Vice President of North America Sales - Financial
Prove is the modern platform for continuous identity authentication and is used by over 1,000 enterprises and 500 financial institutions including 9 of the top 10 U.S. banks. Prove’s cloud solutions and mobile intelligence -driven APIs can be easily orchestrated to increase Approve Rates to over 90%, enabling companies to authenticate customer identities accurately, effortlessly, and privately, while mitigating fraud. Prove’s solutions are available in 195 countries. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
As we continue to scale our company, we are looking for people who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smarts, but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans; we’re excited and optimistic about the future. If this sounds like a career for you – come check us out.
Prove is looking for a Vice President of North American Sales to join our rapidly expanding sales organization. You will be leading the North American team of Sales Directors that are breaking down doors in the Financial/Tier 1 Bank verticals. We are looking for a strong leader with a history of success growing revenue in an organization that is scaling rapidly.
What You Are Accountable For
- Manage the sales team, which includes business development reps for individual verticals and pipelines.
- Participate in strategic planning to develop revenue projections and actively engage in contract negotiations.
- Increase the tempo of new client acquisition by building a sustainable sales pipeline and decrease the length of the sales cycle.
- Monitor monthly, quarterly and annual quotas; analyze data and metrics; assess performance and ensure the company achieves annual revenue targets.
- Monitor the sales revenue pipeline and leads, adjusting as necessary to create sustainable growth.
- Lead team to meet activity metrics as well as bookings and revenue quota
- Shrink time to revenue by decreasing the length of time between customer acquisition and the go-live date.
- Coaches, supervises, and provides on-going training of assigned sales reps in technical knowledge, competitive knowledge, and sales skills knowledge
- Assists with recruiting for the team Monitors attainment versus forecast and assists with corrective action when necessary
- Evangelize the company by participating in industry events and trade shows.
- Initiates, participates in, and supervises on-going training of assigned sales representatives in technical knowledge, competitive knowledge, and sales skills knowledge
- Establish a trusted/strategic advisor relationship with clients and drive continued value of our products and services; advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally;
- Identify cross sell and upsell opportunities within the existing client base
- Support negotiations of contracts, renewals, amendments and SOWs by assessing delivery risk and developing mitigation plans to ensure performance
- Develop and regularly report on customer success KPIs that will measure implementation, product adoption, speed of revenue and client satisfaction
- Design, recruit, train and manage a team of customer success representatives
- Identify feature enhancements to our product through customer interaction;
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
What We Require
- 8-10 years of relevant experience with SaaS or direct B2B high-tech solutions.
- 5-7 years of sales leadership with emphasis on building out a team
- Track record of successfully scaling a profitable, worldwide sales organization.
- Prior responsibility for forecasting revenue, associated costs, direct and indirect sales goals, and team leadership.
- Experience working in a small, entrepreneurial company.
- Experience selling Identity or Security software and/or platform solutions into financial markets and across all channels direct; inside sales; partners; and strategic alliances.
- Experience with product launch; strategic and product marketing a plus
- Full appreciation for marketing-driven demand generation and experience leveraging marketing automation.
- Experience with Salesforce (CRM).
- Experience in cybersecurity, financial (risk, authentication and fraud) industries
- Ability to work with a fast-growing startup is required
- Experience in a high-growth tech startup growing from $50m to $200m in ARR
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions.
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics.