Darnell Jerome Brown

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Co-founder & CTO at Saffron AI | ex-Accenture

Saffron AI
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
11+ years experience
Booth School of Business
English
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Overview

Founder of Saffron AI (supply chain software). 13 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small supply chain software company. Before that: Accenture and Bain & Company.

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SaaSlogisticsoperationsenterprise sales
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Saffron AI is hiring 5 founding engineers in San Francisco

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$150k-$196k
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with operations Production experience with logistics Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $196k-$291k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Mar 2024 - Present
    Saffron AI · 2 yr 7 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
    • Took Saffron AI from zero to $9 million ARR.
    • Signed 67 paying customers, 6 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small supply chain software company.
  2. Account Executive
    Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
    Accenture · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Opened 9 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.
    • Closed 178% of quota two years running.
  3. Sales Manager
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
    Bain & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Closed 232% of quota two years running.
    • Built the enterprise team from 4 to 20 reps.
  4. Regional Sales Director
    Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
    Nvidia · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Opened 5 new logos over $1 million ACV in the region.
  5. Sales Manager
    Aug 2015 - Nov 2017
    VMware · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Signed 20 channel partners that now source 33% of pipeline.
    • Opened 4 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2013 - 2015
  2. Boston University
    BS, Engineering
    2008 - 2012

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