Sales Manager

Persevio

Persevio is an AI-powered recruitment agency and recruitment platform. We combine a success-based recruitment model with AI-driven workflows to help companies hire high-quality talent faster and more affordably.
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Singapore, we are an early-stage, fast-growing team building towards a long-term vision: making expert-level recruiting scalable through AI—while keeping humans in the loop for judgment, relationships, and critical decisions.

Job Description

# Sales Manager

## About the company

Persevio is an AI-powered recruitment agency and recruitment platform. We combine a success-based recruitment model with AI-driven workflows to help companies hire high-quality talent faster and more affordably.
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Singapore, we are an early-stage, fast-growing team building towards a long-term vision: making expert-level recruiting scalable through AI—while keeping humans in the loop for judgment, relationships, and critical decisions.

## What you'll do

- **Location:** Singapore (Hybrid: 3 days in office, 2 days remote)

- **Role Overview:**
- We are looking for a hands-on Sales Manager to lead and develop a small team of SDRs and AEs in Singapore. This is a coaching-first leadership role where success is measured by **team quota attainment (no personal quota)**.
- You will set a strong operating cadence, drive outbound discipline, and step into complex, long-cycle deals to help the team progress and close—working closely with senior leadership in a high-autonomy environment.

- **Key Responsibilities:**
- **Lead and coach a mixed SDR + AE team:** Provide day-to-day coaching that improves rep execution, pipeline quality, and conversion—using call reviews, deal reviews, and clear feedback that reps can apply immediately.
- **Drive team quota attainment:** Own forecasting discipline, deal inspection, prioritisation, and weekly execution rhythm to keep the team aligned to the number.
- **Support complex, high-value deals end-to-end:** Join critical customer conversations when deals get stuck; help shape deal strategy, stakeholder alignment, and next steps through to close.
- **Build outbound excellence across the team:** Strengthen cold calling, messaging, and scripting; ensure both SDR-led outbound and AE self-sourcing are executed consistently and effectively.
- **Evolve the sales process into a repeatable playbook:** Over time, refine the existing sales motion into clearer stages, exit criteria, and practical “how we sell here” guidance that the team will adopt.
- **Scale the team over time:** Participate in hiring, onboarding, and ramping additional reps as the team grows.

- **Why you should be interested:**
- **Coaching-first leadership impact:** Make a direct, visible difference by elevating rep performance and building a high-discipline sales culture.
- **High ownership, real autonomy:** Operate close to senior leadership with the ability to shape cadence, standards, and how the team sells.
- **Build in a fast-growing AI company:** Join an early-stage team at the intersection of AI and recruitment, with meaningful opportunities to grow as the business scales.
- If you enjoy leading from the front—coaching daily, tightening execution, and helping teams win complex deals—we’d love to hear from you.

### Role success outcomes

- Manage a sales team and coach the sales reps\.
- Manage long sales cycles and high\-ticket sales items\.
- Be responsible for team quota attainment\.
- Drive outbound via both SDR\-led and self\-sourced efforts\.

### Employment terms

- Role: Sales Manager \(1 headcount\), based in Singapore, with a hybrid arrangement\.
- Work arrangement: hybrid, with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote\.
- Employment type: permanent, full\-time\.
- Work authorization required: Singapore citizen or permanent resident\.
- Languages: English \(Level 5\) and Mandarin Chinese \(Level 5\)\.
- Reports to: Founder\.
- Preferred start timing: within 4 weeks \(only within a month\)\.
- Must have hands\-on \("ground"\) sales experience as well as experience leading a team\.
- Experience in cold calling and scripting, with a history of end\-to\-end sales\.
- Proven track record of achieving quota\.
- Experience in the SaaS industry\.
- Coaching skills / strong coaching capability\.

## What we're looking for

- **Minimum/Core Requirements:**
- Demonstrated experience **leading and formally developing sales reps** (SDRs and/or AEs), including structured ramping, ongoing coaching, and performance improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to run **long-cycle, high-value B2B deals** end-to-end, including multi-stakeholder discovery, consensus building, and closing strategy.
- Strong command of **forecasting, deal inspection, and operating cadence**, with the ability to improve accuracy and execution through disciplined weekly rhythms.
- Hands-on outbound capability and coaching experience across **cold calling, messaging, and scripting**, with a track record of lifting team prospecting outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively in a lean, fast-moving environment with high ownership and limited operational support.
- Proficiency in English to collaborate with internal stakeholders and communicate clearly with customers and partners.
- Able to work in Singapore and commit to a hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote) and start within approximately 4 weeks.

- **Preferred/Bonus Requirements:**
- Experience selling B2B SaaS or working in a product-led / tech-enabled sales environment.
- Experience building or refining sales playbooks and processes in a scaling team (without relying heavily on dedicated Sales Ops/RevOps resources).
- Experience hiring and ramping SDRs/AEs in a growing team.

## Pay

OTE: SGD 200,000-250,000 per year.