Director of Sales

San Francisco, CA /
Sales – Account Executive /
Full-time /
We are looking for a talented leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and sales in the Enterprise Sales segment. The Sales Director will formulate and execute a strategy to maximize business growth and report into the Vice President. 

With an exemplary track record in sales leadership, the Sales Director will drive business growth by increasing and developing new customers in the Enterprise space. This role works in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Customer Success, therefore cross-company engagement and orchestration is essential. 

The successful candidate will lead a team of Account Executives (Enterprise), the SMB/MM AE Manager, and the SDR/BDR Manager. The candidate will be a high impact individual capable of driving outstanding business results & first-class employee development. 

The Sales Director is fully responsible for developing and managing the team to generate revenue and achieve individual team and organizational quotas. Contributing to the sales strategy, the Sales Director defines and implements the plan for the assigned territory to achieve sales objectives. 

Responsibilities

    • Provide support and guidance to direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings or engaging other corporate resources as required.
    • Development of the team, including recruiting, hiring and training new enterprise account executives on the sales process.
    • Conducting weekly forecast meetings.
    • Coaching direct reports on strategies to drive sales wins.
    • Accurate reporting on sales activity and forecasting to VP and leadership team.
    • Consistent monitoring of the sales activity of the team, and tracking of results.
    • Actively leading and monitoring demand generation activities
    • Leading initiatives to drive customer awareness and engagement
    • Develop and execute successful sales campaigns.
    • Engaging at the C-level in enterprise customer organizations

Required Skills

    • 7+ years of enterprise sales experience
    • A proven, successful background in sales leadership in the enterprise customer space
    • Proven ability to create high performing teams and lead them to success
    • Proven record of sales success in the mobile/SAAS industry; Solid understanding of SAAS & business value selling
    • Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
    • Excellent negotiation skills
    • A self-starter that can thrive in a fast-paced environment