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    Principal, Senior Sales Manager

    Zayo Group

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    🇺🇸 United States
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    Posted Today
    $130k–$156kOTE

    Hybrid

    Work Type

    Remote

    Source

    himalayas

    About this role

    Company DescriptionZayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers.

    Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.Zayo is seeking a Principal, Sr. Sales Manager to lead a team supporting Medium and Large Enterprise Accounts. The successful Principal, Sr.

    Sales Manager will execute and drive team selling initiatives that develop customer relationships and drive sales of metro and national backbone solutions, as well as data center and corporate connectivity. The Principal, Sr. Sales Manager is responsible for providing coaching, leadership, and development to a team of Sales professionals, as well as providing sales leadership within Zayo.

    This role will drive the team to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals and provide guidance and counsel throughout the sales process to drive the sales cycle to closure. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of telecommunications and Security with the ability to work on large, complex deals applying a consultative and trusted advisor approach.

    Location: This remote work role will consider applicants that reside in the Phoenix area.

    Responsibilities Lead a team to generate sales revenue by actively promoting Zayo products and services to targeted account base Provide coaching to team of Sales representatives in the sale of Zayo products and services to regional account patch Oversee the teams’ recruiting, hiring, and training program; including participation in training new hires as they are on boarded.

    Working closely with Direct Sales and Product Groups Through coa

    Commission Structure

    Base Salary

    Not disclosed — ask in interview

    Commission

    Structure not specified

    OTE

    $156k (range: $130k–$156k)

    Ramp Period

    Not mentioned — clarify timeline

    Selling Motion

    Sales Cycle

    Enterprise

    6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals

    Buyer Persona

    Manager-Level

    Departmental buyers and team leads

    Territory

    Named Accounts

    Pre-assigned list of target companies

    Requirements at a Glance

    Bachelor's Degree·Required

    Typical Day — Sales Manager

    Executive deal support3–5/week
    Forecast & commit2×/week
    Strategic deal coaching3–5/week

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    Role Signals

    Green Flags

    ✓
    Career Development

    Structured growth path

    ✓
    Remote Friendly

    Location flexibility

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    Sales-Manager
    Regional-Sales-Manager
    Senior-Sales-Management
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    Role Insights

    Sales leadership roles require balancing individual contributor revenue with team performance management.

    This remote-friendly role provides geographic flexibility while maintaining access to a growing market.

    The compensation range of $130k–$156k OTE suggests a competitive package for this market segment.

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