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Sales Team Lead 🔥


Company Description


Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.


Job Description


We are looking for a visionary sales leader who can help define and optimize our go-to-market strategy for our fast growing new-business sales team where you’ll be responsible for selling Shopify’s entire suite of enterprise solutions (Plus, Money, Retail, etc.). As a Sales Lead, you’ll build and lead an outstanding team of high-performing Account Executives, where you’ll be responsible for talent management, coaching, managing the pipeline, and playing a strategic role in designing the function as it continues to grow and mature.


Qualifications


You’ll need to have:

  • Ability to successfully motivate teams, set clear goals and create an inspiring environment that is open and transparent

  • Ability to leverage data to inform coaching, feedback and development conversations, as well as to measure, manage, and optimize efforts and allocation of resources

  • Customer-first mindset and customer empathy — curious and willing to learn new things

  • Track record of excellence and innovation in crafting original outbound strategies that drive impactful results for the business

  • Highly motivated, with the drive to work independently, plan and accomplish goals, as well as a successful track record of exceeding quota both as an individual contributor and manager

  • Experience collaborating with cross functional teams (e.g. marketing, customer success, revenue operations, etc) to create a continuous improvement feedback loop of learning and iteration

  • An entrepreneurial mindset that allows you to thrive in a rapidly growing and changing organization

  • An understanding of how to build teams and culture considering recruitment, people development and coaching

  • Experience with regular call coaching as well as team metrics and results - managing for performance

  • A growth mindset and a strong desire to continuously improve your skill set and your teams

Proficiency in Salesforce and Google Workspace is a plus, with the ability to report on KPIs, including individual and team results.


Additional Information


You’ll be working on things like:

  • Coaching a team of Account Executives to achieve their personal and professional development goals in pursuit of world-class sales excellence

  • Supporting your team in generating new outbound pipeline as well as closing deals through qualifying inbound opportunities from marketing, sales or other efforts

  • Establish and enforce best practices in areas of lead qualification, pitch discovery questions, consultative selling, pipeline management, and sales funnel reporting

  • Designing processes, tactics, playbooks, and policies that deliver long-term repeatable success and challenges the status quo when things aren’t working

  • Collaborating with teams across Shopify to build infrastructure for a growing team and customer base

  • Providing input and direction on marketing and product priorities

  • Collaborating on sales hiring, training, and development, along with building, documenting, and updating all training materials and internal SOP’s

  • Conduct weekly 1:1 meetings with Sales Executives to provide hands-on coaching and development. Lead weekly team meetings, rituals, and training sessions

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.

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