Private Equity Tech Sales - Founding Team Member for AI Startup

Nestbox AI is on a mission to help finance companies likeprivate equity firms infuse AI across their portfolios—unlocking new value creation and competitive advantage. We’ve built a next-generation AI platform that combinesstrategic advisorywithturnkey execution, delivering custom intelligent solutions for portfolio companies in months, not years. Our intelligent agents don’t just assist—they think, optimize, and execute to transform how businesses operate across sales, operations, finance, and beyond. Now we’re looking for afounding sales leaderwho can rapidly bring this capability to PE firms quickly. Why This Role is Unique • Founder-Level Impact:You’ll be the first sales hire, working directly with our technical founders to shape GTM strategy, refine our offering for PE, and have a voice in every major decision. • Category-Defining Offering:While others stop at AI strategy slides, we deliver both the roadmapandthe working solutions. You’ll sell something PE firms actually need—and can deploy in their portfolios immediately. What You’ll Do • Design and execute Nestbox’sprivate equity go-to-marketstrategy from scratch. • Use yourexisting PE networkto secure meetings with managing partners, operating partners, and portfolio company CEOs. • Own the full sales cycle—from first conversation to signed engagement. • Identify high-value AI use cases for PE-backed companies and position Nestbox as the execution partner of choice. • Partner with our founders to shape product-market fit for the PE segment. • Build sales collateral, playbooks, and repeatable processes for scaling our PE vertical. You Might Be a Fit If… • Youalready know and can reachsenior leaders (Operating Partners, CIOs, CTOs, CEOs) at multiple private equity firms. • You’ve sold complex B2B solutions to financial services or enterprise clients—bonus for AI, automation, or transformation projects. • You understandthe PE operating modeland can speak to both investment thesis and value creation. • You thrive in a zero-to-one environment and want equity, ownership, and the chance to define a category. Location We’re building betweenToronto, Chicago, and New York, and want someone who can workin-person to deepen PE relationshipsin their metro area. Perks & Details • Founding equity potential+ base/commission. • Full input into roadmap, messaging, pricing, and positioning. • Access to the most advanced AI agent technology on the market. • Work alongside technical founders with deep AI expertise. Job Type: Full-time Pay: $40,000.00 - $105,100.55 per year Benefits: • Paid training Application Question(s): • What is your current situation? What do you dream of doing 5 years from today? • We are looking for a founding B2B sales leader with an existing network of private equity decision makers. Please tell us about your private equity network and how you built it. • What do you envision doing in your first 30 days with us to onboard private equity companies? Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chicago, IL