Base Salary: $75,000-$135,000 per year + Commission & Performance Bonuses
We are seeking an experienced National Sales Director to recruit, develop, train, and lead our growing merchant-services sales organization.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, and train ISO/1099 sales agents and sales representatives.
- Lead, coach, supervise, and hold sales teams accountable for performance.
- Drive new merchant accounts, processing volume, revenue, and profitability across small-business and high-volume merchant markets.
- Train representatives on merchant-services products, pricing, statement analysis, competitive positioning, POS solutions, and consultative selling.
- Establish sales goals, KPIs, performance expectations, and accountability systems.
- Develop agent compensation plans, incentive programs, and sales strategies.
- Build and manage inside and outside sales organizations, lead generation, and sales pipelines.
- Collaborate with Operations, Underwriting, Risk Management, and processors to ensure efficient merchant boarding.
- Monitor team performance, improve results, and scale a high-performing national sales organization.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of direct merchant services/payment processing industry experience.
- 3+ years of successful sales management or leadership experience.
- Proven experience recruiting, training, coaching, and managing ISO/1099 merchant-services agents or payment sales representatives.
- Strong knowledge of merchant acquiring, interchange, pricing, residuals, merchant statements, underwriting, risk, chargebacks, and merchant boarding.
- Experience with Fiserv, TSYS, or comparable acquiring platforms.
- Experience selling processing solutions to small businesses and high-volume merchants.
- Knowledge of POS systems, terminals, gateways, e-commerce, and integrated payment technologies.
- Experience developing compensation plans, lead-generation strategies, and inside/outside sales teams.
- Strong leadership, recruiting, communication, and organizational skills with a proven record of meeting sales and revenue goals.
- Ability to work on-site at our La Verne, California office.
What We're Looking For
- Candidates should be prepared to discuss measurable results, including sales representatives managed, agents recruited, merchant accounts boarded, processing volume, portfolio growth, and revenue growth.
- Applicants must have direct professional experience in merchant services, payment processing, or merchant acquiring. General sales management experience alone does not qualify.
Compensation
- Base Salary: $75,000-$135,000 annually, based on relevant industry experience.
- Commission and performance-based bonuses
- Significant advancement opportunities based on performance
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance