Sales Lead
$130k-$160k
Description
First Resonance is looking for a Sales Lead to help drive our sales process, accelerate our customer acquisition process, and work with manufacturing solution engineers on customer engagements. First Resonance works with cutting-edge hardware companies building the future of transportation, energy, space travel, and more such as Joby Aviation, Astra, and Matternet. This role will work closely with First Resonance’s Founders & COO and is expected to progress into a future Head of Sales. As a fast-growth startup, you will be expected to work across multiple departments.
Responsibilities
Sales
- Own quarterly and annual revenue targets and support pipeline execution across inbound and outbound channels
- Build the sales team from the ground up and work with company leadership to define First Resonance’s sales model and compensation packages
- Source and manage new sales opportunities by leading our customer acquisition process end to end with support from our technical manufacturing solution engineers
- Perform qualification calls, collect customer requirements for the product team, perform demonstrations across multiple levels of the organization to guide customers through the buying process, and help close new business
Process & Tooling
- Build and support improved processes for prospecting, qualification, account management, and pipeline management with a product-led lens
- Help build and manage the team’s go-to-market and sales data flow and tools to increase customer acquisition velocity and boost customer success productivity
- Partner with company leadership, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product teams to efficiently drive revenue
Reporting
- Report on key product-led growth and sales KPIs to ensure the team is tracking towards quarterly and annual goals(CAC / LTV, sales velocity, internal metrics, etc.)
- Enable better sales forecasting, pipeline, and operating cadence to facilitate resource allocation and sales priorities
Base skills
- 5+ years of experience in sales
- 2+ years of experience at a SaaS company
- Ability to juggle competing priorities and manage your own workflow and workload
- Ability to thrive and navigate through ambiguity and iterations
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - written and verbally
First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.