Sales Manager, Asia

Job description

About Us:
We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge.

Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day.

At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.


We've been working on this together since 2013, and have customers like OpenAI, Aspire, Toyota, Figma, Capgemini, Perplexity and thousands more on this journey with us.

Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do.

We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.


Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).


About The Role:
We are hiring our founding team and first Sales Leader for our new Singapore office.

This person will help grow our business across Asia.

They will build a world class culture and help establish this once-in-generation-company in the world's fastest growing region.


We need someone with an entrepreneurial and builder spirit, someone who enjoys coaching sales reps to be the best they can be, someone who is data-driven and experienced in managing a high-velocity sales pipeline.


As our first Sales Manager, you and your team will play an important role defining/iterating on our sales motions, providing customer feedback to help share our roadmap, and generating revenue to grow our sales business.

You will own the strategy and execution of your team’s territory.


What You'll Achieve:
Lead a team of Account Executives who handles full cycle sales activities, including: prospecting/building pipeline, developing new potential accounts, expanding existing customers, and renewing an install base
Own the strategy of your team’s territory, including how the team maximizes the revenue it is generating and retaining
Own the execution of your team’s strategy, including the team forecast and pipeline generation
Work with cross functional partners to build playbooks and define our sales motion
Liaise with our incredible user base to provide world class customer experience
Drive executive level relationships - internally and externally
Work cross-functionally and collaboratively with internal teams (sales, inside sales, customer success, solution engineer, deal-desk, ops, legal)
Skills You'll Need to Bring:
8+ years of full cycle sales at a fast growing software company
5+ years of leading a sales organization at a fast growing software company
Strong leader who builds cross functional relationships inside and outside of sales
A track record of leading high performing teams who exceed their quotas
A phenomenally strong communicator
A strong ability to analyze data to build thoughtful strategies
Engaging and compelling presentation skills
A passion for coaching and rep development
A positive and open minded attitude
A strong desire to be successful without sacrificing your values
A builder mentality who thrives in collaborative environments
An ability to operate within the gray and find creative or out-of-the-box solutions when faced with ambiguity
Experience of quarterly sales planning
Nice to Haves:
You've got strong technical chops
Direct sales plus experience of selling through Partners
New logo acquisition sales experience
Native Mandarin and fluent English skills
Experience selling productivity tools
We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers.

If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.


Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.


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