Full-Time

Manager – Revenue Operations

Blacksmith

Blacksmith

11-50 employees

High-performance CI/CD runners for GitHub Actions

Compensation Overview

$175k - $225k/yr

+ Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Forecasting
SQL
Tableau
Salesforce
Data Governance
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Requirements
  • 5–8 years experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, GTM Systems, or Strategy. Experience in a high-growth SaaS or infrastructure/devtools company strongly preferred.
  • Hands-on expertise with GTM systems including Salesforce (admin + architecture experience strongly preferred).
  • Sales engagement tooling (e.g., Outreach, Apollo).
  • Marketing automation tools.
  • Forecasting / business intelligence tools (Tableau, Metabase, Hex, Looker, or similar).
  • SQL proficiency or strong analytics fluency is a plus.
  • Strong strategic and analytical instincts.
  • Systems thinking + execution ability.
  • High ownership and comfort with ambiguity.
  • Exceptional communication and leadership presence.
  • Startup DNA.
Responsibilities
  • Own and operate core GTM systems — including Salesforce, sales engagement, marketing automation, and business intelligence tools.
  • Translate GTM requirements into scalable workflows, automations, and processes across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success.
  • Maintain and optimize lead routing, account assignment, opportunity stages, and forecasting frameworks.
  • Build dashboards and analytics that surface insights on pipeline health, funnel conversion, rep productivity, bookings, and forecast accuracy.
  • Identify underperformance or whitespace opportunities across segments and propose clear recommendations.
  • Provide GTM reporting for leadership, investors, and the Board.
  • Support forecasting cadences, quarterly planning, and coverage modeling for two distinct segments with Enterprise AEs.
  • Work with Enterprise Account Executives on deal support, pricing workflows, approval routing, and data accuracy for large evaluations.
  • Collaborate with Solutions Engineering on evaluation tracking and technical win/loss insights.
  • Build and refine segmentation, territory models, and capacity planning frameworks as we scale.
  • Lead programs focused on pipeline generation, pricing strategy, sales productivity, and stage-by-stage conversion improvements.
  • Evaluate and implement new GTM tools to improve efficiency and visibility.
  • Own data accuracy across accounts, contacts, opportunities, and forecasting artifacts.
  • Implement standards, documentation, and processes that keep our GTM systems clean, reliable, and audit-ready.
  • Troubleshoot issues and proactively refine workflows to minimize friction for field teams.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to embed pricing, packaging, and usage signals into GTM processes.
  • Align with Finance on ARR definitions, forecast methodologies, and booking governance.
  • Work directly with Marketing on attribution, lead scoring, and funnel visibility.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience supporting Enterprise and Digital Native segments simultaneously.
  • Prior work with usage-based pricing models, cloud cost data, or technical product signals.
  • Familiarity with developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps workflows.
  • Exposure to compensation modeling, quota design, and coverage models.
  • Experience building Revenue Operations from early stage to scale.

What does the company do? Blacksmith provides a drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners that uses high-performance gaming CPUs to speed up builds and tests, helping teams run CI/CD workflows faster and more cost-effectively. How does it work? It acts as a substitute for standard runners in GitHub Actions, leveraging powerful CPUs in a cloud environment to accelerate compilation, testing, and automation tasks, with pricing based on usage. How is it different from competitors? Its focus on high performance hardware aimed specifically at CI workloads and a usage-based pricing model aims to lower overall CI/CD costs compared to GitHub’s native runners, appealing to teams seeking faster feedback loops and predictable expenses. What is its goal? To help software development teams optimize their CI/CD workflows, reduce build times, and cut operational costs.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$13.6M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Google Ventures led $10M Series A four months post-$3.5M seed.
  • GitHub's 2025 $0.002/minute fee boosts demand for Blacksmith.
  • CI observability and Tinybird integration drive product expansion.

What critics are saying

  • GitHub premium runners undercut 2x speed at half cost in 6-12 months.
  • AWS CodeBuild cuts prices 40% for CI in 3-9 months.
  • Oxide spot-priced fleet undercuts 60% for AI jobs in 9-15 months.

What makes Blacksmith unique

  • Blacksmith uses gaming CPUs and micro VMs for 2x faster GitHub Actions.
  • Drop-in replacement targets cost reduction versus GitHub's native runners.
  • Y Combinator alum founded by ex-Cockroach Labs engineers.

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Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Company Equity

Stock Options

Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-7%

1 year growth

-9%

2 year growth

2%
Tech News Tube
Sep 17th, 2025
Blacksmith secures $10M Series A funding

Google Ventures has increased its investment in Blacksmith, a developer tool startup, just four months after its seed round. Blacksmith, a Y Combinator graduate, secured a $10 million Series A funding round led by Google Ventures to help reduce costs and accelerate software build processes.

TechCrunch
Sep 17th, 2025
Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round | TechCrunch

Blacksmith, a Y Combinator alum, raised $10M Series A led by Google Ventures to cut costs and speed up software builds.

BEAMSTART
Sep 17th, 2025
Google Ventures Fuels Dev Tool Startup Blacksmith with $10M Series A Funding Just Months After Seed Round

Blacksmith, a promising Y Combinator alum, has secured a significant $10 million Series A funding led by Google Ventures, a mere four months after its initial seed round.

AI Insider
May 5th, 2025
Blacksmith Raises $3.5M Led by GV and Y Combinator to Build a High-Performance CI Cloud for the AI Age

Blacksmith raised $3.5M in seed funding, led by GV and Y Combinator, with backing from key tech leaders including Cockroach Labs' Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis.

WN.com
May 1st, 2025
Blacksmith Raises $3.5M for CI Cloud

Blacksmith, a high-performance CI cloud, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by GV and Y Combinator. The company, founded by former Cockroach Labs engineers, aims to compete with major industry players like GitHub and AWS in the AI sector.