Enterprise Sales Director - Strategic

ABOUT US At Sierra, we’re building a platform to enable every company in the world to build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We partner with industry leaders such SoftBank, Uber, Rivian, CLEAR, and Sutter Health. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Architect Sierra's most complex deals: Lead our largest multi-BU, multi-geo opportunities, designing sophisticated deal structures and managing risk with precision and conviction. - Operate as part of the customer's team: Hold trusted relationships across the customer C-suite and working teams. - Engage at the founder level: Be trusted to regularly engage and manage Sierra's co-founders in front of customers, pitching with co-founder-like conviction and expertise. - Bring precision to everything: Operate with exacting craft in messaging, positioning, and timing across every interaction. - Shape strategy: Influence how Sierra approaches its most important accounts and set the standard for the broader sales org. - Operate as an AI-native seller: Leverage AI tools across the full sales cycle- account research, personalized outreach, call summarization, pipeline forecasting, and deal execution- to automate low-value tasks and reinvest that time into high-value customer relationships, while continuously adopting and experimenting with new tools to work faster and smarter than traditional methods allow. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 10-12+ years of enterprise/strategic sales experience, owning the largest and most complex accounts. - Demonstrated success closing multi-million-dollar, multi-stakeholder deals spanning business units and geographies. - Experience managing a $1M+ quota and running end-to-end complex 6- and 7-figure ACV deals. - Deep, sustained C-suite relationships and the gravitas to be treated as a peer by executive buyers. - Mastery of complex deal structuring, risk navigation, and pricing. - Exceptional executive communication and a reputation for precision and trust. EVEN BETTER... - Deep familiarity with the AI landscape and the ability to speak credibly to technical and business stakeholders alike. - Experience operating alongside founders/executives in front of strategic customers. OUR VALUES - Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work. - Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it. - Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right, we take the time to fix it. We are p…