Enterprise Sales Director - Strategic

Sierra
Toronto, Canada
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for enterprise sales professionals who lead complex, multi-stakeholder deals and operate with precision, who have experience managing large accounts and engaging with C-suite executives.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10-12 years of enterprise sales experience and a track record of closing multi-million-dollar deals
    — “10-12+ years of enterprise/strategic sales experience, owning the largest and most complex accounts.”
  • Individuals who can build and execute GTM strategies from early-stage growth or scratch
    — “Experience building GTM strategies: Building sales teams and sales motions from scratch, or from early stage growth.”
  • Candidates with deep C-suite relationships and the ability to act as a peer to executive buyers
    — “Deep, sustained C-suite relationships and the gravitas to be treated as a peer by executive buyers.”

Things to consider

  • Must be comfortable with frequent travel despite the remote work arrangement
    — “We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco”
  • Requires ability to engage with customers at the founder level and represent the company's leadership confidently
    — “Engage at the founder level: Be trusted to regularly engage and manage Sierra's co-founders in front of customers”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to manage complex, multi-geo deals with structured deal design
    — “Architect Sierra's most complex deals: Lead our largest multi-BU, multi-geo opportunities”
  • Emphasize your experience with AI-native sales tools and automation in your sales process
    — “Leverage AI tools across the full sales cycle- account research, personalized outreach”
  • Showcase your influence in shaping strategic account approaches and sales org standards
    — “Shape strategy: Influence how Sierra approaches its most important accounts”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • closed multi-million-dollar deals
  • influenced sales strategy
  • managed complex multi-geo deals
Typical background
enterprise salesstrategic sales

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise SalesComplex Deal StructuringRisk ManagementC-suite Relationship ManagementAI Sales

Preferred

AI LandscapeFounder-level EngagementGTM Strategy

Stack & domain

AISalesforceQuipGoogle MapsGoogle WorkspaceGoogle LensLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkEnterprise SalesAI SalesCustomer Experience

About the role

Original posting from Sierra via Ashby

ABOUT US

At Sierra, we’re building a platform to enable every company in the world to build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We partner with industry leaders such as SoftBank, Uber, Rivian, CLEAR, and Sutter Health. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.

We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Architect Sierra's most complex deals: Lead our largest multi-BU, multi-geo opportunities, designing sophisticated deal structures and managing risk with precision and conviction.
  • Operate as part of the customer's team: Hold trusted relationships across the customer C-suite and working teams.
  • Engage at the founder level: Be trusted to regularly engage and manage Sierra's co-founders in front of customers, pitching with co-founder-like conviction and expertise.
  • Bring precision to everything: Operate with exacting craft in messaging, positioning, and timing across every interaction.
  • Shape strategy: Influence how Sierra approaches its most important accounts and set the standard for the broader sales org.
  • Operate as an AI-native seller: Leverage AI tools across the full sales cycle- account research, personalized outreach, call summarization, pipeline forecasting, and deal execution- to automate low-value tasks and reinvest that time into high-value customer relationships, while continuously adopting and experimenting with new tools to work faster and smarter than traditional methods allow.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

  • 10-12+ years of enterprise/strategic sales experience, owning the largest and most complex accounts.
  • Demonstrated success closing multi-million-dollar, multi-stakeholder deals spanning business units and geographies.
  • Experience managing a $1M+ quota and running end-to-end complex 6- and 7-figure ACV deals.
  • Deep, sustained C-suite relationships and the gravitas to be treated as a peer by executive buyers.
  • Mastery of complex deal structuring, risk navigation, and pricing.
  • Exceptional executive communication and a reputation for precision and trust.

EVEN BETTER...

  • Deep familiarity with the AI landscape and the ability to speak credibly to technical and business stakeholders alike.
  • Experience operating alongside founders/executives in front of strategic customers.
  • Experience building GTM strategies: Building sales teams and sales motions from scratch, or from early stage growth.

OUR VALUES

  • Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
  • Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.
  • Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve.
  • Intensity: We know we don’t have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isn’t, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.
  • Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each other’s personal and professional achievements.

WHAT WE OFFER

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:

  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized 
  • Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
  • Free alphorn lessons

These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

BE YOU, WITH US

We're working to bring the transformative power of AI to every organization in the world. To do so, it is important to us that the diversity of our employees represents the diversity of our customers. We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

Source: Sierra careers (Ashby)

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