About the Role
Attentive is looking for a Director, Mid-Market Sales to lead, develop, and scale a team of Mid-Market Account Executives responsible for acquiring new customers and driving revenue growth.
This is a hands-on sales leadership role for someone who knows how to build high-performing teams in outbound-driven, competitive sales environments. You'll be responsible for developing AEs who can create their own opportunities, challenge how prospects think about their business, run strategic discovery, multi-thread across stakeholders, and build urgency throughout the sales process.
We're looking for a leader who is equally comfortable coaching individual deals and building the systems, expectations, and culture that drive repeatable performance across a team.
The ideal candidate has experience leading Mid-Market SaaS sellers in a high-growth or earlier-stage environment where the playbook wasn't always fully built and success required creativity, accountability, and a bias toward action.
What You’ll Accomplish
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Mid-Market Account Executives responsible for net-new revenue generation.
- Build a high-performance culture centered around outbound prospecting, pipeline creation, accountability, and consistent execution.
- Coach AEs to run effective discovery, uncover meaningful business pain, challenge the status quo, and connect Attentive's platform to measurable customer outcomes.
- Develop sellers who can confidently engage and multi-thread across Marketing, Ecommerce, CRM, Finance, and executive stakeholders.
- Partner closely with AEs on deal strategy, including account planning, discovery, competitive positioning, business cases, objection handling, negotiation, and closing.
- Establish clear expectations around self-generated pipeline and coach reps on creative, account-specific outbound strategies.
- Own team forecasting, pipeline inspection, performance management, and attainment against revenue targets.
- Use data to identify trends across conversion, pipeline coverage, sales cycles, win rates, and individual rep performance—and translate those insights into action.
- Hire, onboard, and develop high-performing AEs while building clear expectations around what great looks like at each level.
- Partner cross-functionally with SDR, Marketing, Enablement, Revenue Operations, Solutions Consulting, and Customer Success to continuously improve Attentive's Mid-Market GTM motion.
- Bring insights from customers, prospects, and the field back to Product and Marketing to strengthen our positioning and go-to-market strategy.
- Help evolve the Mid-Market sales playbook as Attentive's product portfolio and market opportunity continue to expand.
Your Expertise
- 7+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience, including 3+ years of frontline sales management experience.
- Proven success leading Mid-Market Account Executives against new-business revenue targets.
- Experience in an outbound sales environment where AEs are expected to meaningfully contribute to their own pipeline.
- Strong coaching ability across prospecting, discovery, multi-threading, business-value selling, objection handling, negotiation, and closing.
- Experience implementing AI into team workflows with proven improvements in efficiency or revenue
- Experience with Challenger, MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, or another structured value-based/consultative sales methodology.
- Track record of developing sellers and improving performance through consistent, actionable coaching.
- Comfortable operating in a high-growth environment where processes and playbooks continue to evolve.
- Strong forecasting and pipeline-management discipline with the ability to use data to diagnose performance and prescribe solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to attract, assess, hire, and retain high-performing sales talent.
- Strong executive presence and ability to communicate clearly with customers, sellers, and senior leadership.
- High ownership mentality—you identify problems, develop solutions, and move quickly rather than waiting for perfect information.
About the Role
Attentive is looking for a Director of Sales, Mid-Market to lead, develop, and scale a team of Mid-Market Account Executives responsible for acquiring new customers and driving revenue growth.
This is a hands-on sales leadership role for someone who knows how to build high-performing teams in outbound-driven, competitive sales environments. You'll be responsible for developing AEs who can create their own opportunities, challenge how prospects think about their business, run strategic discovery, multi-thread across stakeholders, and build urgency throughout the sales process.
We're looking for a leader who is equally comfortable coaching individual deals and building the systems, expectations, and culture that drive repeatable performance across a team.
The ideal candidate has experience leading Mid-Market SaaS sellers in a high-growth or earlier-stage environment where the playbook wasn't always fully built and success required creativity, accountability, and a bias toward action.
What You’ll Accomplish
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Mid-Market Account Executives responsible for net-new revenue generation.
- Build a high-performance culture centered around outbound prospecting, pipeline creation, accountability, and consistent execution.
- Coach AEs to run effective discovery, uncover meaningful business pain, challenge the status quo, and connect Attentive's platform to measurable customer outcomes.
- Develop sellers who can confidently engage and multi-thread across Marketing, Ecommerce, CRM, Finance, and executive stakeholders.
