Sales Manager, Asia

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Singapore · Sales

This is a Sales Manager role for Notion's new Singapore office, focusing on growing business across Asia. The role involves leading a team of Account Executives, owning territory strategy and execution, defining sales motions, and generating revenue. While the company has AI built into its product, this role is not directly involved in building or researching AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of Account Executives who handles full cycle sales activities, including: prospecting/building pipeline, developing new potential accounts, expanding existing customers, and renewing an install base
  2. Own the strategy of your team’s territory, including how the team maximizes the revenue it is generating and retaining
  3. Own the execution of your team’s strategy, including the team forecast and pipeline generation
  4. Work with cross functional partners to build playbooks and define our sales motion
  5. Liaise with our incredible user base to provide world class customer experience

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of full cycle sales at a fast growing software company
  • 5+ years of leading a sales organization at a fast growing software company
  • Strong leader who builds cross functional relationships inside and outside of sales
  • A track record of leading high performing teams who exceed their quotas
  • A phenomenally strong communicator
  • A strong ability to analyze data to build thoughtful strategies
  • Engaging and compelling presentation skills
  • A passion for coaching and rep development
  • A positive and open minded attitude
  • A strong desire to be successful without sacrificing your values
  • A builder mentality who thrives in collaborative environments
  • An ability to operate within the gray and find creative or out-of-the-box solutions when faced with ambiguity
  • Experience of quarterly sales planning

Nice to have

  • You've got strong technical chops
  • Direct sales plus experience of selling through Partners
  • New logo acquisition sales experience
  • Native Mandarin and fluent English skills
  • Experience selling productivity tools

What the JD emphasized

  • founding team
  • first Sales Leader
  • Asia
  • entrepreneurial and builder spirit
  • data-driven
  • high-velocity sales pipeline
  • defining/iterating on our sales motions
  • customer feedback
  • generate revenue
  • own the strategy
  • own the execution
  • build playbooks
  • define our sales motion
  • Drive executive level relationships
  • 8+ years of full cycle sales
  • 5+ years of leading a sales organization
  • leading high performing teams
  • exceed their quotas
  • quarterly sales planning