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.