- Partner closely with AEs on deal strategy, including account planning, discovery, competitive positioning, business cases, objection handling, negotiation, and closing.
- Establish clear expectations around self-generated pipeline and coach reps on creative, account-specific outbound strategies.
- Own team forecasting, pipeline inspection, performance management, and attainment against revenue targets.
- Use data to identify trends across conversion, pipeline coverage, sales cycles, win rates, and individual rep performance—and translate those insights into action.
- Hire, onboard, and develop high-performing AEs while building clear expectations around what great looks like at each level.
- Partner cross-functionally with SDR, Marketing, Enablement, Revenue Operations, Solutions Consulting, and Customer Success to continuously improve Attentive's Mid-Market GTM motion.
- Bring insights from customers, prospects, and the field back to Product and Marketing to strengthen our positioning and go-to-market strategy.
- Help evolve the Mid-Market sales playbook as Attentive's product portfolio and market opportunity continue to expand.
We'd Be Especially Excited If You Have
- Experience at an earlier-stage or high-growth SaaS company where you helped build or evolve the sales motion.
- Experience selling or leading teams selling into Marketing, Ecommerce, CRM, or other B2C business leaders.
- Martech, ecommerce technology, AI, or adjacent SaaS experience.
- Experience leading teams through a shift toward greater outbound/self-generated pipeline ownership.
- A track record of promoting AEs into larger segments or future leadership roles.
- Experience selling multi-product platforms or introducing new products into an existing sales motion.
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $145,000 - $185,000 annually + commission + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience
- 3+ years of frontline sales management experience
- Proven success leading Mid-Market Account Executives against new-business revenue targets
- Experience in an outbound sales environment where Account Executives contribute to their own pipeline
- Strong coaching ability across prospecting, discovery, multi-threading, business-value selling, objection handling, negotiation, and closing
- Experience implementing AI into team workflows with proven improvements in efficiency or revenue
- Experience with Challenger, MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, or another structured value-based or consultative sales methodology
- Track record of developing sellers and improving performance through consistent, actionable coaching
- Experience operating in a high-growth environment with evolving processes and playbooks
- Strong forecasting and pipeline-management discipline
- Ability to use data to diagnose performance and prescribe solutions
- Ability to attract, assess, hire, and retain high-performing sales talent
- Strong executive presence and clear communication with customers, sellers, and senior leadership
- High ownership mentality and ability to develop solutions and act quickly
- Experience at an earlier-stage or high-growth SaaS company where the sales motion was built or evolved
- Experience selling to or leading teams selling into Marketing, Ecommerce, CRM, or other B2C business leaders
- Martech, ecommerce technology, AI, or adjacent SaaS experience
- Experience leading teams through a shift toward greater outbound or self-generated pipeline ownership
- Track record of promoting Account Executives into larger segments or future leadership roles
- Experience selling multi-product platforms or introducing new products into an existing sales motion
Attentive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Attentive and has not been reviewed or approved by Attentive.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus a fully covered One Medical membership and mental health resources. Employer-paid options and added wellness stipends indicate strong support for physical and mental wellbeing.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are described as significant and a meaningful component of total compensation. Market-value cash pay paired with stock helps position overall packages as competitive.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave, fertility and family-forming benefits, and supports such as Milk Stork and travel reimbursement for necessary medical care are offered. These provisions signal robust support for families across different needs.
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What We Do
Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for leading brands, designed to optimize message performance through 1:1 SMS and email interactions. Infusing intelligence at every stage of the consumer’s purchasing journey, Attentive empowers businesses to achieve hyper-personalized communication with their customers on a large scale. Leveraging AI-powered tools, a mobile-first approach, two-way conversations, and enterprise-grade technology, Attentive drives billions in online revenue for brands around the globe. Trusted by over 8,000 leading brands such as CB2, Urban Outfitters, GUESS, Dickey’s Barbeque Pit, and Wyndham Resort, Attentive is the go-to solution for delivering powerful commerce experiences for consumers with the brands they love. To learn more about Attentive or to request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Why Work With Us
At Attentive, you'll connect with inspiring, high-caliber people, and be encouraged to take risks, get creative, and think bigger. We're solving big problems for our customers, through our innovative AI solutions, giving employees the opportunity to thrive along the journey. The sky's the limit when it comes to what's possible.
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