# Commercial Sales Manager

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $300K - $380K
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Commercial Sales Manager at Perplexity, you'll lead a team of Commercial Account Executives selling Perplexity Enterprise and Computer to small and mid-sized organizations.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Commercial Account Executives, providing regular feedback to drive individual and team performance

- Own team revenue, logo, and activity targets, with accountability for pipeline creation, deal velocity, and forecast accuracy

- Hire, onboard, and ramp new Account Executives in partnership with Recruiting and Enablement

- Coach the team on outbound prospecting, account prioritization, and converting existing self-serve customers into Enterprise relationships

- Help AEs qualify with discipline and run efficient sales cycles from discovery through close, partnering with Enterprise AEs when an account warrants a larger motion

- Run a regular cadence of 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and deal reviews, maintaining accurate Salesforce data and forecasts

- Partner with Enablement, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and RevOps to translate field feedback into action

Requirements:

- 5+ years of SaaS sales experience selling to small and mid-sized organizations, with 2+ years directly managing quota-carrying Account Executives

- A track record of meeting or exceeding team revenue targets in a high-growth environment

- Experience hiring, ramping, and developing sellers

- Experience coaching teams to generate their own pipeline through outbound and product-led signals in a high-velocity sales motion

- Strong command of Salesforce, pipeline management, and forecasting

- Background selling technical products, ideally AI, data, or infrastructure

- Comfort operating without an established playbook

Compensation:

- $300K – $380K

- Offers Equity

Benefits:

- Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- SaaS sales
- Salesforce
- pipeline management
- forecasting
- AI
- data
- infrastructure

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