At SmartBear, we deliver the visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning product are trusted by over 16 million developers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.
Scope of Position
The Manager of Sales will report to the Senior Director of Sales for our API Hub solutions. They are responsible for the day-to-day operations of one of SmartBear’s direct API Hub new business sales. The Manager of Sales will drive the company’s achievement of its booking and revenue goals, customer acquisition, up-selling and cross-selling into SmartBear’s top customers and prospects.
Responsibilities:
• Lead a SmartBear North American Core Sales Team through proven sales methodologies and processes.
• Instill a culture of success and ongoing business development against company goals in SmartBear’s top prospects.
• Develop comprehensive plan and strategy for the team to accelerate deal growth and cross-sell including deals exceeding $100K.
• Establish and manage the required metrics for the sales funnel management. Provide detailed and accurate sales forecasting.
• Define and coordinate sales training programs and processes specific for the sales team that enable individual competitors to achieve their potential, ensuring outstanding consultative selling abilities and excellent interpersonal skills with executive level customers and partners.
• Work closely and cooperatively with the Marketing function to define and refine the value proposition for SmartBear’s top accounts, including SmartBear’s Platform Story.
• Monitor customer, market and competitor activity and provide feedback to company leadership and other functions to develop competitive strategies.
• Be a role model for the company culture.
• Report on weekly cadence of sales forecasting, lead generation, reporting and analytics.
• Work with cross functional teams to optimize the sales flow and enable deal delivery.
Key Requirements:
• 5+ years SaaS/software sales experience, and 2-4 years of Leadership experience
• A versatile player-coach, with experience leading Core Sales Reps.
• Experienced in large enterprise sales cycles of three to six months
• Ability to establish Executive contacts and relationships with potential customers and channel partners.
• Commitment to exceed customer expectations and contribute to a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Ability to plan and manage at both the strategic and operational levels for the sales team and Partners.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and handle stress personally and professionally.
• Experience and proven ability to collaborate as a member of the sales management team.
• Within commuting distance to our headquarters in Somerville, MA.
Why you should join the SmartBear crew:
• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.
Did you know:
• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclow, Poland and Bangalore, India.
• We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work#LI-AS1
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What We Do
SmartBear is pioneering innovation in software quality, embracing AI’s transformative potential. The company’s powerful solution hubs, including SmartBear API Hub, SmartBear Insight Hub, and SmartBear Test Hub, featuring HaloAI, give software development teams around the world visibility and automation that provide end-to-end quality.
SmartBear is trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. With an active peer-to-peer community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to help make our technology-driven world a better place. The company is committed to ethical corporate practices, including responsible AI that integrates accountability and transparency across its technology stack, and to social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities it serves.
Award-winning and industry favorite tools including SwaggerHub, TestComplete, Bugsnag, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, and Pactflow, among others. Trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.
With an active peer-to-peer community, we meet customers where they are to help make our technology-driven world a better place. SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
Why Work With Us
SmartBear is revolutionizing software quality not just for our customers, but for our customers’ customers. With quality at the heart of everything we do, we actively support and train new teammates, fostering growth through development and internal promotions. Our culture is open, fun, and welcoming, empowering all experience levels to thrive.
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SmartBear supports flexible work arrangements, balancing home and work life uniquely for each employee. We offer In-Office, Hybrid, and Fully Remote options, recognizing the value of both in-person collaboration and personal flexibility for our team.