Sales Director, Mid-market

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · Vancouver, BC · Remote · Canada

Sales Director, Mid-Market for Samsara, a company providing a Connected Operations Cloud platform for industries dependent on physical operations. The role focuses on managing and coaching a team of sales managers and account executives to achieve sales targets, focusing on industries like agriculture, construction, and transportation. This is a leadership role within the sales function, not directly involved in AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Coach a team of 6-8 sales managers on sales strategy, pipeline reviews and achieve quarterly targets
  2. Hire new managers and 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 managers and account executives through professional development plans

Skills

Required

  • Sales strategy
  • Pipeline reviews
  • Sales management
  • Coaching
  • Hiring
  • Onboarding
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Project management
  • Training development
  • Professional development planning
  • Public speaking
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Team management
  • Self-starter
  • Adaptability
  • Data-driven decision making
  • SFDC proficiency

Nice to have

  • Innate curiosity in how businesses work
  • Ability to provide upward feedback
  • Continued growth mindset

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of sales experience
  • 3+ years of experience managing US teams
  • Experience leading full-cycle sales into the US market
  • Strong track record of overachievement with experience in coaching a team in outbounding
  • Understanding of complex sales cycles involving multiple decision makers, multiple products, and extended time frames