Strategic Sales Manager

Canals

• $150K — $180K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • History of closing seven-figure B2B deals with in-depth knowledge of the sales process
  • Proven experience managing, hiring, and developing high-performing quota-carrying sales team members
  • Strong philosophy for identifying and nurturing sales talent
  • Expertise in guiding teams through complex, long sales cycles and executive negotiations
  • Credibility with senior executives and presence to lead high-stakes meetings
  • Excellent skills in deal inspection, pipeline management, and forecasting
  • Commitment to high standards and direct coaching, willing to get involved in critical deals

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a team of strategic Account Executives
  • Identify and prioritize major opportunities across various verticals
  • Guide reps in developing account plans and managing complex sales cycles
  • Participate in high-stakes customer meetings to establish credibility
  • Drive deal strategy from initial engagement through closure
  • Conduct pipeline reviews and strategy sessions with clear execution standards
  • Hire exceptional sales talent using a systematic evaluation approach
  • Develop Account Executives to consistently win large, complex deals

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact the trajectory of a fast-growing company
  • Investment in hiring, development, and creating a high-performance environment
  • Work alongside ambitious and thoughtful teammates
  • Remote-first, flexible work environment with a distributed team across the Americas
  • Value placed on ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for an experienced strategic sales leader to build and lead a team of Account Executives pursuing the largest accounts in the markets Canals serves.

Your team will focus on the top companies in each vertical: accounts with complex buying processes, long sales cycles, and the potential for seven-figure deals. You'll help define how we pursue them, hire and develop the AEs who can win them, and stay close to the deals that matter most.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll coach reps through account strategy, executive engagement, negotiation, and closing. You'll also join customer conversations when your experience and presence can help move a deal forward.

What You'll Do
  • Build, lead, coach, and develop a team of strategic Account Executives
  • Identify and prioritize the largest opportunities across the verticals Canals serves
  • Help reps develop account plans and navigate long, complex sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders
  • Join high-stakes customer meetings and build credibility with senior executives
  • Guide deal strategy from initial engagement through negotiation and close
  • Run pipeline reviews, forecast calls, and deal strategy sessions with clear standards for execution
  • Hire exceptional sales talent using a thoughtful, consistent approach to evaluation
  • Develop AEs who can repeatedly win large, complex deals
  • Partner with sales leadership to set goals and refine the approach to strategic accounts
What You'll Bring
  • A demonstrated history of personally closing seven-figure B2B deals, with a clear command of what you sold, how you won, and what it took to get each deal across the finish line
  • An established track record managing, hiring, and developing quota-carrying sellers who have repeatedly closed seven-figure deals
  • A clear philosophy for identifying strong sales talent and helping people improve
  • Experience leading teams through long sales cycles, complex organizations, and executive-level negotiations
  • The presence and judgment to enter a meeting with a prospective customer's leadership team and be seen as a credible peer
  • Strong deal inspection, pipeline management, and forecasting skills
  • High standards, direct coaching, and a willingness to get involved when a deal needs your help
  • We care more about the depth of your experience and the teams you've built than a particular title or number of years in management.
Why Join Canals

We're building software that solves real problems for an industry that keeps the world running. Our customers rely on our platform every day to operate their businesses.

We've found strong product-market fit and continue to grow quickly, creating opportunities for people who want to have a meaningful impact on the trajectory of a company.

We believe great people build great companies. That's why we invest heavily in hiring, development, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do the best work of their careers.

You'll work alongside ambitious, thoughtful teammates who care deeply about what they do, challenge each other directly, and have a lot of fun along the way.

We value ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and people are trusted to make things happen.

We're remote-first, flexible, and distributed across North and South America, bringing together talented people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.

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