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Director of Sales, Ring & Blink

Amazon · Minneapolis, MN · 2 wk ago
AdvertisingFull-time

Key job responsibilities

  • Define and execute short- and long-range strategic plans to consistently meet or exceed business growth objectives across Ring and Blink product portfolios.
  • Identify and develop growth opportunities with strategic retail partners, expanding distribution, share of shelf, and brand presence.
  • Set challenging yet achievable goals and priorities that align with broader organizational objectives.
  • Leverage an AI-first mindset to transform sales processes, accelerate decision-making, and force-multiply team output.
  • Deploy AI-driven solutions across the sales organization including automated forecasting (CPFR), competitive intelligence, promotional planning, and content generation.
  • Build scalable, AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual effort and allow the team to operate with greater speed, precision, and insight than traditional sales organizations.
  • Move initiatives from concept to execution with speed and precision — navigating senior leadership to secure buy-in and activating teams to deliver.
  • Negotiate retail business models, including terms, promotional frameworks, and partnership structures with national accounts.
  • Serve as a change agent — driving business improvements, new initiatives, and scalable processes across the organization.
  • Own and drive the sales playbook with a customer-first approach across National Accounts (Costco, Lowes, and others).
  • Leverage all aspects of the retail relationship — distribution, merchandising, pricing, product placement, and marketing programs — to maximize sell-through and brand growth.
  • Use business intelligence, data, metrics, and insights to inform decision-making and optimize performance.
  • Lead and develop a team of experienced sales and account managers while building organizational capability as the business scales.
  • Cultivate a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with marketing, finance, supply chain, and product teams to drive accurate sales forecasting, planning, and budgeting.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align go-to-market strategies with product launches, inventory planning, and promotional calendars.

    Basic Qualifications

    • Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels.
    • Experience positioning and selling innovative solutions to new and existing customers and market segments.
    • Experience proactively growing customer relationships within an account while expanding their understanding of the customer's business.
    • Knowledge of procurement and source to pay processes and solutions or equivalent experience.
    • Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications.
    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • 5+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience.
    • Knowledge of trends and needs to improve an already closed large-scale technology deal.
    • 3+ years of management experience in building and developing retail teams of 10 or more members, or 3+ years of customer-facing retail, hospitality, or grocery industry experience.

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