About the role
What we’re building
Enterprise marketing still runs through agencies because launching one campaign means coordinating specialists across Marketo, HubSpot, Meta, LinkedIn, CMSs, and a dozen other systems. It takes weeks.
CharacterQuilt uses computer-use agents to do that work inside the software companies already use. A campaign that took three months can now ship in two days. We were among the fastest-growing companies in YC Spring 2026 - $1.5M to $3.5M in revenue during the batch alone - and just raised a $13M seed round.
The story: we built a Clay replacement, then ran an agency for 12 months. That's why the agents actually work - we did every one of these jobs by hand first. Customers like Follett ($2B company) and Asana ($2B company) are genuinely launching campaigns in 1 day instead of 1 month.
Bhairav, my co-founder, did AI research at NASA, NVIDIA, and MIT. When a customer buys CQ, they're buying forward-deployed engineering in their marketing team. My background is SDR, then AE, then product marketing, then demand gen - I've done all the GTM jobs.
The role
You'll be one of two founding sales hires - we're hiring both at the same time, one for each coast. You'll close deals with me (Clint).
If you've sold to marketers before - martech, ABM tools, marketing automation - that's a big bonus, because our buyer is the CMO and you'll ramp faster speaking their language. But we'll teach you the domain.
This is not an SDR role. Every great AE generates some of their own meetings, but we have a full marketing engine - dinners, outbound, demand gen - that generates plenty of pipeline. Your job is to close it. And you're working for a founder who has actually done the SDR job and the AE job, not one who thinks sales is a vending machine.
I want this person to make $1M in their first year with us :). And beyond the money, you'd learn absolutely everything about AI in marketing by working with Bhairav and me - and selling what every CMO is trying to figure out right now.
