Full-Time

Sales Development Representative

Updated on 9/4/2026

Archera

Archera

51-200 employees

Cloud cost optimization and forecasting platform

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Salesforce

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Requirements
  • 1+ year of experience in a sales, business development, or customer-facing role (SDR/BDR experience preferred)
  • Familiarity with modern sales tools (e.g., Salesforce, Apollo, Outreach, Salesloft)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to personalize messaging at scale
  • High level of coachability, resilience, and curiosity—able to take feedback and iterate quickly
  • Demonstrated interest in technology, cloud, or FinOps
Responsibilities
  • Build and prioritize target account lists, conducting thoughtful research to understand each prospect’s cloud environment, business model, and potential pain points
  • Execute high-volume, high-quality outbound outreach across email, phone, LinkedIn, and other channels with a focus on personalization and relevance
  • Map accounts and identify key stakeholders across engineering, FinOps, and finance organizations
  • Qualify inbound and outbound leads, setting high-quality discovery meetings for Account Executives while effectively disqualifying non-ICP opportunities
  • Collaborate closely with Account Executives on account strategy, messaging, and pipeline development
  • Maintain and iterate on outbound messaging and nurture campaigns based on performance and feedback
  • Track activity and pipeline metrics in Salesforce and other sales tools, maintaining strong data hygiene
  • Continuously refine outreach strategies through testing, learning, and feedback loops
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in SaaS or cloud ecosystem is a plus

Archera provides a cloud management platform (SaaS) that helps businesses control and optimize cloud costs. It combines commitment management, forecasting, and planning with automated purchasing and ongoing spend management to improve resource allocation across cloud services. The platform offers cost allocation, forecasting, benchmarking, and spend automation to identify overspend, predict future needs, and guide optimization decisions. Unlike some providers that offer point tools, Archera delivers an integrated suite for FinOps-style cost control, focusing on automating cloud purchasing and management to reduce waste. The company’s goal is to help organizations gain visibility into cloud spend, forecast demand accurately, and implement effective cost-saving strategies across their cloud infrastructure.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$22.4M

Headquarters

Bellevue, Washington

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • Archera launched Google Cloud support August 5, 2026, broadening its addressable market.
  • The company reported 500% year-over-year revenue run-rate growth and 400-plus customers.
  • Archera secured $17 million Series B and $100 million lending capacity for expansion.

What critics are saying

  • Google Cloud Marketplace and native commitment tools compress Archera's pricing advantage by 2027.
  • A low-margin underwriting mistake on AI GPU commitments can trigger large reinsurance losses quickly.
  • If customers distrust Archera's guarantees, the platform becomes a commodity FinOps dashboard.

What makes Archera unique

  • Archera insures AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud commitments with 30-day terms.
  • Google Cloud GCUDs launched August 5, 2026, extending coverage across all three clouds.
  • Its marketplace integrations let customers buy discounts directly through AWS and Google Cloud Marketplaces.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401(k) Company Match

Phone/Internet Stipend

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
PR Newswire
Aug 5th, 2026
Archera launches guaranteed commitments for Google Cloud with 30-day terms and zero risk

Archera has launched support for Google Cloud, extending its Guaranteed Commitments service across all three major cloud providers. The Bellevue-based cloud cost optimisation platform now offers Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts (GCUDs) for Google Cloud customers. GCUDs allow users to access committed-use discount savings with terms as short as 30 days, without the typical one- to three-year lock-in required by native Google Cloud commitments. Archera guarantees against overcommitment by rebating costs for unused capacity if usage falls short. The service covers key Google Cloud services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. Customers purchase directly through Google Cloud Marketplace whilst Archera manages the commitment guarantees. The platform is free to install, with costs for guarantee services fixed below the savings achieved.

