Content & Creators SMB/MM Sales Director

About Bazaarvoice At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products. The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty. Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers. Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.  It’s official: Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US , Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK!
Bazaarvoice is looking for a talented Sales Director with a passion for working with fast-growing SMB & mid-market clients to join our Content & Creators (C&C) Sales Team. As part of the C&C team, you will be responsible for cross-selling our Content Activation & Creator Solutions into an assigned territory of named SMB & mid-market accounts.

What you will be doing:

• Grow bookings in your assigned territory by selling in net new CAS opportunities, and growing rebuys.
• Build and nurture relationships at every level within SMB/MM organizations with an emphasis on brand management/marketing, e-commerce, social, and leadership.
• Strategically prospect for new opportunities across the relevant buyer personas.
• Drive conversational discovery with the customer in order to reveal pains and requirements.
• Utilize sales processes and tools to manage your book of business, prospecting targets and provide timely and accurate forecasts.
• Collaborate closely with your SaaS generalist sellers to holistically serve Bazaarvoice’s mid-market clients; driving the accounts to achieve both CAS & SaaS growth targets.
• Meet or exceed assigned pipegen & revenue quotas.
• Travel within the assigned territory for client meetings. 

Necessary Skills and Experience:

• Strong hunter who excels at researching and identifying top prospects and conducting strategic outreach.
• Collaborative seller, who can partner with a generalist sales team to amplify their efforts of driving content & creators revenue.
• Experience selling to brands, with a demonstrated track record of closing new business.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to conduct formal presentations with senior leaders & one-on-one meetings. 
• Creative thinker and problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Strong understanding of typical mid-market buying cycles and processes.
• Excellent team player. 

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Why join Bazaarvoice? Customer is keyWe see our own success through our customers’ outcomes.  We approach every situation with a customer first mindset. Transparency & Integrity Builds TrustWe believe in the power of authentic feedback because it’s in our DNA. We do the right thing when faced with hard choices. Transparency and trust accelerate our collective performance. Passionate Pursuit of PerformanceOur energy is contagious, because we hire for passion, drive & curiosity. We love what we