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


















