About Blacksmith
We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each week, running CI for 7,000+ companies and tens of millions in ARR. We’ve grown 10x so far in 2026.
We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
We’ve raised $58.5M from Seed to Series B, led by Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners, and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
We're now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.
About the Role
As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will drive adoption of this new category across complex organizations with 1,000+ employees. You’ll help enterprises modernize CI, reduce cloud spend, and transform developer productivity at scale.
This is a founding Enterprise role, shaping how we sell into the largest, most sophisticated engineering organizations in the world.
Why Blacksmith
We orchestrate millions of VMs monthly on our own bare-metal CI cloud.
Over 600+ companies trust Blacksmith to power production CI at scale.
Our founders built large-scale distributed systems at Cockroach Labs and Faire.
YC W24 alum backed by a top-tier VC.
Reached $1M ARR in under 12 months with a team of four.
Enterprise is our next breakout growth engine — and you will help define it.
About the Role
As an Enterprise AE, you will own a portfolio of strategic accounts and drive large, complex sales cycles involving engineering leadership, DevOps, platform teams, procurement, security, finance, and C-suite stakeholders.
You will:
Break into new Fortune 1000-level accounts
Shape multi-party evaluations
Run deep technical and commercial cycles
Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver value across engineering and executive personas
This is a hunter role with full ownership of territory strategy, pipeline creation, deal execution, and expansion opportunities.
You’ll influence GTM strategy, product direction, and the overall enterprise motion as one of the earliest members of our upmarket sales team.
What You’ll Do
Drive net-new enterprise revenue
Prospect and penetrate organizations with 1,000+ employees, targeting platform, DevOps, and engineering leadership.
Strategically multithread across technical and business stakeholders.
Build account plans, define win strategies, and execute toward large, multi-year agreements.
Own complex, high-value sales cycles end-to-end
Lead discovery, scoping, and qualification using modern enterprise methodologies (MEDDICC, Challenger, etc.).
Collaborate with Solutions Engineering on demos, benchmarking, and POCs.
Navigate procurement, legal, finance, and risk/security assessments.
Drive commercial negotiations to close six- and seven-figure deals.
Create and scale your own pipeline
Build high-quality outbound strategies tailored to enterprise engineering organizations.
Leverage signals around CI workload patterns, cloud cost pressures, and internal shift-left initiatives to identify high-probability targets.
Partner closely with SDR, marketing, and founders to refine outreach and messaging.
Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders
Understand CI architecture, cloud optimization strategies, ephemeral compute, and developer productivity metrics.
Translate performance improvements into enterprise-level ROI and business impact narratives.
Position Blacksmith competitively against hyperscalers, self-hosted runners, and traditional infrastructure alternatives.