VP of Sales

Location: Palo Alto, CA (in-person) · Type: Full-time · Reports to: CEO

About Nace AI

At Nace AI, we are redefining how professional services operate by delivering Sovereign Specialized Intelligence. As an applied research and product company, we equip enterprises with a comprehensive AI stack to build customized, secure intelligence tailored to their unique business needs.

Driven by advanced Small Language Models and our dynamic metamodel framework, our flagship platforms - Nace Data Intelligence and the Nace SLM Cloud - enable true end-to-end business process automation. The result is transformative ROI: professional services firms using Nace AI are currently recovering 1,000 hours per client engagement, drastically reducing overhead and accelerating delivery.

The work we are doing has a meaningful impact across industries, and every hire at Nace AI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s trajectory. This is a unique opportunity to join a high conviction AI company at an early stage and directly influence its growth.

If building a world-class AI team from the ground up excites you, we’d love to talk.

The Role

This is a founding role and the most senior sales position at Nace AI. You will own revenue end to end: strategy, pipeline, pricing, deals, and — as we scale — the team. You'll work directly with our CEO and leadership to define how Nace goes to market and to turn early traction into a repeatable, category-defining sales motion.

We are not hiring someone to run a playbook. We are hiring someone to write it.

What You'll Do

Own the company's revenue number and build the go-to-market plan to hit it

Personally lead and close enterprise deals with CPA firms, law firms, audit and compliance organizations, and the technology partners that serve them

Open doors through your own network and convert relationships into a real, forecastable pipeline

Define our ideal customer profile, pricing, and packaging in partnership with product and leadership

Build the sales function from scratch: hiring, onboarding, process, tooling, and comp design

Bring the voice of the customer back into the company and shape the roadmap with what you hear in the field

Set the culture and standards of a sales org that will grow behind you

Who You Are

A proven closer. You have a track record of hitting and exceeding aggressive enterprise sales targets. We're especially interested if you've put up great numbers selling a product that wasn't the easiest one on the market — that tells us you win on skill, not tailwinds.

You think big. Your ambition isn't capped at $1–20M ARR. You've either helped build a business well past that scale, or you have a credible, concrete view of how to get there and what it takes.

Deeply networked in professional services. You know the partners, practice leaders, and decision-makers at CPA, legal, audit, and compliance firms — and the developers and technology partners in that ecosystem — and they know you.

A builder, not a maintainer. You've operated at an early stage (or built a new business line inside a larger company) and know what it takes to go from zero to a functioning revenue engine.

Comfortable with complexity. You can sell a technical, evolving AI product to sophisticated, risk-aware buyers and hold your own in rooms with partners, CFOs, and heads of compliance.

Hands-on and accountable. You lead from the front, own the outcome, and don't wait for someone else to fix the pipeline.

Nice to Have

Direct experience selling software or services into accounting, audit, legal, or regulatory compliance

Experience selling AI, data, or workflow automation products to enterprise buyers

Prior experience as a first or founding sales hire

What We Offer

The most senior commercial seat at a well-funded, fast-growing AI company

Direct partnership with the founders and leadership team

Meaningful equity and competitive compensation

The chance to define a category in one of the largest and least-automated professional service markets in the world