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MAI

AI agents running Google and Meta ad campaigns

Founding Client Partner

Full-Time
$100k - $150k/yr+ Equity + OTE: $200,000–$250,000
Mid
Mountain View, CA, USA
Hybrid
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • Have 3–5 years of full-cycle sales experience and a proven record of exceeding quota.
  • Have experience selling advertising, AdTech, or Marketing SaaS to mid-market or growth-stage eCommerce customers.
  • Have a background as a Senior Client Partner at a high-growth technology company.
  • Understand sales principles and playbooks and be able to adapt and iterate them in a fast-moving environment.
  • Use metrics to inform strategy and drive decision-making.
  • Have problem-solving and prioritization skills, and be able to work under pressure and deadlines.
  • Be capable of mentoring others as the team scales.
Responsibilities
  • Own the full sales cycle from prospecting through closing and expansion.
  • Generate at least 75% of the pipeline through strategic outbound prospecting and identifying intent signals to position MAI to eCommerce brands.
  • Develop domain expertise in performance marketing and AI agents through product training and direct client engagement, understanding how AI optimizes campaigns, budgets, and return on ad spend.
  • Advise marketers by understanding their approach to growth and profitability and guiding their use of AI to expand capabilities and free resources for strategic objectives.
  • Collaborate with product, operations, and marketing to share customer feedback, influence roadmap priorities, and co-develop scalable go-to-market processes.
  • Maintain CRM records of learnings, activities, and performance data to improve targeting and efficiency.

About the company

MAI builds AI agents that run paid advertising end to end for brands that want growth without adding marketing headcount. The agents draft media plans, launch campaigns across Google, Meta, and other platforms, set targeting and budgets, watch performance, flag problems, and tune toward a chosen objective such as ROAS, margin ROAS, or volume. They also shift budget between channels, run incrementality tests, and produce reporting a marketer would otherwise assemble by hand. Unlike an agency retainer or a dashboard that only recommends changes, the agents execute inside the ad accounts, with client partners supervising the work. The company's goal is to give small teams the performance marketing capability of a large in-house department by automating the daily operating work.

Company Size

N/A

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$25M

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

N/A

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • MAI says it doubled customers since late 2024 and manages millions in monthly ad spend.
  • September 2025 customers like Dreo, DrWoof, Patpat, and Vivaia reported up to 40% sales lifts.
  • Its blog and product pages updated in September 2026 signal active shipping and go-to-market momentum.

What critics are saying

  • Google, Meta, and TikTok shipped native AI ad automation in 2026, compressing MAI's moat.
  • MAI depends on platform APIs; policy changes can break optimization workflows overnight.
  • If ad platforms expose end-to-end agents by 2027, MAI becomes a feature, not a company.

What makes MAI unique

  • Former Google and Instacart engineers built MAI for small and mid-sized advertisers.
  • MAI automates Google Ads with agents integrating commerce, CRM, analytics, and spend data.
  • September 30, 2025 funding from Kleiner Perkins validates agentic performance marketing demand.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Company Equity

Company News

FinSMEs
Oct 1st, 2025
MAI Raises $25M in Seed Funding

MAI raises $25M in Seed funding.

PR Newswire
Sep 30th, 2025
MAI Raises $25M to Automate Performance Marketing with AI Agents, Driving Revenue for Brands

/PRNewswire/ -- MAI, the AI platform that drives revenue by automating and optimizing performance marketing, today announced the launch of its flagship product...

MAI
Sep 30th, 2025
MAI Raises $25M to Automate Performance Marketing with AI Agents, Driving Revenue for Brands

My co-founder Jian and I have spent most of our careers in tech and e-commerce at companies like Google and Instacart, seeing digital advertising from both the platform and brand side. We know firsthand how hard it is for companies to generate real returns from ads.