Founding Sales Lead

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🕒 July 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $40k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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Clockwork Labs

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1 - 10 employees

🎮 Gaming

🥽 AR/VR

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $22M Series A on 2022-06

Gaming • AR/VR • Artificial Intelligence

Clockwork Labs is a new venture-backed game studio focused on creating massively-multiplayer 'societal games' that emphasize social interaction and cooperation over pure combat. The company aims to foster creative collaboration and rekindle the social spirit in virtual worlds. Clockwork Labs values decentralized decision-making, allowing small teams to lead the development of their own products. Backed by notable investors and industry veterans, the company brings together art and engineering to tackle challenging technological problems and craft memorable virtual experiences for players.

📋 Description

• Build the sales motion from the ground up, including CRM, qualification framework, pipeline management, messaging, and outbound process • Qualify and convert inbound developer interest into paying customers • Build and execute outbound campaigns targeting technical founders, engineering leaders, game studios, AI-native companies, and real-time application teams • Identify high-potential verticals and develop repeatable sales plays • Work with DevRel to align sales messaging with developer education and community engagement • Use content performance to inform outreach while DevRel owns technical content creation • Own customer relationships from initial conversation through commercial agreement • Bring technical teammates into the sales process when appropriate • Identify leverage opportunities through partnerships, developer communities, ecosystem relationships, and other channels • Improve workflow using AI tools for research, prospecting, outreach, qualification, and follow-up • Establish the foundation for a future sales organization • Report directly to the CEO and collaborate with Engineering, DevRel, and Marketing

🎯 Requirements

• Successfully sold developer tools, infrastructure software, databases, cloud platforms, or other highly technical products • Comfortable speaking with engineers, founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders about databases, APIs, distributed systems, real-time applications, or developer infrastructure • Thrive in early-stage environments where ambiguity is expected and building systems is part of the job • Actively use AI to improve the way you work and enjoy experimenting with new tools and workflows • Comfortable adapting sales approaches for individual developers, startup founders, and enterprise engineering teams • Know how to identify and engage technical buyers using modern outbound tools and personalized outreach • Enjoy learning new technologies and quickly becoming credible with technical audiences • Experience as a founding sales hire or one of the first commercial hires at a startup is a strong advantage • Experience building AI-assisted outbound or sales workflows is a strong advantage • Familiarity with Clay, Apollo, Instantly, Snov.io, or similar platforms is a strong advantage • Experience developing partnership or ecosystem sales motions is a strong advantage • Existing network within gaming, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, databases, or AI infrastructure is a strong advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity participation with significant upside • Flexible, remote-first work environment • Localized benefits where applicable • A portion of variable compensation is guaranteed during onboarding • Opportunity to build and lead the commercial function of a category-defining infrastructure company

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