On-site
SaaS
arbeitnow
🇩🇪 German
About this role
Germany runs on its small and medium businesses, and far too much of their money and attention goes into staying compliant. Bookkeeping, VAT returns, annual accounts: unavoidable work that nobody wants and everybody overpays for. We take it off them. Because none of it is optional,
what we are building is infrastructure rather than software, and the purpose is simple: make it cheaper to run a company in Germany. 100 to more than 700 customers in eight months, and still a small team. So these roles are broad by design. You own an area, not a slice of one, there is more to build than there are people, and the scope grows as fast as you do.
We work in English internally, as the team is international, but the market is German. Tasks You own our sales engine: the team, the numbers and the motions we sell through.
What you inherit on day one. Two sales people, one freelance closer, and everything our COO and CFO has been carrying alongside his actual job. So you are a playing coach for the first months: you carry your own book, you coach two people, and you hire the next ones yourself rather than being handed a team. Our pipeline today is almost entirely inbound.
Outbound is a motion we expect to build, and we do not yet know how large a part of the mix it becomes. We need somebody who has run both, because the answer depends on
what you find. We have deliberately not decided what the sales team should look like. There are too many sensible ways to build one, and the right shape depends on which motions prove out. You design that structure with us and then you hire it, which is why hiring experience is not negotiable in this role.
what you will do
Own win rate, cycle time and average contract value as your numbers, per motion rather than in aggregate Own sales operations and bring structure to a team that has grown without much of it: process, cadence, forecasting, routing rules, quota and commission design, a CRM somebody can trust Design the shape of the sales team wit
Commission Structure
Base Salary
Not disclosed — ask in interview
Commission
Yes
Ramp Period
Not mentioned — clarify timeline
Selling Motion
Prospecting
Hybrid
Mix of inbound leads and outbound prospecting
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Typical Day — Sales Manager
Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.
SaaS — Interview Intel
Typical Sales Cycle
30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)
Common Buyer Objections
- "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
- "We built something in-house already"
- "We don't have budget until next quarter"
- "Our team won't adopt another tool"
Key Industry Metrics
Hot Topics to Reference
- • AI-native product disruption
- • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
- • Vertical SaaS consolidation
- • Usage-based pricing models
Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.
Tags
How do you coach underperforming reps?
Template questionDescribe your forecasting methodology.
Template questionHow do you structure onboarding for new hires?
Template questionSales leadership roles require balancing individual contributor revenue with team performance management.
Expect to work with recurring revenue models where customer retention is as important as acquisition.
The German market values structured sales processes and typically offers strong base salaries alongside performance incentives.
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