Sales Manager

The role, in one line

You will build the system the US sales team wins with, lead the AEs who run it, and keep closing deals yourself.

What you will own

• Lead and coach the US AE team to hit their targets.
• Run the team's weekly cadence: pipeline and forecast reviews, deal reviews and 1:1s.
• Build the local US playbook from the ground up: ICP, self-prospecting, discovery, demo and closing standards the team can repeat.
• Use Mutual Success Plans to close deals, and coach every AE to build and run one on each qualified opportunity.
• Design the system the team works in: activity standards, stage definitions, and ramp milestones for new AEs.
• Track the success of that system in the data: conversion by stage, win rates, cycle length, and attainment per AE.
• Carry your own individual target and close your own strategic deals, so you stay close to the buyer and lead from the front.
• Challenge the team when the standard slips on preparation, call quality, and follow-through.
• Work with BDR, Partnerships, and RevOps to turn the playbook into pipeline and revenue.
• Use AI tools to raise the quality of research, prep, and follow-up across the team.

What you will need

• A track record as a top-performing seller in a high-growth SaaS or AI company, backed by numbers: quota attainment, deal sizes and where you ranked against peers.
• Experience as a Sales Lead, team lead or player-coach, and a clear wish to take the next step into management.
• A history of growing inside your company: promotions, bigger territories, more responsibility.
• Hands-on experience closing deals with Mutual Success Plans or mutual action plans.
• Systems thinking. You have built a process, playbook or reporting that others used, and you measured whether it worked.
• A data-driven way of working. You run your pipeline and your team from the numbers.
• A founder's mindset. You want to build the US motion, not inherit a finished one.
• High energy and a strong drive to win.
• The confidence to challenge people and hold them to a high standard, not only to be liked.
• Appetite to sell. You are happy to carry an individual target alongside leading the team.

What you will get

• Recharge properly — 30 days of paid holiday
• Change the view — a week-long exchange to London, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Vilnius, Berlin, Sofia, or Barcelona
• Win together, celebrate together — regular team-wide events that are actually worth showing up to
• Covered, properly — additional medical care
• Stay in the game — a sports card, fully funded, for the gym, classes, or your sport of choice
• Commute easily — a monthly travel allowance that covers getting to and from the office
• Use what you build — hands-on access to the actual product you're hiring people to help build

Payhawk is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.