Hammerhead AI

Hammerhead AI

Business Development Lead - AI Infrastructure

Redwood City

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 86 days ago
Business DevelopmentCommunication

About the role

  • This is a hands-on, 0-to-1 role with significant influence over strategy, positioning, and early revenue.

Responsibilities

  • Shape Hammerhead's commercial strategy and build a prioritized go-to-market plan.
  • Build and own the pipeline from initial conversation through technical discovery, solution design, proposal, and commercial close.
  • Help build the GTM playbook: sales collateral, case studies, competitive positioning, and objection handling frameworks.
  • Build from 0→1.
  • Influence strategy, GTM, org design, and customer engagement from day one.
  • 🤝 Collaborate with colleagues that are experts in modern RL and AI, IoT and IIoT software, and infrastructure technologies
  • 🌎 Contribute to building a more efficient and sustainable future for AI compute.
  • 🚀 Join a company at the cutting edge of modern data center design and operation

Requirements

  • Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder technical buying processes across infrastructure, platform, and business teams.
  • Ability to toggle between strategic planning and hands-on execution.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
  • Familiarity with data center economics: power contracts, infrastructure financing, PPA structures, and colocation pricing models.
  • Experience at a hyper-growth startup (Seed to Series B stage) in AI infrastructure, data center, or energy technology.
  • MBA or Master's degree in a technical or business discipline.
  • 7-10+ years of experience in technology and infrastructure focused business development, partnerships, or strategic sales, with a strong concentration on the infrastructure side of compute (cloud, data center, GPU/accelerator ecosystem).
  • Ability to toggle between strategic planning and hands-on execution. You are comfortable building from scratch in an early-stage environment with no existing playbook.
  • Excellent communication skills with both deeply technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

  • Experience with power-constrained infrastructure, grid interconnection, or energy-aware compute scheduling.
  • Prior work with hyperscalers, GPU cloud providers, neoclouds, and other inference infrastructure providers, or large-scale AI platforms.

Skills

  • sales collateral, case studies, competitive positioning, and objection handling frameworks.

Compensation

  • 💰 Receive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits in a high-growth, mission-driven environment.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay + equity.
  • Stock options let you share in the value you help create.
  • Comprehensive benefits.
  • Medical, dental, and vision.
  • 💰 Receive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits in a high-growth, mission-driven environment.

Company info

  • We are seeking a Business Development Lead to enable high-value AI compute use cases.

Equal opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

This listing is sourced directly from Hammerhead AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.