SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked? What did not work?

Sales Hiring 192

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 192

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

And so we’re a great experience for your employees but also for your finance teams who are trying to control costs and save money. Second, product market fit. And he said, “Product and engineering are going to build this weekend. Meagen, sales. So here we are, the unfortunate truth. And so we built.

Travel 174

Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 174

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. We’re trying to recruit someone that’s way above our weight class, so that we can actually scale. You hire a search firm.

VP of Engineering 253

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 253

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2021

So an amazing founder CEO often can also be the VP of Sales, VP of Product, hack Marketing, fly across the globe as the VP of Customer Success, and sometimes, even continue to write some code. Even better if it helps you skip a round of financing. That’s great. In every single function. Engineering.

Part-Time VPE 289

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Finance 289

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. COO, what does it mean?

CTO Coach 136

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 136

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“We’re having yet another existential crisis about who we are and what we do” Meanwhile, in company leadership meetings everywhere, this is what’s going on. Then, lots of other functions like product management and engineering, which can sit close to those disciplines.

Sales Recruiting 220

Sales Recruiting Leadership Engineering Finance 220

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding.

Sales Recruiting 79

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 79

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. I’m not sure I’m at product market fit yet. One, a VP sales. A VP of sales is a misnomer.

Merchant Services 218

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 218

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. I’m not sure I’m at product market fit yet. One, a VP sales. A VP of sales is a misnomer.

Merchant Services 191

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 191

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 132

OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g., We think we should hold off doing channels until we’ve debugged the sales model. Maybe it wasn’t a great idea.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? How’s that going to change marketing? Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. I need this.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

VP of Engineering 74

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Everyone here I think actually has a different background that they bring to the table, whether it’s a programmer, whether it’s in finance, whether it’s in law. Craig : Putting the management team together was really around stages of the company. Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one.

Sales Hiring 253

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 253

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business. Where are the challenges?

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. At the moment, sales enablement is easy. The result, more sales meetings. We’re on iTunes.

Leadership 63

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