Head of Sales, USA

Note: Partly has offices in London (UK), Christchurch (NZ) and Austin (Texas),. Wherever you're based, we'll connect you with your nearest office for onboarding, and fly you to join the full team for our quarterly "Season Openers" (we cover travel and accommodation). If you're relocating to join us, we can also assist with relocation costs.

Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts and we're doing that by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Our big vision is to accelerate the world toward a sustainable future where anyone can fix anything.

Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilise cutting-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry. We've more than tripled our team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months. We're a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia.

We provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Partly's solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online.

Our investors in Blackbird Ventures (Canva, CultureAmp etc.), Square Peg, Octopus Ventures, Icehouse, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-Founder) and Dylan Field (Figma Co-Founder).

We're continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring Partly is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. We're proud of the culture we've built at Partly, and our values are lived throughout every experience.

This is a foundational leadership role, not a role for someone who wants to inherit an existing machine.

As Partly's first Head of / Director of Sales, USA, you will build our US commercial function from the ground up. You will lead a team of three enterprise sales reps and personally carry key deals in the early phase while the team ramps.

You will set the US commercial strategy, define how we show up to enterprise customers, and create the playbook that makes Partly's US revenue engine repeatable and scalable.

This is the most senior commercial role in North America. You will report directly to our CEO and represent the US business to global leadership. If we get this right, this role grows significantly as Partly scales.

If you have built enterprise sales teams in complex, technical markets from early-stage and you are excited by the challenge of doing it again at a company with genuine global momentum, this role is built for you.

This position must be based in Austin, Texas. We will cover reasonable relocation costs for anyone considering a move.

• Lead the US sales team

  • Manage, coach, and develop three enterprise sales reps

  • Set individual targets, pipeline expectations, and account strategies for each rep

  • Create a high-performance, accountable team culture from day one in Texas

• Own US commercial outcomes

  • Be accountable for US pipeline, conversion, and revenue targets

  • Personally close key enterprise deals in the early phase alongside your team

  • Report US commercial performance to our Chief Strategy Officer and global leadership weekly

• Define the US GTM strategy

  • Set segment priorities: which customers we go after first and why

  • Define deal structure principles, pilot frameworks, and commercial terms for the US market

  • Work with Marketing on US positioning, thought leadership, and demand generation

• Build the playbook

  • Document what works across segment, deal type, and buyer persona

  • Establish repeatable sales motions and hand them off as they mature

  • Feed learnings back to Product, Solutions, and global leadership

• Scale the team

  • Hire additional US sales headcount as the business grows

  • Build the US office culture: recruiting, onboarding, rituals, and performance standards

Want to learn more about the problems we're solving and the culture we're building at Partly? Hear directly from our team here: https://shorturl.at/iAFUX

• Proven track record building and leading enterprise B2B sales teams from early-stage in complex, technical markets

• Experience selling into or leading teams that sell into the US automotive, or adjacent supply chain sectors

• Demonstrated ability to personally close large, first-of-kind enterprise deals while managing a team

• Strong commercial judgment: you can set strategy, prioritise accounts, and make quick calls with limited information

• Credibility at the C-suite and VP level with large US enterprise customers

• Builder mindset: you are energised by creation, not by managing an existing function

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, globally distributed, high-accountability environment

• Experience establishing a new market or geographic office from scratch

Please note: if you don't have all the skills/experience listed above but believe you could be outstanding in this role, please still consider applying. Many folks often count themselves out. Please allow us to learn more about you and why you're exceptional.

• High trust, low process and no bureaucracy. We hire exceptional people whose judgment we trust.

• Competitive base salary + equity + commission. Senior equity package reflecting the seniority and foundational nature of this role.

• Flexible working hours with an office-first approach in our Texas HQ.

• Focus Days. Two days per week dedicated to uninterrupted deep work.

• Take time when you need it.

• Quarterly Season Openers: fly to London or NZ with the global team for a week of collaboration and planning. We cover all travel and accommodation.

• Annual global offsite in New Zealand.

• Parental leave and flexible return to work.