Director of New Business - Gaming
Expanding its North American business development team, Optimove is seeking a very smart, ambitious and self-starting sales manager for its SMB team. This is an exciting time to join a rapidly-growing tech company that is already an established market leader in the global gaming industry. You will be a crucial component in helping the company grow and continue to establish its foothold in the US.
In this position, you will generate, develop and expand business opportunities in the American gaming industry. You will interact with the highest-ranking executives of gaming operators. You will strive to understand their strategic marketing initiatives and business problems in order to educate and motivate them to embrace Optimove’s solution to meet their customer engagement needs. You will be managing the complete sales lifecycle and collaborate with all technical and customer-facing internal teams.
Responsibilities:
- Build genuine and effective new customer relationships and nurture from initial product demonstration through budgeting and pricing and up to closure
- Build an internal revenue plan reflecting her portfolio and prospect clients
- Deliver Web-based and in-person sales presentations and demonstrations of variable technical complexity, responding to changing business needs
- Generate your own opportunities leveraging existing relationships or through cold outreach
- Attend conferences and marketing events and generate quality opportunities
- Collaborate with Optimove data-science, customer success, marketing and professional services departments to improve the sales process and experience both internally and externally
- Occasional travel to meet prospects, customers and trade shows
Site:
North America
- BA/BS in Business/Finance or similar - advantage
- A strong interest and ability to rapidly learn and grasp technology and business concepts.
- A desire to work in and learn from a very multi-cultural and international environment
- Outstanding presentation skills and the ability to quickly adjust to unforeseen conversational shifts.
- First-rate interpersonal skills and relationship building
- Ability to work independently with a strong sense of initiative
- US Citizenship/Work permit - must!
- Experience in the online gaming industry or in software sales (SaaS) preferred