Vice President, Northern California/Northwest Region

🇺🇸In-Person - Northwest, CA$180K–$280K/yriJust now

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Role Snapshot

Senior sales leader who owns revenue growth, territory strategy, and sales team development across the Northern California/Northwest region. The role is field-based, with the majority of time spent coaching Regional Sales Managers and engaging customers directly.

Key Responsibilities: Achieve budgeted sales quota and KPIs, forecast revenue, and conduct ride-alongs and live customer meetings to coach sales professionals. Lead training and onboarding, analyze pipeline data, recruit and retain sales talent, and travel extensively across the region.

Skills & Tools: Strong hands-on selling ability across prospecting, discovery, presentation, negotiation, and closing, plus data-driven planning and forecasting. Strong coaching, leadership, relationship-building, and accountability skills, with a willingness to travel extensively.

Qualifications: A proven sales professional with years of personal success winning business and prior sales leadership experience. The employer did not specify a formal degree requirement.

Location: In-Person - Northwest, CA

Compensation: $180K–$280K/yr (estimated)

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Job Description

The Vice President of Outside Sales is the senior sales leader responsible for driving revenue growth and developing people across an assigned territory. This is not a desk-based leadership role. Our most successful Vice Presidents are highly visible in the field, spending the majority of their time alongside Regional Sales Managers and customers, coaching in real time, advancing opportunities and helping close business.

This role is ideal for a proven sales professional who has spent years winning business personally and who still enjoys being in front of customers. The Vice President owns the performance of the territory through hands-on coaching, ride-alongs, customer engagement and disciplined execution.

The right candidate is a true road warrior who thrives on travel, enjoys being in front of customers and is passionate about helping sales teams win.

Life out in the field looks like this:

Achieve annual budgeted sales quota and KPI targets for the region.
Forecast sales and drive revenue growth across your assigned territory.
Set strategy, priorities, and sales culture for region.
Spend time in the field conducting ride-alongs with Regional Sales Managers and participating in customer meetings.
Coach sales professionals in live selling situations, helping them improve prospecting, discovery, presentation, negotiation and closing skills.
Lead training and onboarding initiatives.
Personally engage with key customers, decision-makers and stakeholders to accelerate opportunities and secure new business.
Drive a high-performance culture by celebrating strong performance, coaching for improvement, and taking appropriate action when performance expectations are not met.
Use data as a tool to drive long-term growth by identifying pipeline gaps, developing action plans, and positioning territories, headcount, and resources where the greatest opportunities exist.
Recruit and retain high-performing sales talent.
Travel extensively throughout the region.

What Success Looks Like

Achieves annual budgeted sales quota.
Increased sales productivity and performance across the region.
Strong customer relationships and increased market share.
Visible leadership with a high level of customer and employee engagement.
Successful development of future sales leaders.
A highly engaged, motivated sales team that feels supported, challenged, and equipped to win.
A culture of accountability, execution, and continuous improvement.