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title: 'Head of Sales at Asari AI'
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# Head of Sales at Asari AI

- **Company:** Asari AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asari.ai/eda62bcf-1b6c-4691-a1b8-a0da01203e58

## Job description

## BUILD AI TO CO-INVENT THE FUTURE

Our mission is to empower people to invent solutions for the world’s hardest problems, working together with scalable and reliable AI agents. For example, our agents can efficiently reason about and verify mission-critical code, including migrating space-grade software from C to Safe Rust https://asari.ai/blog/space-grade-software.

Our team has published award-winning AI research and is backed by top-tier investors including Eric Schmidt, Caltech, Jeff Dean, and JP Millon.

We move fast, think from first principles, and build with purpose. We believe that great results come when people take ownership, grow together, and share both the challenges and the wins.

## What you'll do

You will identify, pursue, and originate commercial opportunities. You will define and run go-to-market strategies, build external relationships, and connect with prospective customers and partners. You will translate technical capabilities into business value for engineering leads and key decision-makers, turning early interest into qualified opportunities and taking deals from first contact through signed contract.

## What you have

- 5+ years experience in business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, or an equivalent customer-facing/technical role in software or engineering-heavy markets with direct experience in both pipeline generation and closing
- Established network across one or more technology industries, such as software, cloud infrastructure, automotive, aerospace, robotics, critical infrastructure, communications, transportation
- Proven track record of building relationships and generating opportunities from the ground up all the way through closing deals
- Comfort with being an early, credible champion for a new AI product
- Excellent written and verbal communication and strong technical fluency
- Ability to operate independently and create momentum from scratch
- Openness to learning and using AI tools, agents, and emerging technology

Compensation, benefits, and perks

We offer competitive compensation packages, full health coverage, and a 401(k) match, plus additional wellness perks, flexible hours, and unlimited PTO. We prioritize growth and connection through daily meals in office, learning budgets, and regular team socials.

## About Asari AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Asari AI builds advanced AI agents that plan, reason, verify, and discover new knowledge, enabling humans to co-invent the future through collaboration with powerful AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Stephan Zheng (Founder and CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Information and Internet
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises and research institutions needing advanced AI capabilities for scientific discovery, engineering, and complex problem-solving
- **Mission/purpose statement**: "To build AI that helps us co-invent the future" – a world where anyone with imagination can collaborate with AI to invent and design at scale.

## Products & Services
- **[EnCompass]**: A framework that rethinks how AI agents explore complex problems by separating work from inference-time search strategies. Presented at NeurIPS 2024 and designed to help developers capture key logic while abstracting away search strategies. (Type: AI agent framework)
- **[Core AI Platform]**: A new type of AI agent that learns, reasons, plans, verifies, and discovers new skills and knowledge. Underpins the company's vision of human-AI collaboration for invention. (Type: AI platform/SaaS)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company, early stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – Seed round led by Eric Schmidt, with participation from Caltech, Jeff Dean, and JP Millon (announced March 26, 2024). Exact amount not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind), Caltech, JP Millon. Advisors include Yisong Yue (Caltech professor) and Swarat Chaudhuri (UT Austin professor).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +40% YoY to 8 employees; monthly website traffic up +126.9% and yearly traffic up +151.5%; active hiring with 5 open positions; company launched EnCompass at NeurIPS 2024.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep ties to top academic AI research** (Caltech, UT Austin, NeurIPS) giving credibility and recruiting pipeline.
- **Focus on agents that combine planning, verification, and discovery** – a differentiation from many pure chatbot or retrieval-based AI companies.
- **Strong early backing from tech luminaries** (Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean) and institutional support (Caltech).
- **Small, high-caliber team** with talent sourced from Caltech, Microsoft, and IBM, enabling rapid iteration and culture of excellence.

## Strategic Focus
- Building the AI infrastructure and compute to help people invent complex systems of the future.
- Developing agents that can handle multi-step reasoning and search, with emphasis on memory-safe languages (Rust) and scalable distributed infrastructure.
- Expanding the team across AI engineering, infrastructure, and business development to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-friendly culture** with in-office options in San Francisco and Montréal. Employees work remotely but have access to two office hubs.
- **Founding-stage impact** – join a tight-knit team of ~8 people backed by world-class investors and advisors.
- **Cutting-edge AI research** – work on novel agent frameworks published at top venues like NeurIPS.
- **Tech stack** includes PyTorch, CUDA, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, and modern ML ops (MLflow, Grafana, Prometheus).
- **Active hiring** for roles: Kernel Engineer, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Business Development Lead – indicating growth and investment in core engineering.

## Sources
1. [asari.ai](https://asari.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/asari-ai)
3. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/asari-ai)
4. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/asari-ai)
5. [Jobs Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asari.ai)

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