI agent platform that autonomously manages and optimizes performance marketing campaigns across Google, Meta, and Microsoft Ads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Wilmington, Delaware, USA (with a San Francisco presence and remote options)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Yuchen (CEO) and Jian Wang (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered marketing automation / AdTech
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily D2C brands, e-commerce businesses, and marketing teams; also used by agencies
- **Mission**: “Give every business the same ad superpowers as a Fortune 500” — democratizing enterprise-grade ad technology through autonomous AI agents.

## Products & Services
- **[MAI AI Agent](https://www.mai.co/)**: A SaaS platform that connects Google Ads, Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads, Shopify, and Google Analytics. It uses machine learning to automate campaign creation, bid adjustments, budget pacing, attribution, and real-time optimization. Agents learn each business’s unique products, customers, and goals, and explain every action in plain language for full customer control.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $25M (Seed round, October 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Amino Capital, Gaorong Ventures, Shanda Grab Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Welight Capital, and others. Advisors include Jerry Dischler (former President of Google Ads) and Tal Shaked (Chief ML Engineer at Moloco).
- **Growth Signals**: 37 employees as of May 2026; emerged from stealth in September 2025; already managing millions in monthly ad spend for brands like Dreo, DrWoof, Fanka, Flamingo, NutritionFaktory, Patpat, Velotric, and Vivaia; claims to have helped brands drive 40% or more in sales; many customers have increased ad budgets after seeing sustained returns.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Built by former senior engineers from Google Ads and Instacart, who understand both ad platforms and e-commerce challenges.
- **Autonomous & real-time**: AI agents operate 24/7 without human monitoring, dynamically tuning budgets, bids, and creatives.
- **Explainable & controlled**: Every action is explained in plain language; customers always retain ownership and control of their ad accounts.
- **Adaptive learning**: Customizes strategies per business using its own data, avoiding one-size-fits-all rules.
- **Multi-platform integration**: Supports Google, Meta, and Microsoft Ads out of the box, with Shopify and GA4 for attribution.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand product/engineering teams** – actively hiring to increase talent density
- **Accelerate platform development**, including support for additional ad platforms
- **Target fast-growing D2C brands and lean marketing teams** that need enterprise-level automation without agency overhead

## Why Work Here
- **High talent density**: A small, intense team of engineers, scientists, and marketers with deep experience at Google, Instacart, and Yale (Professor Yihong Wu as advisor)
- **Remote-friendly**: “San Francisco + Remote” on the careers page
- **Top-tier backing**: Seed round led by Kleiner Perkins with strong advisory board
- **Cutting-edge AI work**: Building autonomous agents for a massive, active market (digital advertising)
- **Meaningful impact**: Enabling businesses of all sizes to compete with Fortune 500 ad capabilities

## Sources
1. [mai.co](https://www.mai.co/) – Official website (product overview, team, FAQ)
2. [mai.co/career](https://www.mai.co/career) – Careers page (culture, open positions, location)
3. [mai.co/post](https://www.mai.co/post/mai-raises-25m-to-automate-performance-marketing-with-ai-agents-driving-revenue-for-brands) – Funding announcement (September 2025)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/mai/__0U7y7jnRrTUzm30MC3ec4YPVqN0bPaGIEsx0E_W-DcI) – Tracxn profile (founding year, employee count, investors)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mai/3f7110eb-0127-4d6b-bfe7-6c7261b98d58) – Job listing (engineering role details)

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