<p>Location: United States</p><br/><p>Employment Type: Full-time</p><br/><p>Team: Sales</p><br/><div><b>What We’re Building</b></div><div>Honeycomb defined the concept of observability and is raising expectations of what our developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 150-person mark, and were named to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/honeycomb%2Eio_its-not-often-that-we-like-to-toot-our-own-activity-6907007050136600576-WG1z?utm_source=linkedin_share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web" class="postings-link">Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022</a>! </div><div><br></div><div>Honeycomb is built to help engineering teams deeply explore and understand their own production systems — in real time. It's a service for the near future and present, where distributed systems are the new default, every service is a platform, and empowered generalist software engineers are the new ops. We are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to build a product that raises our industry's expectations of what tools can do for technical teams.</div><div><br></div><div>As the Sales Manager, you will be our leader in the market and help build and lead a dynamic sales team and help Honeycomb surpass our growth goals and realize our potential. The right candidate is responsible for building and leading a world class regional sales team, executing our growth plans for your territory, executing sales methodology and processes with your team, and partnering with the customer success, marketing, product, engineering and operations teams to deliver the best possible customer <a href="http://experience.the/" class="postings-link">experience.</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>*Please note we are hiring this role for the east coast and the candidate must reside there.*</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Who We Are </b></div><div>We come for the impact, and stay for the culture!  We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live <a href="https://www.honeycomb.io/about/#OurValues" class="postings-link"><u>our values</u></a> every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers. </div><div><br></div><div><b>How We Work</b></div><div>We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. <i>#LI-Remote</i></div><h3>What You'll Do in the Role: </h3><br/><ul><li>Build and manage a team of Account Executives focused on driving Honeycomb ARR</li><li>Achieve growth and sales targets through successful management of the sales team</li><li>Design and implement a strategic sales plan for your focus region that enables honeycomb to land new customers and expand our ARR with existing customer relationships</li><li>Forecast your business to provide accurate data to leadership on how each individual on the team and the team overall will perform this quarter and this year.</li><li>Build pipeline to achieve future sales targets, both through partnership with marketing to support inbound opportunity conversion and through the team’s outbound efforts to identify new opportunities</li><li>Manage recruiting, objectives setting, coaching and performance monitoring of account executives on your team.</li><li>Provide coaching and development to your team as you work to improve their skills, behaviors, and performance</li><li>Develop strong cross functional relationships to support Honeycomb growth and ensure market feedback makes it way back to the organization. </li><li>Drive accountability for our sales methodologies, systems, processes, and data.</li><li>Proactively identify process/technology gaps we have as a GTM team and partner with the appropriate teams to develop a data backed hypothesis to solve</li><li>Develop a culture that enables the AEs to learn and grow in each deal, while you collaborate with them on deal support</li><li>Accountable to our culture of diversity, development, and the personal/professional growth of our sales teams.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h3>What You'll Bring to the Role: </h3><br/><ul><li>Experience managing &amp; leading a regional sales team of enterprise individual contributors in a SaaS organization, preferably with experience in the IT applications or observability space.</li><li>Experience selling and managing teams which sell to the core personas in Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Observability, etc. </li><li>A “customer first” mindset, prioritizing customer success as a critical driver of Honeycomb’s short, medium, and long term growth. </li><li>A builder mindset, recognizing that while we are no longer a “scrappy startup”, Honeycomb is still developing systems, process, and tools to support our commercial efforts. </li><li>Comfort with data as a decision making tool and reporting back to the business on performance, trends, insights. </li><li>Ability to prioritize your personal efforts and that of your teams to bring focus to the highest value activities to drive team performance.</li><li>A coaching and development mindset, having seen the power of helping individuals on your teams to grow both personally and professionally</li><li>A First Team mindset, looking at your cross functional teams as a key group you are committed to help make successful.</li></ul><br/><h3>What you get when you join the Hive</h3><br/><ul><li>OTE of $250,000 - $330,000 (50/50 split). Comp based on level of experience. </li><li>A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program</li><li>It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience</li><li>Compensation benchmarked to San Francisco market - no matter where you live (or move)!</li><li>401k plan to help you plan for your future</li><li>A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)</li><li>100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance and 75% for dependents</li><li>Time to Recharge - In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we provide ~23 days off through out the year. This includes a company wide break at the end of the year, and we honor having at least one three day weekend a month (if there is not already a locally observed holiday that month, we add one!)</li><li>Pick Your Perk - $600 a year to spend on the perks that you care about most</li><li>Work Life Balance and Flexible Schedule options</li><li>The tech you need AND a $500 Home Setup Stipend</li><li>$200 Reimbursement for Cell/Wifi/CoWorking</li><li>$1500+ Annual Professional Development Allowance</li><li>Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood</li><li>Maven Inclusive Family-Building benefit including unlimited virtual appointments, coaches &amp; counselors, and $10K ‘wallet’ to support adoption, surrogacy, IVF, and egg/sperm freezing</li><li>Modern Health well-being benefit including self guided resources and access to 12 mental health and 8 coaching sessions - at no additional cost to you.</li><li>Semi-annual performance conversations (we call them Review &amp; Rewards conversations) - so you know where you stand, and how you’ll be rewarded for your impact</li><li>Annual compensation review, benchmarking to industry and inflation changes</li></ul><br/><div><b>Please note we cannot currently sponsor or do visa transfers at this time.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Diversity &amp; Accommodations:</b></div><div>We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. You don't need to be a millennial to join us, all gens are welcome! Further, we (of course) follow federal and state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email <a href="http://talent@honeycomb.io/" class="postings-link">Talent@honeycomb.io</a>to discuss accessible formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is <a href="https://honeycomb.io/blog/2018/01/observations-on-the-enterprise-of-hiring/" class="postings-link">designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work</a>; if we can do better - we want to know!&nbsp;</div>

Location: United States

  

Employment Type: Full-time

  

Team: Sales

  

 **What We’re Building**

Honeycomb defined the concept of observability and is raising expectations of
what our developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like
HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of
industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D
funding, scaled past the 150-person mark, and were named to [Forbes’ America’s
Best Startups of 2022](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/honeycomb%2Eio_its-not-
often-that-we-like-to-toot-our-own-
activity-6907007050136600576-WG1z?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web)!

