AI Sales Strategy Manager (f/m/d)

IONOS EN; Berlin; Ibrido; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Hybrid work model

Flexible working hours

Subsidized canteen (at some locations)

Modern office with strong transport

Employee discounts

Employee events and training

Health offerings

Descrizione del lavoro

IONOS EN is seeking an AI Sales Strategy Manager to drive growth across brands like STRATO and IONOS by monetizing AI-driven contact channels.

Helming strategic sales initiatives, you will bridge automated AI interactions with human-driven sales to protect baselines and unlock incremental revenue. The role collaborates with BI, Training, Site Management, and external BPO partners to optimize the sales funnel.

Competenze

• Extensive experience in sales channel development, sales operations, or KPI-driven market steering in cloud/SaaS.
• Experience monetizing automated interaction channels (Voicebots, Chatbots, Mail AI).
• Strategic experience with external outsourcing providers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong skills in customer journey mapping and sales funnel management.

Mansioni

• Architect and execute end-to-end sales strategies across Voicebots, Chatbots, and Mail AI to transform routine support into monetized cross-sell and upsell channels.
• Translate proven empathy and objection-handling techniques into highly converting AI prompts and workflows.
• Oversee external BPO partner operations, providing strategic oversight to ensure high delivery standards and ROI.
• Implement targeted coaching models, sales guidelines, and performance incentives to boost human and AI-assisted conversion quality.
• Partner with BI and technical Interface Teams to translate sales targets into operational metrics and minimize revenue leakage.

Conoscenze

Sales channel development

KPI-driven market steering

Monetizing automated channels

Outsourcing management

Customer journey mapping

English & German fluency

Descrizione del lavoro

About IONOS

At IONOS, we don't just manage servers - we shape the digital future for more than 6.2 million customers worldwide with our solutions. As Europe's leading hosting provider and a pioneer in independent cloud solutions, we are building next-generation infrastructure - from sovereign cloud architectures and high-performance GPU clusters to integrated AI automation tools.

What drives us is digital sovereignty for Europe and real impact for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as large enterprises. We work in agile teams, rely on transparent structures, and believe that excellence and innovation only emerge through true team spirit.

The AI Sales Strategy Manager

The AI Sales Strategy Manager serves as a strategic growth catalyst within Customer Care Sales Operations. Positioned at the intersection of human service performance and digital automation, this role leads the strategic management of human sales channels across brands such as STRATO or IONOS while pioneering the commercialization of AI-driven contact channels. By bridging the critical gap between automated support interactions and active sales conversions, the role protects existing baselines and unlocks new incremental sales revenue.

You will act as the strategic linchpin, collaborating closely with technical Interface Teams to elevate AI performance to match human benchmarks. Your daily stakeholders include Business Intelligence, Training, and Site Management to optimize the sales funnel. You will also steer external outsourcing providers and align closely with Product Management and our in-house teams to ensure a unified global strategy.

Tasks

• Architect and execute end-to-end sales strategies across Voicebots, Chatbots, and Mail AI to transform routine support into monetized cross-sell and upsell channels.
• Analyze top-tier human sales interactions and translate proven empathy and objection-handling techniques into highly converting AI prompts and workflows.
• Oversee external BPO partner operations, providing strategic oversight to enforce high delivery standards and maximum contract ROI.
• Implement targeted coaching models, sales guidelines, and performance incentives to boost human and AI-assisted conversion quality.
• Partner with Business Intelligence and technical Interface Teams to translate overarching sales targets into operational metrics, eliminate revenue leakage, and drive incremental AI-generated revenue.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in sales channel development, sales operations, or KPI-driven market steering in a customer care or cloud/SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated understanding or practical experience in monetizing automated interaction channels (Voicebots, Chatbots, Mail AI).
• Strategic experience steering external outsourcing service providers and aligning senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong command of customer journey mapping, sales funnels, risk analysis, and budget planning.
• Business fluency in English and German is required; additional languages (e.g., French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish) are beneficial.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model.
• Flexible working hours through trust-based working hours.
• At some locations a subsidized canteen and various free drinks.
• Modern office space with very good transport connections.
• Various employee discounts for activities and products.
• Employee events such as summer and winter parties, as well as workshops.
• Numerous training and development opportunities.
• Various health offers, such as sports and health courses.

Application Note

We value diversity and welcome all applications - regardless of, for example, gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity, physical characteristics, marital status or any other irrelevant factor subject to applicable law.