What the role involves
About Chasi
Every building, road, warehouse, and farm runs on equipment like tractors, cranes, forklifts, etc. Over 100K dealers and rental companies across North America keep those machines bought, sold, rented, and serviced, but most still operate on phone calls, paper, and decades-old software, with fewer people to do the work every year.
Chasi is building the future of equipment commerce. We help dealers and rental companies sell faster, respond to customers around the clock, and keep machines in the field instead of sitting in a shop or a yard. This is one of the biggest opportunities to bring real-world AI to an industry that software has barely touched. We're based in San Francisco, backed by YCombinator and other top investors, and already working with CAT, John Deere, Bobcat, and other top OEM dealers.
The Role
First go-to-market hire. You own revenue - finding customers and closing them. Outbound, inbound, conferences, demos, contracts. You'll write the playbook while you're running it. As we grow, this becomes a GTM leadership role.
What You'll Do
Become an expert in how equipment dealers and rental companies operate - so you're a consultant, not a salesperson
Find customers through LinkedIn, email, cold calls, trade shows, and conferences
Run the full cycle - first calls, demos, negotiation, close
Help build a repeatable sales process from scratch
Work with founders to sharpen positioning based on what you're hearing in the market
What We're Looking For
No specific industry or years-of-experience requirement. What matters:
You're resourceful and competitive - you figure things out, move fast, and don't wait to be told what to do
You communicate clearly whether you're on the phone with a shop manager in Texas or in a boardroom in New York
You're fun to work with, you want to build and lead a team, and you'll put in the work to get there
Comp & Details
Base salary + uncapped commission
Early-stage equity
In-person, San Francisco
Reports directly to the founder
Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $80,000 – $140,000 per year.
About Chasi
Chasi deploys AI agents that help equipment dealers sell more, respond faster, and maximize fleet utilization - 24/7. One-third of the cost to build and maintain the physical world goes to equipment, yet fleet utilization across the industry often sits below 60%. Billions in assets sit idle while dealers drown in phone calls, emails, and manual data entry. Missed quotes, slow follow-ups, and disconnected systems mean lost revenue every day. Chasi plugs into a dealer's existing stack to deploy AI agents that handle sales, rentals, and service requests around the clock. The result: faster response times, higher utilization, and stronger margins, without adding headcount. We automate the busywork so teams can focus on what actually grows the business: customer relationships. Akash Pavan and Sarman Aulakh have built tractors, race cars, and robots, and previously led AI deployments at Tesla, Boeing, and Cummins, where they saw firsthand how much operational value gets left on the table in equipment-heavy industries. Chasi is live across equipment businesses in the US and Europe.
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