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Chief Commercial Officer
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Chief Commercial Officer
Location: UK remote
Compensation: c. £150k – £180k base + double OTE + material equity
Type: Permanent
A deep-tech AI company is hiring its first senior commercial leader to build and scale revenue globally.
This is a founding commercial role for someone who can operate as a true player-coach: opening doors personally, building pipeline from scratch, shaping go-to-market, and helping turn strong technical capability into repeatable commercial traction.
The Company
The business is a research-led AI startup with a strong machine learning foundation and an established technical team.
It has developed an AI-model-focused offering aimed at improving safety, trust, and accuracy.
The company is now at the point where it needs a senior commercial operator to help convert technical credibility into larger enterprise, public sector, and strategic AI opportunities.
The Role
This person will lead commercial expansion and help define the next phase of growth. The focus is on winning high-value customers, shaping market approach, and bringing structure to a founder-led sales motion.
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Responsibilities
- Build and lead the commercial function as the company’s first senior sales hire.
- Personally generate pipeline and win new business through existing network and outbound activity.
- Sell into AI labs, enterprise organisations, public sector / defence stakeholders.
- Help define GTM, pricing approach, and commercial priorities as the product set matures.
- Work closely with founder, product, and technical leadership to translate technical capability into market-ready offerings.
- Communicate effectively with board/investor stakeholders on progress, pipeline, and commercial strategy.
Ideal Profile
We’re looking for someone who is hands-on, credible, and still close to the market, not a purely strategic senior leader from a large, heavily resourced sales organisation.
Likely Background
- Experience as a VP Sales, CRO, CCO, or first commercial leader in a scaling startup or deep-tech business.
- Success selling into enterprise and/or public sector accounts.
- Strong network across some combination of:
- AI / frontier technology
- enterprise software
- public sector / defense
- strategic communications / trust & safety environments.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building without much infrastructure.
- Able to engage credibly with technical stakeholders while driving commercial outcomes.
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What Makes This Interesting
- Founding-level ownership of the commercial function.
- Deeply technical AI product set with strong differentiation claims.
- Opportunity to shape how the business commercialises into major strategic accounts.
How to Apply for the CCO Role?
Deadline for submissions: Monday 24th August 2026
For a confidential chat or to apply, reach out to:
Ben Trapnell – Recruitment Consultant, SR2 Socially Responsible Recruitment
📧 benjamin@sr2rec.co.uk
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