Public Sector Sales Director

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity. 

As an organization, we are looking for Team8s who are AI-proficient, open to innovation, and skilled in leveraging AI for efficiency and growth.

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We are seeking a proven, tactical and strategic Public Sector Sales Director to lead a team of Account Executives who are tasked with generating growth in Public Sector Accounts. The appointed sales leader will play a key role in leading this highly visible and motivated team that generates revenues and achieves individual, team and organizational quotas. You'll be a valuable contributor to the corporate sales strategy while providing definition and implementation of the plan for Sales to achieve Regional Sales objectives.
This is a high growth opportunity working with key strategic businesses and it will involve you positioning our best-in-class solutions across Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Centers and more to businesses looking to transform their processes
Responsibilities
Supporting direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings
Engaging other corporate resources as required
Define Sales goals with leadership team and implement processes, infrastructure and hiring to execute against set goals and quotas
Support direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings, engaging other corporate resources as required
Ongoing mentoring and development of the sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and training new Reps on sales process
Conducting weekly forecast meetings
Coach direct reports regarding strategies to drive closure
Reporting on sales activity and forecast to senior sales management
Consistently monitoring the sales activity of the team, and tracking the results
Qualifications
A strong background in SaaS, Enterprise Software and Communications Sales preferably with experience in Contact Center
Extensive track record of new business sales supported by strong presentation and negotiation skills within Public Sector Customers and at C Level
Strong success in recruiting, coaching and managing an exceptional sales team
Strong strategic thinking including analytical and financial planning skills to meet and exceed quotas
Experience working with and developing Channel relationships
Understanding of multiple Sales Methodologies particularly relevant to today's Enterprise SaaS and Cloud Communications industry
Experienced in driving sales process and drive effective working relationships with Sales Operations
A proven ability to build long term strategic and senior-level relationships
Ability to adapt and work effectively within a rapidly changing and growing environment

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