Director, Sales

Canvs AI is on a mission to enable empathy for the world's leading brands by putting the power of understanding consumers' feelings in the hands of every business. Fortune 500 companies like CVS, Disney, Church & Dwight, ABInbev and Netflix use the Canvs AI Platform daily to analyze unstructured feedback from both consumers and employees. Over the last year alone, Canvs has analyzed over 850 million pieces of open-ended text from surveys, social media and online comments on behalf of its brands, helping them achieve 20X faster insights while deepening their understanding of customers, markets and employees.

Canvs AI is looking for an experienced Director, Sales to join our team! This position will have the crucial responsibility of managing, mentoring and scaling our Sales team. Integral to success in this role is the ability to manage sales processes that drive client deals efficiently and effectively and act as player/coach to the Account Executives. In this role, the Director, Sales will also be responsible for establishing key sales targets and generating new leads based on company objectives. He/she will implement sales processes that will strategically promote revenue growth and client satisfaction for the organization.

What You'll Do

• Implement sales strategies to support business objectives for lead generation, consumer awareness and client communications based on market research and competitor analysis
• Ability to balance individual quota, and team quota
• Accurately forecast and develop business plans that strategically build revenue within all verticals and products
• Provide and share key learnings and best practices with team members
• Identify, prospect and drive outbound calling and sourcing of new clients and opportunities as well as respond to inbound inquiries
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to drive revenue growth within new and existing clients
• Meet and exceed both personal and team revenue objectives
  
  

Who You Are

• Demonstrated experience in leading and scaling a group of professional sales people
• 3-5 years' experience of successfully building and managing a sales team
• Strong interpersonal skills to support interaction with clients, team members and management
• Proven self-starter and thought leader with innate curiosity and aptitude
• Excellent written, oral and visual communication skills
• 25 – 35% travel
  
  

Benefits We Offer

• Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000 base + commissions
• Tremendous opportunity for career growth
• Strong culture and commitment to values.
• Flexibility via a fully distributed company (Work From Anywhere!).
• Generous health benefits.
• Unlimited paid vacation.
• Summer Fridays.
• Monthly (at a minimum) virtual team-building events.
  
  

The Canvs Commitment

About

Canvs is committed to making the world a more empathetic place, and fills its ranks with people who want to do great work, care about making a difference, and regularly exemplify the company's shared values of:

• Openness, honesty, and transparency;
• Intellectual curiosity;
• High integrity and honor; and
• Empathy and compassion.
  
  

Canvs is also committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants from populations underrepresented in tech are strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.