Strategic Sales Manager - Network API

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Home, KS, USA
In-Office
120K-158K Annually
Expert/Leader
Information Technology • Productivity • Software
The Role
The Strategic Sales Manager drives revenue growth for Network API solutions through co-selling, overseeing complex deals, and collaborating with various teams to enhance sales effectiveness.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!

Vonage Communications APIs: 

As an emerging leader in the $10B+ communications API market, we empower global brands to connect better with their customers, employees, and partners through transformative communications experiences. For example, Vonage API solutions empower organizations to build their custom omnichannel communications structure. This allows them to reach and engage customers on their preferred schedule and channel — including voice, video, and messaging. Think of a rideshare service instantly connecting with customers, hospital staff conducting remote monitoring, customers verifying their identity before completing a purchase, AI virtual agents servicing customers around the clock, and much more.

Why this role matters: 

The Strategic Sales Overlay is responsible for driving incremental, high-value revenue growth for the Network Powered Solution by co-selling alongside core account teams, shaping complex deals, and accelerating adoption of NWPS. This role does not replace core sellers; instead, it amplifies sales effectiveness, ensures solution-led selling, and enables repeatable, scalable revenue across priority verticals and strategic customers.

The Overlay acts as the commercial quarterback for the NWPS solution working with core account sales lead —bridging product, engineering, GTM, and sales—to ensure the right opportunities are pursued, positioned, and closed.

Your key responsibilities: 

Revenue Growth & Deal Acceleration

  • Own a dedicated overlay revenue quota aligned to strategic BU targets.
  • Drive incremental pipeline creation, deal progression, and close velocity through joint selling with core sales teams.
  • Identify, qualify, and prioritize high-value use cases and lighthouse customers aligned to BU strategy.
  • Lead commercial strategy for complex, multi-stakeholder deals, including pricing, packaging, and value articulation.

Co-Sell & Field Enablement

  • Partner with core Account Executives, Regional Sales Leaders, and Channel teams to embed BU solutions into active sales motions.
  • Act as the subject-matter expert for the NWPS solutions, differentiation, and business outcomes.
  • Coach and enable sales teams on use-case selling, ROI narratives, and customer value propositions.
  • Ensure consistent positioning and messaging across regions and verticals.

Go-to-Market Execution

  • Translate BU strategy into field-executable GTM motions, including vertical plays, bundles, and offers.
  • Provide direct feedback to Product and GTM teams on customer requirements, objections, and competitive dynamics.
  • Support development of sales assets, playbooks, and reference architectures to drive repeatability.

Pipeline & Forecast Discipline

  • Maintain accurate pipeline visibility and forecasting for overlay-owned opportunities.
  • Track leading indicators such as pipeline coverage, conversion rates, deal cycle time, and attach rates.
  • Ensure deals meet margin, scalability, and strategic fit criteria.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Serve as the primary commercial interface between Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Success for BU opportunities.
  • Support executive-level customer engagements, workshops, and strategic reviews.
  • Champion a culture of collaboration, accountability, and outcome-driven execution.

What you’ll bring: 

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in B2B2x enterprise or solution sales, including overlay or specialist roles
  • Proven track record of co-selling and influencing without direct ownership of accounts
  • Experience driving revenue for complex, technology-led solutions (cloud, APIs, platforms, AI, network services, SaaS, etc.)
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to engage C-level stakeholders
  • Data-driven approach to pipeline, forecasting, and deal management

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience operating in matrixed, global sales organizations
  • Background in launching or scaling new products or strategic business units
  • Familiarity with vertical-led GTM motions and partner-driven ecosystems

Behavioral Attributes

  • Strategic thinker with a builder’s mindset and customer obsession
  • Highly collaborative; thrives in overlay and influence-based roles
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-moving, growth-oriented environments
  • Outcome-focused, disciplined, and commercially astute
How you’ll benefit:
  • In addition to providing exciting work, career advancement opportunities, and a collaborative work environment, Vonage provides competitive pay and benefits including Discretionary time off, Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance and 401(k).
  • Additional benefits and perks will be shared and discussed with you by the recruiter during the interview process

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$120,304$157,899 USD

There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

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Who we are:

Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location. 

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of experience in B2B2x enterprise or solution sales
  • Proven track record of co-selling and influencing without direct ownership of accounts
  • Experience driving revenue for complex, technology-led solutions
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to engage C-level stakeholders
  • Data-driven approach to pipeline, forecasting, and deal management
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The Company
HQ: Holmdel, NJ
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

We’re making communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal, to help enterprises the world over stay ahead. We provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs, built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform.

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