About Blacksmith
We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each month, running CI for 3,000+ companies and hit ~$10M in ARR in less than 2 years. We’ve more than tripled revenue since the start of 2026.
We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
We’ve raised $13.5M across Seed and Series A, led by Google Ventures (GV), and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
We’re now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.
What you’ll own
Product Positioning & Messaging
Translate technical depth into customer value and make complex infrastructure sound simple and compelling.
Partner closely with product and sales to ensure launches, demos, and decks speak the customer’s language.
Launches & GTM
Lead product launches end-to-end, which includes messaging, landing pages, emails, and sales enablement.
Define launch tiers and ensure every release has a crisp narrative and measurable impact.
Collaborate with engineering and founders on demos, blog posts, and social amplification.
Sales Enablement & Collateral
Create collateral that converts, like case studies, one-pagers, decks, and battlecards.
Build a central source of truth for customer references and success stories.
Support the sales team with concise talk tracks, objection handling, and value messaging.
Content & Thought Leadership
Translate customer problems into stories that resonate.
Write blog posts, guides, and docs that educate rather than sell, especially content that speaks to developers.
Partner with design and brand on visual storytelling that raises our aesthetic bar.
Clarity: You can make a deeply technical concept understandable without dumbing it down.
Taste: You care about quality, all the way from slide design to headline phrasing.
Curiosity: You ask good questions and listen deeply to customers.
Bias to action: You ship fast, iterate, and learn.
Collaboration: You work fluidly with founders, engineers, and designers.
Technical empathy: You don’t need to code, but you understand how developers think.
Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
Competitive base + equity.
Unlimited PTO.
Annual offsite.
Early-exercise stock options
12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
Skills Required
- Translate technical product capabilities into clear customer value and messaging
- Lead end-to-end product launches including messaging, landing pages, emails, and sales enablement
- Create high-converting sales collateral: case studies, one-pagers, decks, and battlecards
- Support sales with talk tracks, objection handling, and value messaging
- Write developer-focused content: blog posts, guides, and technical docs
- Collaborate closely with founders, engineers, product, design, and sales
- Strong taste for design and messaging quality (slide design, headlines, visual storytelling)
- Technical empathy and understanding of developer workflows and infrastructure concepts
Blacksmith Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match up to 5% (100% on the first 3%, 50% on the next 2%) is explicitly offered. This is highlighted as notably strong for a growth‑stage startup.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are provided with the ability to early‑exercise for potential tax advantages. Equity is positioned as a core component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO, paid family leave, and a guaranteed birthday off are advertised. These policies indicate broad time‑off flexibility with added celebratory perks.
Blacksmith Insights
What We Do
Blacksmith is the fastest way to run your GitHub Action workflows. We orchestrate your workflows over our fleet of bare-metal gaming CPUs with your build caches co-located right next to your CI jobs. All it takes is a one-line code change. Get started with Blacksmith https://docs.blacksmith.sh/getting-started/quickstart
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