Manager Sales Development

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done seamlessly connecting docs notes projects calendar and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users from individuals to large organizations like Toyota Figma and OpenAI love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

Notion is looking for a Sales Development Manager in New York NY or San Francisco CA that will recruit develop & lead a highly driven and hardworking team of Sales Development Representatives (Inbound) & Business Development Representatives (Outbound). We are looking for someone who is passionate about building a winning team and coaching & elevating the craft of new sellers at Notion. The Sales Development team is the first interaction with prospective Notion customers and is key to the success of our Sales organization!

At Notion the Sales Development team is responsible for driving new business opportunities and expanding market share through qualified pipeline as well as driving the business forward by developing the next generation of top closers. As the Sales Development Lead you will be responsible for delivering both revenue and talent for our business. You will focus on the Recruitment Enablement and Execution of your team to assure the continued successful trajectory of this strategically important department.

Our ideal candidate for this role has proven experience in managing building and encouraging a team to achieve daily weekly and monthly/quarterly targets in addition to delivering feedback to marketing and sales operations about lead quality and process improvements.

1. As an AMER Sales Development Manager you will work directly with Sales Managers cross functionally with Marketing Leadership & Revenue Operations Leadership in creating and developing Notion’s Sales Development strategy process and playbooks

2. Partnering with regional leaders across Sales Strategy Marketing and Sales teams to plan territory mapping and pipeline development programs

3. Build winning teams through Attracting Hiring and Developing the world’s best xDRs

4. Enable your team to relentlessly prospect identify and qualify sales pipeline through your coaching and mentoring on topics including courageous qualification prospecting techniques phone skills and strategic engagement with Account Executives

5. Collaborate with Marketing and Sales teams to ensure we capitalize on the massive market opportunity ahead of us

6. Help build the foundations of Sales at Notion: As an early member of our sales org you'll be instrumental in helping define our sales assisted motions.

7. Join a fantastic team at a magical time: We've hit profitability and over 100 million users with a small team which gives us a huge green field to work with. You'll join at the perfect time to shape how we grow from here.

8. Meaningfully shape our future product: As you engage with customers you'll gain insights to help us serve them better — and work with the product to inform what we do next.

9. Elevate your skills as we tackle our most impactful challenges: We've achieved more than teams 10x our size in less time — and there's so much more to do and learn.

• Experience including either

  • 1-2 years managing a high-performing Sales Development team

  • 1-2 years Account Executive experience (and strong performance) at a SaaS company; after having successfully made the leap from Sales Development to Account Executive

• Strong track record of achieving sales targets across team and individual goals

• Skilled in managing and coaching early-career salespeople

• You have strong recognized leadership skills with a focus on empowerment positive mindsets collaboration and the ability to inspire a team of direct reports

• You are comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of iteration of a high growth startup

• You have a growth mindset and thrive in the building stage of an early stage team

• You view setbacks as learning opportunities not failures

• You have a high EQ and exceptional interpersonal skills the ability to manage influence through persuasion negotiation and consensus-building

• You have an analytical mindset and enjoy problem-solving as part of a regional leadership team

• You have strong empathy for customers and a passion for revenue and growth

• You have a good understanding of value selling

• You don’t need to be an AI expert but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results

• You've built new business sales playbooks or processes

• You've been a first or early hire at a fast-growing start-up before

• Experience leading and improving Sales Development critical metrics

• Experience running successful weekly and monthly team meetings

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.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds not just because it's the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses you will find a home at Notion.

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.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation equity and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location the role’s scope and complexity and the candidate’s experience and expertise and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco and New York City the estimated range for total on-target earnings (including base salary and on target incentive pay) for this role is $195000 - $205000 per year.

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