Sales Manager, Asia

ABOUT US:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life's work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are hiring our founding team and first Sales Leader for our new Singapore office. This person will help grow our business across Asia. They will build a world class culture and help establish this once-in-generation-company in the world's fastest growing region.

We need someone with an entrepreneurial and builder spirit, someone who enjoys coaching sales reps to be the best they can be, someone who is data-driven and experienced in managing a high-velocity sales pipeline.

As our first Sales Manager, you and your team will play an important role defining/iterating on our sales motions, providing customer feedback to help share our roadmap, and generating revenue to grow our sales business. You will own the strategy and execution of your team’s territory.

WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE:

• Lead a team of Account Executives who handles full cycle sales activities, including: prospecting/building pipeline, developing new potential accounts, expanding existing customers, and renewing an install base

• Own the strategy of your team’s territory, including how the team maximizes the revenue it is generating and retaining

• Own the execution of your team’s strategy, including the team forecast and pipeline generation

• Work with cross functional partners to build playbooks and define our sales motion

• Liaise with our incredible user base to provide world class customer experience

• Drive executive level relationships - internally and externally

• Work cross-functionally and collaboratively with internal teams (sales, inside sales, customer success, solution engineer, deal-desk, ops, legal)

SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING:

• 8+ years of full cycle sales at a fast growing software company

• 5+ years of leading a sales organization at a fast growing software company

• Strong leader who builds cross functional relationships inside and outside of sales

• A track record of leading high performing teams who exceed their quotas

• A phenomenally strong communicator

• A strong ability to analyze data to build thoughtful strategies

• Engaging and compelling presentation skills

• A passion for coaching and rep development

• A positive and open minded attitude

• A strong desire to be successful without sacrificing your values

• A builder mentality who thrives in collaborative environments

• An ability to operate within the gray and find creative or out-of-the-box solutions when faced with ambiguity

• Experience of quarterly sales planning

• You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've got strong technical chops

• Direct sales plus experience of selling through Partners

• New logo acquisition sales experience

• Native Mandarin and fluent English skills

• Experience selling productivity tools

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

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