Iris.ai is a pioneering AI-first company on a mission to radically transform how humans discover, navigate, and apply knowledge. For over a decade, we’ve built intelligent systems that empower researchers, AI developers, engineers, and product teams to innovate faster, deeper, and with greater precision.

Our product suite (Neuralith, Axion, and RSpace) offers AI-powered development platforms designed to streamline the development processes, from data connection and orchestration to evaluation and deployment in one cohesive platform. Our diverse customer base spans across industries, research institutions, and innovation labs. This unique position enables us to bring the latest breakthroughs in AI research directly into real-world applications, solving pressing market challenges and driving tangible impact in the new era of Artificial Intelligence.

We’re a European Innovation Council (EIC) backed B2B scaleup company with teams spread across Europe, driven by curiosity, scientific rigor with deep-tech product excellence, we are on a mission to transform the way data professionals, AI innovators, and product R&D operate across different industries. Now, we’re seeking a UK-based sales leader to help us scale our next phase of growth.

Opportunity:

We’re looking for a high-performing Senior AI Sales & Business Development Executive to help execute Iris.ai’s global go-to-market strategy. This is a strategic hunter role ideal for someone passionate about navigating complex sales cycles — from initial outreach through to successful implementation.

You’ll collaborate closely with Iris.ai’s leadership, marketing, and product teams to identify and engage high-potential enterprise clients across AI, data, and R&D domains. Your focus will be on managing and nurturing opportunities, building strong relationships, and closing 6–7 figure deals across multiple regions and industries.

You will play a key role in guiding prospects through the entire customer journey, working alongside pre-sales engineering to ensure seamless solution delivery — from early qualification to deployment.

Your mission?

Support Iris.ai’s next phase of global growth by unlocking strategic accounts, accelerating enterprise adoption, and helping transition our sales motion from founder-led to scalable, repeatable processes.

What You’ll Own:

• Full sales cycle ownership – From qualified lead to contract signing to post-sale success
• Strategic prospecting - Engage with senior AI leadership and/or C-suite at target organizations through a consultative approach, understanding their strategic priorities and identifying high-value AI use cases
• Relationship building – Develop long-term trust with key stakeholders across Engineering, Product, innovation, and business teams.
• Revenue leadership – Hit and exceed quarterly/annual targets for the region. Drive new logo acquisition and account expansions.
• Go-to-market execution – Shape sales playbooks, campaign priorities, partnership model with support demand-gen and marketing teams.
• Sales Engagement - Lead complex proposal development, solution presentations, and commercial negotiations in collaboration with the pre-sales engineering team.
• Sales ops excellence – Maintain CRM hygiene, monitor pipeline health, and leverage data to optimize conversions.
• Market intelligence – Feed insights back to marketing and product to sharpen ICP definition and value messaging.

Your Profile:

• Proven track record in enterprise SaaS sales: ideally within AI, data platforms, engineering tools, or technical deep-tech products.
• You’re a hunter at heart—driven by new business, with a relentless, strategic approach to closing, while understanding various farming techniques.
• You know how to build trust with technical buyers and communicate complex value propositions simply and persuasively.
• Familiarity with AI (100–200 level) is ideal, bonus points if you’ve sold to data science, machine learning, cloud, data or platform engineering teams.
• Comfortable working across fast-moving scaleups—you embrac