ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect. However, I found there were two flaws in our customer management process. After getting slapped on the wrist a few times for my after-sales support, I knew things had to change. We had presales, and we had post-sales.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Compensation 98

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 26, 2018

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

Sales Enablement 100

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 100

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. The processes are probably new.

Sales Hiring 120

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 120

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

When you are growing fast you end up spending a lot of time getting the right people into the roles in the right structure to help efficiency, communication, quality, and results. Here are 5 roles you may not have thought of and how they can help drive immediate revenue & sales efficiency impact. Is it time for a sales engineer?

Sales Recruiting 64

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

First, digital CS will become a way of life due to flat or reduced headcount. Customer sentiment, intention, and level of trust can be surfaced and incorporated into more predictive customer health scores while providing valuable insights and feedback to CSMs and account managers. Post-sales functions will get a rebrand.

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Sales Hiring Artificial Intelligence 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Like let’s take a more conservative approach in the earlier months of the year in terms of adding headcount. Can we recruit hiring new team members from January to April, or from January to June this year, just to make sure that as we enter in the next year, we’re able to start off with some wins and not get upside down. [Jay]:

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Finance 87

OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

Inner Workings of Product Management at Product Led Growth Companies. At product led growth (PLG) companies like Atlassian and Intercom, product management may look very different from a ‘traditional’ SaaS company. These companies have fewer sales reps (or none at all), meaning more resources get invested into product and engineering.

Management 75

Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 75

ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

Skillset 1: Sales acumen In 2024, driving revenue is a primary responsibility of CS. This means that sales acumen is no longer just a bonus for CS professionals—it’s a new baseline for many companies. This means that exceptional communication skills, active listening, creative problem-solving, and genuine empathy command a premium.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

SmartKarrot

MARCH 30, 2023

To design account strategies and build account plans, define growth objectives and the requirements to fulfil them, and support staff headcount requirements, collaborate with sales representatives, customer success representatives, and account development representatives. Good at learning new systems.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Advertising Headcount 19

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2021

The other day I saw a VP of Sales flame out and resign with no notice from a SaaS company doing $10m ARR growing quickly. Not only were they not remotely aligned on anything, clearly they weren’t even communicating. The original version here on Lattice Engines’ Sales and Marketing Hub. Sales Tactics.

Sales Recruiting 313

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Revenue 313

SmartKarrot

MARCH 30, 2023

To design account strategies and build account plans, define growth objectives and the requirements to fulfil them, and support staff headcount requirements, collaborate with sales representatives, customer success representatives, and account development representatives. Good at learning new systems.

Customer Success 15

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Advertising Headcount 15

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

Scale 139

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Trends 139

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 233

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 233

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

We’re going through layoffs and furloughs, recession planning and for me as the CMO, facing really massive cuts to marketing budgets and headcount. Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” And then of course, sales pipeline and the livelihood of our business.

Travel 220

Travel Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 220

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Wiza’s accuracy-obsessed B2B contact database offers 99% coverage of LinkedIn profiles as well as a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to access contact data while browsing LinkedIn profiles and when exporting from Sales Nav. From there, hire a VP of sales whose job it is to replicate what made the initial sales reps successful. #4

Banking 115

Banking Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 115

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

How does Karl think about working with recruiters? He likes to say that he did such a poor job at that, that we quickly turned him to a second job, which was, “Hey, we didn’t have a sales organization at all at the time and should we? Do we need a sales org?” Similarly, with my VP of sales. What works?

Sales Hiring 233

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 233

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Amyra Rand , VP of Sales & Strategic Partnerships at Criteria Corp. Amyra is also a member of the Revenue Collective & the Chapter VP at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals; she is an MBA from Pepperdine. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

VP of Engineering 42

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale 42

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2025

Far too many CROs and VP of Sales worry they are going to be fired for the wrong reasons. Everyone wants to see a new CRO or VP of Sales succeed. If youre going to miss your quarter, communicate this early and come prepared with a plan to address it. Communities like Pavilion can help fill these gaps.

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Sales Hiring Revenue Sales Recruiting 274