Manager, Smb

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Remote · US Commercial AE1

This is a sales management role focused on leading and supporting Account Executives for small to mid-sized organizations within Samsara's Connected Operations Cloud platform. The role involves coaching, hiring, developing, and managing a sales team to achieve quarterly targets. It requires experience in sales, team management, and understanding complex sales cycles, with a focus on building customer relationships and driving business impact in industries like transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Coach a team of ~8 account executives on sales strategy, pipeline reviews and achieve quarterly targets
  2. Hire new account executives and provide both onboarding and ongoing coaching to ensure their growth and success
  3. Work cross-functionally to strategically solve problems and project manage
  4. Create content for ongoing training and development
  5. Support account executives through professional development plans

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience
  • Team management experience
  • Sales strategy
  • Pipeline reviews
  • Hiring
  • Onboarding
  • Coaching
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Project management
  • Content creation for training
  • Professional development planning
  • Feedback delivery
  • SFDC familiarity
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Communication skills
  • Public speaking
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Self-starter
  • Adaptability

Nice to have

  • Experience selling full-cycle sales
  • Experience in coaching a team on outbounding
  • Understanding of complex sales cycles involving multiple decision makers, multiple products, and extended time-frames
  • Continued growth mindset to learn a unique industry
  • Ability to provide upwards feedback

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years sales experience
  • 1-2+ years preferred experience managing a team
  • Proven performance owning a complex selling motion from prospecting through close
  • Strong track record of overachievement with experience in coaching a team on outbounding
  • Understanding of complex sales cycles involving multiple decision makers, multiple products, and extended time-frames