Professional Services Business Development Director

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · United States · PS Sales

This role is a sales leadership position focused on selling professional services for Smartsheet, an enterprise work management platform. The Director will own the end-to-end sales cycle for the Services Portfolio, driving customer value by positioning Smartsheet as a strategic partner. Key responsibilities include leading complex pursuits, influencing executive stakeholders, and applying value-based selling to achieve measurable business outcomes. The role requires a strong track record in enterprise sales, territory management, and account planning, with experience in closing significant professional services deals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the services sales cycle: Lead pursuits from early qualification through signed Statement of Work (SOW), with or without AE/SE support
  2. Elevate conversations: Uplevel customer and account team discussions across the Customer Outcomes lifecycle to influence platform adoption, multi solution expansion, and long term value creation
  3. Drive value-led selling: Apply value frameworks (e.g., Smartsheet Value Selling, MEDDIC, Challenger) to uncover priorities, link them to Smartsheet solutions, and advise the customer through opportunity closed-won
  4. Engage executives: Develop trusted relationships with executive sponsors, procurement, and key decision makers to accelerate deal velocity and eliminate last mile friction
  5. Generate and progress pipeline: Maintain ~3× coverage by identifying whitespace, creating new opportunities, and advancing stalled pursuits with clear next steps and mutual action plans

Skills

Required

  • 7 years carrying a services or solutions quota for enterprise customers
  • Proven success leading complex, multi-stakeholder, multi-solution deals and collaborating across account teams
  • Strong command of value-based selling (e.g., Smartsheet Value Selling, MEDDIC, Challenger) and speaking to defensible business cases/ROI tied to outcomes and CLV
  • Track record in territory management and account planning across Large Enterprise
  • Ability to travel up to 40–50%

Nice to have

  • seven-figure TCV experience a plus
  • Smartsheet experience is a plus
  • advanced degree preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • services sales cycle
  • value-led selling
  • value frameworks
  • executive sponsors
  • 7 years carrying a services or solutions quota for enterprise customers
  • closing Professional Services opportunities >$250k
  • multi-stakeholder, multi-solution deals