Commercial Sales Manager at Perplexity

ABOUT THE ROLE

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. You'll be responsible for hiring and ramping the team, coaching sellers through efficient, high-velocity sales cycles, and owning team revenue targets.

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

YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF

- 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