# Account Manager at Modal

> Remote · United States · Unspecified · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Amodal%3Ad33a46c8-44d8-4bf4-bdca-dd11c0a48588 (read 2026-11-05).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Modal](https://alderhq.app/companies/modal)
- Location text: San Francisco; New York
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · United States (evidence: "Remote role open worldwide")
- Posted: 2026-09-16 (50 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/d33a46c8-44d8-4bf4-bdca-dd11c0a48588
- Skills listed (inferred): Docker

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $300k–$300k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 2018): p25 $100k, median $155k, p75 $210k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 1 ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Us

AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.

Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.

Our customers include category-defining companies like Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.

We've passed $1B in annualized run rate, up 15x from a year ago. In October 2026 we raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation.

Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.

### About the Role

We're hiring the first Account Managers at Modal. You'll report to the Regional Director of Account Management and be a founding member of the team.

This function does not exist yet. There is no playbook, no territory map, no established motion. You'll own a book of business from day one and build the motion at the same time — from fast-moving AI startups to large enterprise teams running critical infrastructure on Modal.

This is a commercial role with a revenue target. You'll be measured on retention and expansion across your accounts. While you won't be delivering the technical recommendations and implementation, the work is technical by nature. Our customers are engineers running GPU workloads, inference, and batch jobs in production, and you need to hold your own in those conversations.

The profile we're hiring is a technical account manager. You've worked at companies that are deeply technical and consumption in nature. You bring the commercial instincts to grow revenue from an existing base and enough technical depth to know which conversation actually matters. And you can credibly work with a CxO all the way down to a Developer.

### What the Role Is

A founding seat. You're helping build the AM function with us, not joining one that already runs. The account plans, expansion motions, and customer cadence you and the rest of the founding team figure out are what we scale to every AM we hire after you.

A technical customer-facing role. You'll work directly with Developers and ML teams on what they're building and how Modal fits. You translate and triage the deeper technical work to FDEs and Product when it's needed.

A book of business. You’ll own a set of accounts and be responsible for the revenue that comes from them. Expect to be meeting with customers in your first few days because the best playbooks are built from real experiences.

### What the Role Is Not

A traditional post-sales role. You're measured on revenue, not health scores.

An on-call support function. You're not fixing bugs or triaging tickets. You're driving growth.

A technical delivery role. You're not implementing for the customer. You know where the technical work goes and you pull in the right people.

An inherited motion. Nothing is handed to you. If you identify gaps in process, tooling, or a playbook — you help build it.

A single-lane job. Our priorities go customer → company → team → me. We focus on delivering maximum impact vs. "this is my job".

### What You'll Achieve

Build Modal's account management function and iterate on it as we scale the business

Own and deliver on a revenue target across your book of accounts

Grow an account's first use case, expand into a second, and drive standardization across the Modal platform

Get fluent enough in Modal to hold your own with engineering teams on their workloads, and know when to pull in FDEs, Support, or Product

Work with Sales, Solutions Architects, FDEs, Support, and Product to grow accounts and feed customer signal back into the roadmap

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