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Artisan

AI sales agents automate B2B outbound

Founding Growth Marketer

Full-Time
$120k - $190k/yr+ 0.10%–0.15% Equity
Junior
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Growth & MarketingGrowth Marketing
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • At least two years of hands-on growth or performance marketing experience at a B2B SaaS company.
  • Demonstrated depth in at least two of SEO/AEO, paid acquisition, and lifecycle email, with the ability to explain personally run campaigns and their results.
  • Experience owning launches from planning through execution, doing the work directly, and coordinating partners when needed.
  • Ability to retrieve and analyze channel and funnel performance data, and distinguish promising results from misleading metrics.
  • Ability to turn creative ideas into clear copy, effective campaigns, and practical tests.
  • Ability to prioritize an ambiguous backlog, communicate directly, and take responsibility when work misses the mark.
  • Applicants should be prepared to explain a growth program they personally owned, including its starting point, changes made, and results.
Responsibilities
  • Build SEO and AEO into dependable acquisition channels by understanding buyer searches, publishing useful content, and measuring its impact on attracting relevant prospects.
  • Run paid search and paid social campaigns, including creative, targeting, launch, testing, and performance reporting.
  • Own lifecycle email for trial nurture, onboarding, and expansion, matching messages to customer needs.
  • Improve the company website with design and front-end partners by building landing pages, launch pages, and experiments to improve conversion from first visit to booked demo.
  • Run product and feature launches across the website, email, paid channels, and launch day, coordinating the work and maintaining clear messaging.
  • Evaluate and execute podcast, newsletter, and event sponsorships; track spend and results to determine whether to repeat them.
  • Build channel reporting, use it to make investment decisions, stop weak experiments, investigate unexpected results, and expand effective efforts.
  • Turn brand concepts and major creative campaigns into shipped work and build acquisition and lifecycle programs around them.
Desired Qualifications
  • Links to campaigns, pages, or content are welcome; confidential metrics may be discussed without disclosing proprietary material.

About the company

Artisan helps large businesses boost their outbound sales by using AI agents to automate repetitive GTM tasks. Its platform centers on Ava, an AI-powered sales agent, plus a family of specialized AI agents called Artisans that can identify potential customers, craft and send outreach messages, and ensure messages avoid spam filters. The system works as a SaaS platform that enterprises hire to run outbound sales workflows, replacing manual steps and traditional software stacks with digital employees. Artisan differentiates itself by offering an all-in-one, customizable platform that consolidates GTM tools and processes, enabling a scalable, enterprise-grade outbound operation. The company’s goal is to improve outbound sales results for B2B teams by letting human sellers focus on high-value activities while AI handles the routine tasks.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$46.9M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • May 2026 launch opened self-serve signup and slashed entry pricing roughly tenfold.
  • Artisan says thousands of enterprise AEs and BDRs now use Ava 2.0.
  • January 2026 LinkedIn reinstatement removed a major distribution and reputation block.

What critics are saying

  • LinkedIn already restricted Artisan once over scraping; another enforcement cycle can choke prospecting.
  • August 2026 slogan reversal signals weak full-replacement demand and slower enterprise conversion.
  • If data access or deliverability fails, Ava becomes a commodity workflow layer by 2027.

What makes Artisan unique

  • May 2026: Ava 2.0 runs outbound end-to-end, from research to booked meetings.
  • Artisan bundles database, sequencing, dialing, deliverability, and analytics into one AI BDR platform.
  • August 2026: Artisan retired "Stop hiring humans" and paired Ava with human BDRs.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Stock Options

Company News

TechCrunch
Apr 23rd, 2026
Artisan's CEO on hiring mistakes: 100+ hires to build a 40-person team

Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack shared hard-won hiring lessons on the Build Mode podcast, revealing the startup has hired over 100 people to build its current 40-person team. The AI sales automation company, known for its provocative "Stop Hiring Humans" campaign, learned crucial lessons about team building the hard way. Carmichael-Jack outlined key mistakes: overhiring too quickly, prioritising big tech logos over startup aptitude, hiring at the wrong seniority level, and being too slow to fire underperformers. He stressed that early-stage employees should have no downtime, and impressive CVs from tech giants don't guarantee startup success. The founder emphasised that hiring is strategic, not merely operational. Wrong hires reshape culture and make future recruiting harder, whilst right hires compound value quickly.

TechCrunch
Jan 7th, 2026
LinkedIn reinstates AI agent startup Artisan after two-week ban over data scraping concerns

Artisan AI, a Y Combinator graduate known for its controversial "Stop hiring humans" billboards, was banned from LinkedIn but has now been reinstated after resolving issues with the platform. The startup's LinkedIn page, employee profiles and executive posts were displaying error messages. CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack confirmed the ban to TechCrunch, explaining that LinkedIn objected to the company using LinkedIn's name on its website and alleged use of data brokers who had scraped the site without permission, violating LinkedIn's terms of service. Contrary to viral rumours, the ban was not due to its AI agents spamming users. Artisan offers Ava, an AI agent for outbound sales that finds and contacts potential customers. After working with LinkedIn for two weeks to address concerns, the company's presence on the platform has been restored.

Exame
Dec 19th, 2025
Under-30 founders raise $120M to automate sales prospecting with AI

Artisan, a startup founded by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, 23, and Sam Stallings, 30, has raised R$120 million (US$25 million) to automate sales prospection tasks using artificial intelligence. The company attracted attention with its provocative "Stop Hiring Humans" slogan, though founders clarify the AI is designed to enhance, not replace, human salespeople. Artisan's flagship product, Ava, uses AI to automate prospection by sending personalised emails and qualifying leads, allowing sales teams to focus on strategic tasks. The company currently serves 250 clients and generates R$25 million in annual revenue. Despite the controversial marketing campaign featuring billboards in San Francisco, the founders emphasise their technology aims to empower sales professionals by handling repetitive tasks rather than eliminating jobs.

Artisan
Apr 10th, 2025
Artisan Raises $25M Series A

Artisan has raised a $25M Series A to build AI employees that replace repetitive work and consolidate the SaaS stack. Starting with outbound sales, our AI BDR Ava automates prospecting, messaging, and booking meetings.

Tech News Tube
Apr 9th, 2025
Artisan AI Startup Raises $25M

Artisan, an AI sales agent startup founded by 24-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Glade Brook Capital. Despite its focus on AI, the company is still hiring humans.