Strategic Sales Director

Blacksmith Agency Llc; Remote; ZAR 1 335 000 - 1 552 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading web design and development agency based in South Africa seeks a seasoned sales professional to drive their sales strategies. You will build and manage a sales pipeline, ensuring the achievement of revenue targets while crafting processes for growth. Ideal candidates have over 8 years of outbound sales experience and are skilled in negotiating complex B2B deals. A competitive compensation package with uncapped commissions is offered, along with integrated support from SDRs and marketing teams.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Uncapped commissions

Vacation and health benefits

Qualifications

• 8+ years of outbound, net-new sales experience.
• Experience selling at a price point of $80k.
• Proven success in a remote sales environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, own, drive, and close the sales pipeline.
• Identify and implement improvements in the sales process.
• Attain or exceed personal and organizational revenue goals.

Skills

Outbound sales experience

Strong negotiation skills

Strategic mindset

B2B deal closing

Tools

SalesForce

Salesloft

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Job description

Join the Blacksmith Team!

An industry-leading web design & development agency, we transform our client's digital presence by forging cutting-edge, custom web solutions that are firmly rooted in user experience and extensive data.

We have all the tools you need to continue building your sales career while solving complex and thought-provoking business problems for great brands like Google, Voss Water, General Electric, Arizona State University and many others.

This role will play a pivotal role in our organization's success.

You’ll be responsible for developing and executing sales strategies, driving our sales team to exceed targets, and crafting processes that support a growing organization.

If you’re a self‑motivated, goal‑oriented seller with a background in tech, SaaS or consulting, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our company's continued growth.

What We've Done

• Proven product‑market fit, growing from $0‑3M in 3 years
• A+ Sales Talent: Account Executives have consistently hit or exceeded quota
• Sales Structure: SDRs support lead generation, Sales Ops supports our SalesForce instance, tried & tested playbook for success, etc.
• Scalable tech stack: SalesForce, Salesloft, LI Sales Nav, Growth Hack tools, etc.

Benefits

• Proven and repeatable sales process + the ownership to improve on a well‑defined playbook
• Competitive compensation package including uncapped commissions
• SDR and marketing team to feed leads
• Vacation, holidays, health, dental, vision, K, etc.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of outbound, net‑new sales experience
• Experience selling at our price point: $80k-$k
• Selling into Marketing & the Executive Suite
• Experience selling in a remote environment
• Proven success meeting or exceeding quota
• Negotiating and closing complex B2B deals
• Iterating upon and/or redesigning sales playbooks
• Mindset of a strategist and tactician: you thrive in a scrappy, startup environment, moving quickly, thinking strategically, and are superb at tactical execution

Responsibilities

• Build, own, drive, and close sales pipeline
• Identify improvements in sales process and modify as you see fit
• Contribute towards our collaborative, high‑performing remote culture
• Attain or exceed your personal and organization’s revenue goals

Location: preference to candidates located in South Africa