Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.
The Role
As a Senior Sales Manager, you will be at the forefront of expanding our global footprint, driving sales of our cutting-edge Spotter Buoy platform. You’ll work with a diverse portfolio of clients, leveraging your expertise to identify opportunities, build relationships, and close deals that drive both business value and environmental impact.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Develop and execute a strategic sales plan for the Middle East market.
- Build and maintain relationships with high-level decision-makers, influencers, and partners.
- Lead the end-to-end sales process, including prospecting, qualification, proposal development, negotiation, and contract closure.
- Understand client needs deeply and position the Spotter’s unique value proposition effectively.
- Collaborate with internal teams (product, marketing, engineering) to align solutions with market demand and customer requirements.
- Provide market insights and feedback to inform product and go-to-market strategies.
- Work with and manage channel sales partners to develop business in new regions.
- Represent Sofar at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities in the region.
About You
You’re an experienced sales leader with a proven track record of success in selling high-tech hardware or solutions. You’re also an entrepreneur at heart, capable of jumpstarting the geographical go-to-market strategy from the ground up. You thrive on building relationships, navigating complex sales cycles, and closing impactful deals. Most importantly, you share our passion for leveraging technology to better understand and protect our oceans.
- 5+ years of experience in hardware or solution sales, preferably in maritime, environmental tech, or related industries.
- Strong understanding of the Middle East market and its unique challenges and opportunities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and grow a sales pipeline, with a history of meeting or exceeding revenue targets.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluent in English
- Willingness to travel as needed to meet clients and attend events.
Bonus Points
- Background in marine sensor or offshore service business development
- Multi-lingual
Sofar's Commitment to Climate Justice
We at Sofar Ocean acknowledge that careers in the marine sciences “... have traditionally been, and remain, non-diverse work environments”, thereby limiting the entry and prosperity of underrepresented groups in the space. (Johri et al., 2021) Many of these same groups are disproportionately affected by climate change, and are often excluded from decision making that directly address their interests and needs.
We are committed to addressing these climate injustices and highly encourage people who identify as women, LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) to apply
It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers, and vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.
Top Skills
What We Do
Sofar connects the world's oceans to power a more sustainable future. Sofar unlocks ocean data at scale. We deployed hundreds of Spotters globally to create the world’s largest privately-owned network of ocean sensors that collects 1.5 million real-time observations daily. Our team of ocean scientists assimilates this real-time data into our marine weather forecasts, which are up to 50% more accurate than traditional models.
In maritime shipping, we use these high-accuracy forecasts and vessel performance models to provide optimized guidance and save ships time, fuel, and emissions. We also equip researchers, operators, and innovators with our devices and data to power marine research and sustainable commercial solutions. Customers access data from our global sensor network and deploy our extensible Spotter platform to collect real-time surface and subsurface observations.
Sofar’s team of engineers, ocean scientists, and business professionals is based in San Francisco, California.
_0.png)