  

Honeycomb is built to help engineering teams deeply explore and understand
their own production systems — in real time. It's a service for the near
future and present, where distributed systems are the new default, every
service is a platform, and empowered generalist software engineers are the new
ops. We are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to
build a product that raises our industry's expectations of what tools can do
for technical teams.

  

As the Sales Manager, you will be our leader in the market and help build and
lead a dynamic sales team and help Honeycomb surpass our growth goals and
realize our potential. The right candidate is responsible for building and
leading a world class regional sales team, executing our growth plans for your
territory, executing sales methodology and processes with your team, and
partnering with the customer success, marketing, product, engineering and
operations teams to deliver the best possible customer
[experience.](http://experience.the/)

  

 ***Please note we are hiring this role for the east coast and the candidate
must reside there.***

  

 **Who We Are**

We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented,
opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We
have conviction and we strive to live [_our
values_](https://www.honeycomb.io/about/#OurValues) every day. We want our
people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but
humble) peers.

  

**How We Work**

We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit,
but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about
how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot
of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. _#LI-Remote_

### What You'll Do in the Role:

  

  * Build and manage a team of Account Executives focused on driving Honeycomb ARR
  * Achieve growth and sales targets through successful management of the sales team
  * Design and implement a strategic sales plan for your focus region that enables honeycomb to land new customers and expand our ARR with existing customer relationships
  * Forecast your business to provide accurate data to leadership on how each individual on the team and the team overall will perform this quarter and this year.
  * Build pipeline to achieve future sales targets, both through partnership with marketing to support inbound opportunity conversion and through the team’s outbound efforts to identify new opportunities
  * Manage recruiting, objectives setting, coaching and performance monitoring of account executives on your team.
  * Provide coaching and development to your team as you work to improve their skills, behaviors, and performance
  * Develop strong cross functional relationships to support Honeycomb growth and ensure market feedback makes it way back to the organization. 
  * Drive accountability for our sales methodologies, systems, processes, and data.
  * Proactively identify process/technology gaps we have as a GTM team and partner with the appropriate teams to develop a data backed hypothesis to solve
  * Develop a culture that enables the AEs to learn and grow in each deal, while you collaborate with them on deal support
  * Accountable to our culture of diversity, development, and the personal/professional growth of our sales teams. 

  

### What You'll Bring to the Role:

  

  * Experience managing & leading a regional sales team of enterprise individual contributors in a SaaS organization, preferably with experience in the IT applications or observability space.
  * Experience selling and managing teams which sell to the core personas in Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Observability, etc. 
  * A “customer first” mindset, prioritizing customer success as a critical driver of Honeycomb’s short, medium, and long term growth. 
  * A builder mindset, recognizing that while we are no longer a “scrappy startup”, Honeycomb is still developing systems, process, and tools to support our commercial efforts. 
  * Comfort with data as a decision making tool and reporting back to the business on performance, trends, insights. 
  * Ability to prioritize your personal efforts and that of your teams to bring focus to the highest value activities to drive team performance.
  * A coaching and development mindset, having seen the power of helping individuals on your teams to grow both personally and professionally
  * A First Team mindset, looking at your cross functional teams as a key group you are committed to help make successful.

  

### What you get when you join the Hive

  

  * OTE of $250,000 - $330,000 (50/50 split). Comp based on level of experience. 
  * A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
  * It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
  * Compensation benchmarked to San Francisco market - no matter where you live (or move)!
  * 401k plan to help you plan for your future
  * A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
  * 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance and 75% for dependents
  * Time to Recharge - In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we provide ~23 days off through out the year. This includes a company wide break at the end of the year, and we honor having at least one three day weekend a month (if there is not already a locally observed holiday that month, we add one!)
  * Pick Your Perk - $600 a year to spend on the perks that you care about most
  * Work Life Balance and Flexible Schedule options
  * The tech you need AND a $500 Home Setup Stipend
  * $200 Reimbursement for Cell/Wifi/CoWorking
  * $1500+ Annual Professional Development Allowance
  * Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
  * Maven Inclusive Family-Building benefit including unlimited virtual appointments, coaches & counselors, and $10K ‘wallet’ to support adoption, surrogacy, IVF, and egg/sperm freezing
  * Modern Health well-being benefit including self guided resources and access to 12 mental health and 8 coaching sessions - at no additional cost to you.
  * Semi-annual performance conversations (we call them Review & Rewards conversations) - so you know where you stand, and how you’ll be rewarded for your impact
  * Annual compensation review, benchmarking to industry and inflation changes

  

 **Please note we cannot currently sponsor or do visa transfers at this
time.**

  

 **Diversity & Accommodations:**

We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each
other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds,
experiences, abilities and perspectives. You don't need to be a millennial to
join us, all gens are welcome! Further, we (of course) follow federal and
state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations
during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email
[Talent@honeycomb.io](http://talent@honeycomb.io/)to discuss accessible
formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process
is [designed to put you at ease and help you show your best
work](https://honeycomb.io/blog/2018/01/observations-on-the-enterprise-of-
hiring/); if we can do better - we want to know!