FF News
Jul 25th, 2024
Archera Announces Series B Funding And $100 Million Reinsurance And Lending Capacity To Transform Cloud Purchasing And Management

Archera, a leading provider of cloud purchasing and management solutions, announced today closing a $17 million Series B round accompanied by access to over $100 million in reinsurance capacity. This empowers the company to pioneer insurance and financing solutionsthat enable flexible and cost-effective cloud resource procurement.Built for cloud engineering, DevOps, and FinOps and finance teams that need to efficiently purchase and manage cloud resources, Archera’s free management platform and unique commitment insurance and financing products bring flexibility, control, and automation to the process of buying public cloud resources—enabling teams to reduce the risk of overcommitment while optimizing rates.Archera provides cloud discount automation and FinOps visibility at no cost, enabling customers to save millions without any fees. Unlike other FinOps solutions, Archera generates revenue solely through unique products that transparently extend vendor-native solutions,creating new, automatable savings strategies. Archera’s current offerings include:Free Cloud Management Platform: Comprehensive management for Savings Plans Reserved Instances, and Committed Use Discounts, cost and usage visibility, and long-term forecasting and assessments.Insured Commitments: Save on all reservable AWS and Azure services with commitment terms as brief as 30 days.“Effective cloud management involves more than just cost oversight and automation of existing cost savings tools from cloud vendors like AWS,” said Aran Khanna, CEO of Archera. “It requires new primitives that solve the financial uncertainties of committing to cloud resources. At Archera, we redefine cloud cost management by introducing unique commitment insurance and financing solutions, easily accessed through a completely-free FinOps platform

Finextra
Jul 25th, 2024
Archera secures $17M Series B funding

Archera, a cloud purchasing and management solutions provider, announced closing a $17 million Series B round and access to over $100 million in reinsurance capacity. This funding will help Archera pioneer insurance and financing solutions for flexible and cost-effective cloud resource procurement. Archera's free management platform and unique commitment insurance products aim to reduce overcommitment risks and optimize rates for cloud resources.

GeekWire
Jul 25th, 2024
Archera Raises $17M To Help Companies Get Cloud Discounts Without Long-Term Commitments

GeekWire’s in-depth startup coverage tells the stories of the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene.Archera co-founders — and brothers — Aran Khanna (left) and Nikhil Khanna. (Archera Photos)Archera, a Seattle-based startup that sells tools to help companies reduce cloud computing expenses, raised $17 million in a Series B investment round.Founded in 2019 by brothers Aran Khanna and Nikhil Khanna, Archera offers a free product that crunches a company’s cloud-related finances to identify ways to save costs and take advantage of promotional credits.The startup generates revenue via a separate offering called “Insured Commitments.” Companies will often sign long-term commitments with cloud computing providers to receive discounts. But it can be difficult to predict how many resources are needed, and for how long.Archera provides a middle ground by selling insurance-backed guarantees. The company will pay the cost of any remaining unused resources for customers that have the guarantees.The idea is to help companies reduce the risk of overcommitting to cloud computing capacity for projects such as migrations or infrastructure transitions.“Archera makes money by taking in more in premiums than we pay for customers unused commitments,” Aran Khanna told GeekWire.Khanna said customers use the guarantees for generative AI-related projects “to hedge the technical risk associated with committing to a set of GPU machines for training and inference long-term.”Archera announced that it secured $100 million in lending capacity to expand underwriting capabilities.The startup has a “co-sell” partnership with Amazon Web Services and plans to establish similar deals with Microsoft and Google.The 22-person company said it has increased its revenue run rate by 500% year-over-year. It has more than 400 customers.HighSage Ventures led the Series B round, which included participation from Ridge Ventures, Amplify Partners, and PSL Ventures. Total equity funding to date is $27.5 million.Aran, a finalist for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2021 GeekWire Awards, previously co-founded a retail startup called Glia Intelligence with Nikhil

The Business Journals
Jun 10th, 2024
Cloud cost management startup Archera raises $12.1 million

The company raised a $7 million Series A round in 2021.