Head of Sales - North America (Open to Remote)
Head of Sales
Gen3 Marketing is seeking a Head of Sales, reporting to the CEO, to lead the strategy, operations, and execution of our commercial sales team. This role oversees inbound and outbound sales, driving a disciplined operating cadence, improving pipeline quality and conversion, and ensuring consistent achievement of new business and total sales targets.
The ideal candidate combines strong sales leadership with hands-on deal execution, guiding late-stage opportunities to close, elevating qualification and follow-up discipline, and improving forecast accuracy.
This role partners closely with Marketing (dotted-line) to align lead generation, targeting, and conversion insights, creating a feedback loop that fuels growth.
Key Responsibilities
Sales Team Leadership & Execution
- Directly manage, coach, and develop all sales team members (BDRs, closers, and sales ops support) to drive consistent performance and accountability
- Establish clear goals and expectations by role (outbound activity, pipeline creation, stage progression, close rate, and quota attainment)
- Run structured deal strategy reviews and support late‑stage deal execution (negotiation planning, stakeholder mapping, close plans)
- Drive improvements in win rate through rigorous qualification, competitive positioning, and consistent sales process adherence.
- Sales Operations, Cadence & Forecasting
- Own the sales operating cadence: weekly pipeline and forecast calls, stage-by-stage inspection, and gap-close planning
- Define and manage core KPIs (pipeline coverage, conversion by stage, cycle time, win rate, outbound activity, meeting-to-opportunity and opportunity-to-close rates)
- Ensure high‑integrity CRM usage (HubSpot): accurate stage management, activity logging, close dates, and reporting hygiene
Targeting, Playbooks & Enablement
- Refine and operationalize the ideal customer profile (ICP) and targeting approach in partnership with Chief Customer Officer and the marketing team
- Develop and continuously improve outbound and closing playbooks (messaging, objection handling, discovery, qualification, mutual action plans)
- Strengthen proposal and SOW discipline (scope clarity, pricing logic, margin awareness, and negotiation readiness)
- Standardize handoffs from BDR to closer and from signed deal to delivery/account leadership to reduce downstream churn risk
Cross‑Functional Partnership (Dotted‑Line to Marketing)
- Partner with Marketing (dotted line) to align campaigns / content with ICP targets and pipeline needs
- Create a feedback system on lead quality, conversion performance, and messaging effectiveness
- Coordinate with Finance and Operations leadership on targets, capacity, and performance reporting
What you’ll need
- Strong business development experience (with preference for experience with performance marketing)
- 8+ years of experience in technology, advertising or a media sale with progressive career advancement and expanded responsibilities
- Experience with short and long sales cycles, and a broad range of clients spanning large enterprise-level, as well as small and midsized businesses (ecomm and financial services experience a plus)
- Track record of team building and culture development
- A motivated self-starter, process-oriented with high attention to detail
- Operates with a sense of urgency and expects his/her team to do the same, leading by example
- Possesses a very hands-on orientation and comfortable working in a resource lean environment
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
What's in it for you?
- Compensation includes a base salary plus a competitive commission/bonus structure based on performance and achievement of targets.
- Hybrid work and remote work options are available outside of head office locations
- Flexible work hours
- Summer Fridays
- Insurance coverage with cost incentives
- Paid parental leave benefits
- Opportunities to travel
- 401K contribution matching plan after 6 months