Sales Director

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Sales Director driving Velo3D’s metal 3D-printing sales across U.S. defense and government sectors. Building contract pipelines, closing major deals, and achieving booking goals.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead Velo3D’s sales efforts in metal 3D printing within the Defense and Government sectors
  • Develop the sales pipeline of direct government contracts and opportunities
  • Develop opportunities with a limited number of prime contractors
  • Meet booking goals and close new contracts and booking amounts at or above company goals
  • Sell to government entities, defense primes, aerospace, defense, energy/oil & gas, industrial pump and turbo-machinery OEMs, and metal production parts contract manufacturers
  • Build business relationships with government and target industrial companies and their manufacturing supply base
  • Explain the technical value proposition and help customers create business value and solve critical problems
  • Lead sales campaigns using cross-functional team members to close, retain, and upsell business
  • Identify and engage key customer roles to drive alignment
  • Work with Sales and Marketing leadership on strategic engagement and lead-generation initiatives

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 10 years of sales achievement experience selling capital equipment such as automation, manufacturing equipment, machinery, or other complex systems
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen due to work on government contracts
  • Proven ability to meet or exceed sales targets of $15–20M per year
  • Ability to expand the customer base through proactive lead generation
  • Sales and/or sales leadership experience with a startup
  • Experience with Salesforce CRM
  • Strong reference customers satisfied with solutions sold in the defense space
  • Proven hunter who finds and closes new customer business to beat quota
  • Experience selling capital equipment such as 5-axis CNCs, metal AM systems, or strategic design/manufacturing systems, with sales achievement over $10M per year
  • Security clearance preferred but not required
  • BS degree in engineering preferred

Benefits:

  • Healthcare coverage
  • 401(K) employer contributions
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Potential bonus program participation
  • Potential equity program participation
  • Team member appreciation awards