Strategic Sales Director

🕒 July 15

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $150k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤑 Sales

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Robust.AI

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11 - 50 employees

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

💰 $20M Series A on 2023-04

Logistics • Construction • Consulting

Robust. AI is a company focused on deploying robots with a human-centric design and AI-powered workflows. They aim to enhance warehouse fulfillment and manufacturing through automation solutions. Their robots are designed to collaborate effectively with humans, emphasizing ease of adoption and flexibility in scale as business needs evolve.

📋 Description

• Work with Robust.AI Sales Leadership to help size and position robotic solutions to both new and existing customers • Develop, maintain, and grow a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities in our target market • Drive and manage the entire sales cycle, from initial engagement to closed sales, for large and mid-market opportunities • Build and defend the business case: ROI models, subscription economics, and performance-based structures • Lead pricing and contract negotiation in partnership with sales leadership, structuring agreements that scale • Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder buying processes including procurement, legal, safety, and IT security review • Own a named portfolio of strategic accounts: build penetration plans that map the organization, identify the economic buyer, and multi-thread across operations, engineering, finance, and IT • Collaborate internally with solutions, marketing, product, and customer success teams to provide feedback from the field and ensure an ideal customer experience • Act as a player-coach, leading and mentoring junior reps on the team and in your territory • Network and develop relationships with partners in our space to help expand our market presence • Travel to and spend time onsite with prospects to qualify and assess their current operations and fit of our solution • Lead and drive the expansion of systems at early-stage customer sites • Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements • Effectively communicate with customers daily to ensure smooth transitions to deployment and continued scaling opportunities • Communicate and troubleshoot with the Robust engineering team

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Business Administration, Operations, Engineering, or related field and at least 8 years of related work experience • Strong knowledge and understanding of distribution and fulfillment operations • An existing network of relationships with 3PLs, retailers, and fulfillment operators that you can activate from day one • A proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets and objectives • Demonstrated success closing large, complex, multi-stakeholder deals with long sales cycles and executive sponsorship • Strong commercial and financial fluency — you can build and defend an ROI case in front of customer executives • Experience mentoring or coaching other sellers, formally or informally • Ability to communicate technical/complex information both verbally and in writing • Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently and in customer settings • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal and external teams • Knowledge of and interest in diverse technical topics, including software, hardware, and robotics • Experience managing and navigating enterprise level sales • Perform multiple tasks concurrently and respond to pressure situations effectively • Strong leadership and relationship-building skills • 50% Travel required

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with quota-based accelerators • Stock options and growth potential • Strong startup (and fun) culture • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage • Flexible vacation and sick leave practices • Paid parental leave