Sales Director, Strategic at Braze in Chicago, IL

WHO WE ARE

Braze delivers customer experiences across email, mobile, SMS, and web. Customers, including Seamless, HBO, Disney, Urban Outfitters, and Venmo, use the Braze platform to facilitate real-time experiences between brands and consumers in a more authentic and human way. And we do it at scale – each month, tens of billions of messages are sent to a network of over 2 billion active users through Braze.

Need more proof? Braze was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms in 2019. The company has also been named on the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. Magazine’s 2019 Best Places to Work, and Crain's 2019 Best Places to Work in NYC lists.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

This is a SaaS Strategic sales leadership role, managing a team of Strategic Account Executives for Braze’s market-leading Customer Journey Orchestration platform. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about helping brands communicate more effectively with their customers, building a winning team, and expanding our highly successful customer base.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of successful experience leading, and developing a team of Strategic sellers in a high-growth, rapidly evolving, and dynamically competitive market. Your team will focus on the entire lifecycle relationship with their clients, so you should have experience helping them develop and evangelize net-new business, while nurturing and expanding the relationships with their customer base. As a front-line leader whose team addresses the problems of customers across multiple industries, you should have strong business acumen, and help prepare for, and participate directly in, customer-facing engagements. Your leadership will have a direct impact on the success of our customers, the development of your team, and the success of Braze.

WHO YOU ARE

• Minimum of 5 years of successful experience leading a team of at least five quota-carrying Strategic Account Executives
• A proven ability to recruit, retain, inspire, and develop top talent
• Proven experience in leading teams through the full-lifecycle of a SaaS customer: prospecting, acquisition, retention and long-term relationship growth
• Ability to coordinate and work cross-functionally internally with internal constituencies, including Business Development, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal, and Sales Operations
• Outstanding verbal, written and in-person presentation skills
• Excellent commercial and legal negotiation skills
• Strong technical and business acumen; the ability to engage with multiple customer personas across a wide variety of industries and within both technical and marketing functional roles
• Up-to-date on digital and application trends, especially in the mobile space
• Proven success navigating large organizations and ability to quickly identify the decision makers and decision-making process for large SaaS investments
• Prior experience selling Mobile or Marketing Technology is a strong plus
• Prior experience in a startup technology company a plus

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive compensation that includes equity
• Flexible time off policy to balance your work and life, including paid parental leave
• Free daily lunch in the office, including snacks and beverages
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Collaborative, transparent, and fun loving office culture