User Pilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMMs are more external-facing and work with customer-facing teams like sales, marketing, and customer success (alongside leadership). PMMs also care about adoption but may additionally monitor marketing performance metrics like leads, sales pipeline, sales velocity, and win rates.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. You’ll be able to download the interview scorecard template that I use with my clients. Can you ever be sure you’re hiring the right salesperson? Man oh man, how the world has changed so quickly!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

Interviewing is hard , and interviewing candidates for sales roles can be doubly so. Sales requires a mix of left- and right-brained qualities, and accurately evaluating a candidate’s skills is a challenge for hiring managers. Why is effective interviewing so important? Better interviewing = better sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue , only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations. 6 Key Fit Factors When Hiring for Sales. How does the candidate’s sales methodology align with the vision of sales leadership?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Despite not being classed as a C-level position, product managers are often leading multidisciplinary initiatives that start with your developers and end with the sales team so confident leadership is a must.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Jameson Yung, SVP of Sales at Gong, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and previous CRO at Brex, share five tactical ways to get back to growing and hitting revenue targets. Set and reinforce them early — as early as interviews. Create/ track a leaderboard so i f someone is below average in sales, it’s objective.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Finding the perfect VP of Sales position can be daunting, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. Candidates need to find opportunities that not only fit their sales experience and stretch goals, but also companies that are coming out of the pandemic with momentum. Who is looking to hire a VP of Sales in January / Q1?

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Valuize Consulting

MARCH 31, 2022

Suffering From Siloed Customer Data? 80% of leading businesses believe a single source of customer data would create significant and indispensable value for their company and their customers ( Salesforce , 2019). How did you get started with helping companies leverage technology and data to optimize their customer lifecycles?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enterprise businesses can now use their critical product usage data from Pendo and Mixpanel in their Totango experience to design optimal customer journeys, improving product adoption and customer retention. Mixpanel is an event analytics platform that allows anyone to get answers from their customer and revenue data in seconds.

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Valuize Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Optimize Your Customer Data Model For The Modern Subscription Economy. Customer data is an integral and indispensable part of leveling up your customer lifecycle. Q: Many technology enterprises suffer from “bad” customer data. From your experience, how do you define “bad” customer data? The second piece is customer IDs.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2022

This requires effort from your entire organization, and Handshake VP, Employer Partnerships Jessica Peluso outlines some changes that you can make to your brand, and your application, interview, and offer process that will help find the talent you are trying to attract and hire. Below is the transcript of Jessica’s session.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of the most consistent errors made in sales projections and planning is mismatching the ramp time to the sales cycle. If my startup has a 9 months sales cycle and the VP of Sales projects a six month ramp time, my startup is committing this error. For example, lead quality, sales training, funnel conversion rates.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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FastSpring

MAY 6, 2022

In the process, Cedric learned a thing or two about managing data. In fact, Cedric and Ahmed Elsamadisi , the senior data engineer at WeWork at the time, learned so much about what it took to scale a data operation that they devised a whole new system to make it easier. Why you should be skeptical about internal data.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2022

Having learned from thousands of customers and prospects, Sarah Lash, Envoy’s head of enterprise sales, will talk about what it takes to guide and scale enterprise sales programs during an uncertain future. In my first six months at Envoy , I grew the sales team from six to 17. Combine Strategies To Drive Sales.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 18, 2021

Customer exit interviews, when properly structured and executed, provide a unique chance to dig deep and discover valuable information which can lead to actionable churn-preventing insights. Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher, joined us for a webinar to discuss how to: Conduct killer customer exit interviews. Q&A Recap.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 18, 2021

On today’s episode of Sales Hacker podcast, we have Mike Levy of TitahHouse, a transparent and effective platform, loaded with in-depth career and job intelligence, exclusively designed to connect tech-focused sales professionals with their next great position. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Special Announcement.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 30, 2021

