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Sales Director - East Coast

Full Time


Enterprises and developers use Algolia’s AI search infrastructure to understand users and show them what they’re looking for.


Job Description

We are looking for an experienced sales executive to lead our East Coast Region. One of the priorities of the Sales Director is to coach our existing team and grow our East Coast team to expand our footprint within our up market segments, with a focus on Enterprise and Large Accounts.

As a Sales Director you will be responsible for the new revenue coming from the region. This role is a high-impact role which will involve a great combination of commercial, strategic and people management skills. This role requires a strong prospecting mentality, a challenging nature and an excellent knowledge of the different sales processes of an up market sales motion.

We are looking to hire a smart, driven, and experienced leader who is passionate about building sales professionals in a hyper growth environment.


Responsibilities

  • Define and execute our Go-To-Market strategy for the East Coast region, by collaborating very closely with our Marketing, Partner, Business Development, Solutions Engineer, Customer Success teams, Product and Legal teams
  • Track sales targets for the team- prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly sales forecasts
  • Suggest and implement process improvements, working closely with Sales Operations
  • Research and discover methods to increase our sales metrics, including average deal size, reduce sales cycle, improve conversion rates
  • Build an open-communication environment for the team
  • Use customer feedback to generate ideas about new features, offerings, pricing

Requirements

  • 5+ years of successfully hiring, coaching and managing up market Account Executives
  • 5+ years of experience in a 6 figure ACV environment
  • Experience with SaaS products
  • Strong knowledge of salesforce (reports, dashboards, forecasting)
  • Proven forecasting methodology and accuracy