Country Lead Canada
About the role
We’re looking for a Country Lead to open and own Canada. You’ll be our first person on the ground, working hand-in-hand with the founders and the GTM team, splitting your time between Canada and our hubs in NYC and SF.
Canada is home to some of the world’s strongest AI research and a fast-growing wave of AI-native companies, and we want Linkup to be the search layer they build on.
You won’t start from zero. We already have customers, traction and strong relationships in Canada. Your job is to turn that foundation into a market: deepen what’s working, scale it, and make Linkup the default choice for Canadian AI teams.
This is a builder role. You’ll sell, but you’ll also shape the playbook, the network and the presence that take us from early traction to category leader in Canada.
Your core responsibilities will be to:
Own Canada end to end: market strategy, pipeline, revenue and expansion
Run the full sales cycle, from outreach and discovery to demo, negotiation and close
Build relationships across the Canadian AI ecosystem: startups, scale-ups, e