Sales Director

About Willow

Willow is an award-winning WealthTech platform powering advisors’ acquisition, growth, and retention of the New Majority of investors: women, NextGen, underrepresented and LGBTQ+ groups. Through the Willow Financial Advisor Certification™ and marketing platform, advisors gain the knowledge and tools needed to better serve these modern clients, align their financial plan with their personal values, and acquire new clients. Willow’s client education and coaching platform and Willow Certified Financial Life Coach Network™ help advisors to immediately diversify their team to better represent and serve these modern clients.

Job Description

The Director of Sales will be responsible for leading and managing the sales function and driving net-new revenue by leveraging industry knowledge and contacts across the US. The ideal candidate has led sales efforts within the wealth management and wealthtech/fintech space and has a track record of consistently exceeding growth targets. Responsibilities include:

About the role

Must increase and meet aggressive revenue targets for Willow’s Financial Advisor Certification and Marketing Platform.
Continue to build the infrastructure and foundation of an award-winning platform sales function.
Develop go to market strategies for both mature and emerging customer targets.
Manage, motivate and enhance the Sales team to achieve revenue goals, holding team members to a high standard of excellence and accountability.
Responsible for the evaluation and coordination of sales and customer retention efforts/teams.
Proactively analyze and implement continuous improvements to the operational efficiency of the sales, go-to market and retention initiatives and team.
Reports to, and collaborates closely with, the CEO.

About you

Significant success driving product-led growth, ideally in financial services or wealthtech/fintech,and track record of immediately close accounts.
Must have wealthtech/fintech and wealth management expertise and existing relationships with RIAs and enterprises.
Demonstrated success in building a high-performing, diverse sales team and delivering bottom-line financial results.
Charismatic leader and excellent keynote speaker/presenter. Very strong ability to present to customers, partners, with ease at a moment’s notice and without much preparation.
High willingness to travel and work at late/long hours as needed.
Demonstrated ability to architect and lead multiple, concurrent sales channels and strategies to a combined, rapid growth outcome.
Demonstrated success in accomplishing/exceeding aggressive revenue goals and growing ARR year over year.
Being quantitative about how you run the commercial + upsell function. Relentlessly drives improvements and optimizations.
Knows how to build tight relationships with the C-suite and Executive
Management team, as well as individual advisors and team.
Creative, obsessed with metrics, hard driving/hard charger.
Aligned with and passionate about Willow’s mission.

Key Attributes

Intensely driven and goal oriented, with an internal drive towards high achievement, producing great results and achieving revenue milestones.
Solutions-focused with a huge sense of urgency: You are biased toward action, drive toward solutions first, as opposed to pointing out the problems and/or relying on others.
Strong operational rigor and effective project management skills.
Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and results.
Have an extraordinary playbook for hiring – strong ability to quickly hire and scale teams.
Very strategic and qualitative leader.
Premiere go-to-market execution.
Track record of deploying state-of-the-art processes and capabilities.
Deep business acumen.
Growth mindset: open to consider opposite points of view.
Beat & raise mentality.
Superior communication skills. Must be very social, highly extroverted, wanting to talk to everybody every day.
Gets energized being on Zooms and traveling/presenting, networking and onboarding new clients at events.
Strong analytical ability to assess complex situations and ability to deliver creative solutions. Strategic: out of the box thinking.

Additional Details:

This role is remote with the expectation of regular travel.
Compensation for this role is salary + commission + equity.

What’s next:

If you’re interested in joining the team at Willow, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you’d be right for the position. As you’ve hopefully seen already, Willow is a place that values personal wellness and diversity of life journeys. Write to us and tell us what you’re all about.

Our Promise:

At Willow, we believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Willow is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.