A CSM needs to be responsible for cultivating exceptional experiences and sustained value for your customers by acting as their trusted advisor and advocate from the point of sale through the renewal and throughout the rest of the customers’ lifecycle. 20 Interview Questions to Ask Your Customer Success Manager Candidates.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The basic idea was to help folks who haven’t hired a VP or Director of Marketing hire the right one for a pre-Scale sales-driven SaaS company. Or sometimes an SAL commit (Sales Accepted Lead). I want to bring this up again because I interview so many VP/head/director of marketing candidates. Or SQL commit.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

To solve this, Deel interviewed 200 founders seeking answers to the question, “If you’re open to hiring internationally and remotely, what are your biggest challenges, and what kind of product can we build to solve them? Use your data to inform. Interview personally and define hiring values to build your team.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For many, the sample sizes are too small, and the data quality too poor to make a convincing case for substantive changes. The answer lies in selecting a method for collecting and analyzing win/loss data that meets your goals and can be sustained long term. Sales surveys run in-house. Choosing Your Scope. A Broad Scope.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. A few examples from recruiting and interviewing lately that Jason warns fellow founders against: #1 Beware of the Managers vs the Do-ers. HashiCorp went public but it all stopped after that.”

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2023

When I graduated college, I applied to hundreds of sales jobs with no luck. Now, I am a founder at hiresalestalent.com, a platform that makes it easier to break into your dream sales career. We have over 400 sales roles listed at top companies across multiple industries. How to land your first sales job: 5 steps.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 29, 2021

Join our first discussion about the role and impact of RevOps, as well as how to become a truly data-driven company. In this episode, we interview Jim Lee, VP Revenue Strategy at Outreach, about how operations expresses the entire org’s strategy — and much more. Data science and business insight aren’t the same.

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SaaSX

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

This article should really be titled, “How to interview a product manager (if you aren’t a product person) “ Because customer success, marketing, sales, support, and other operational roles are key stakeholders in a SaaS organization they are often called into the interview process for product managers.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

Great interview questions tell you who a person is, what motivates them, how they think and solve problems, and what they’d be like as a teammate. To help us all conduct better interviews, we asked some of the smartest leaders in SaaS to share their favorite questions. takes the cake as the worst question ever.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

Mary Shea defines this term in her recent article Unleash: A New Cohort of Revenue Innovators Comes of Age : noun — a new cohort of revenue leaders who put buyers at the center of their strategies, who arm their sellers with the most innovative sales technologies, and who over-index on data, rather than intuition to inform their business decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. What is it about sales that makes academia hesitant to teach it? Bob wondered where all the sales professors were and discovered that perhaps as a profession it required more art than science.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2016

There’s a new class of company that wield data to create long-term competitive advantage. TheRealReal uses this morning’s sales data to inform this afternoon’s marketing campaigns. I first saw the impact of this type of data informed decision-making at Google. The best run companies use data to win.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 18, 2023

Table of contents Joel’s background: 80% interview rate, 0 sales experience Burn your resume! Here’s why Statistics: Video pitches vs. resumes How to make a video pitch Video pitch + follow-up cadence Real success stories Hone your mindset My story: How I landed an 80% interview rate with 0 sales experience It was early 2020.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. You may have to pass on hundreds of excellent sales hires—it’s definitely frustrating. Hopefully, these 5 tips will help you avoid many of the pitfalls I see candidates falling into, and drastically improve how you prepare for a sales interview. Sales interview must-dos

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SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2022

How can you focus your workforce and your data simultaneously? Founder of Marketo, Phil Hernandez, and Marketo’s former EVP of Sales, Bill Binch, have had decades of experience tackling precisely these issues. Phil, meanwhile, has his own take: Sales and marketing alignment. Culture of success. Enterprise/SDR.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 12, 2022

The other day a founder asked me about interviewing because a candidate had described me as “a great interviewer,” and she wanted to know why. I find interviewing and recruiting difficult, have made plenty of mistakes over the years, and the consequences of those mistakes are invariably painful. And for that matter, so did I.).

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once dominated by relationships, sales today (especially SaaS sales) are equally propelled by technology. With the broad adoption of CRM, the rise of the sales tech stack, and the advent of social selling and other digital sales channels, the sales landscape has shifted dramatically. Scaling SaaS Sales.

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