
Founding Sales Lead
Aspire Software
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • Canada
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About the role
- Own the full sales cycle: prospecting, discovery, demos, proposals, negotiation, and close.
- Build and maintain a target account strategy by segment and customer profile.
- Present and sell Carla AI to rental operators and services businesses, clearly articulating the ROI, efficiency gains, and revenue impact of AI powered call handling and booking automation.
- Seamlessly transition new customers to onboarding and Customer Success for activation and first value realization.
- Lead outbound strategy and execution across calls, email, LinkedIn, and industry events.
- Develop and iterate on talk tracks, competitive positioning, objection handling, and demo structure.
- Establish pipeline creation targets and inspection routines that translate activity into predictable results.
- Create repeatable playbooks covering segments, sequences, cadences, and qualification criteria.
- Share structured customer insights and market feedback with Product and leadership to inform roadmap, pricing, and packaging decisions.
- Maintain accurate pipeline, activity tracking, and forecasting in CRM (HubSpot).
- Consistently meet or exceed monthly and quarterly KPIs across outreach, demos, pipeline, and revenue.
- Coordinate with Partnerships and Marketing to leverage partner channels and campaigns for pipeline generation.
Requirements
- 3 to 5+ years of proven success in B2B SaaS new business sales, with a strong track record of closing.
- Strong hunter mentality: you are comfortable with outbound prospecting and generating your own pipeline, not reliant on inbound leads.
- Experience managing a full sales cycle from first contact through contract execution.
- Confident running discovery calls and solution based sales conversations that connect product capabilities to business outcomes.
- Experience building or materially improving a sales motion: process, messaging, cadence, and forecasting.
- Strong communication, presentation, and relationship building skills.
- CRM experience (HubSpot, Salesforce, or equivalent).
- Self motivated, goal driven, and comfortable working autonomously in a fast paced, evolving environment.
- Experience selling into the rental industry (car rental, equipment rental, fleet management) or adjacent verticals such as automotive, travel tech, or mobility is a strong plus.
- Experience selling AI, automation, or voice/conversational technology products.
- Experience in vertical market software or operationally complex environments where the buyer is an operator, not a tech team.
- Startup or early stage SaaS experience where you had to build the motion, not just run it.
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Hard Skills & Tools
B2B SaaS salesfull sales cycle managementoutbound prospectingsolution-based salessales process improvementpipeline creationKPI trackingCRM managementAI salesautomation technology
Soft Skills
strong communication skillspresentation skillsrelationship buildingself-motivatedgoal drivenautonomous workfast-paced adaptabilitynegotiation skillsobjection handlingcustomer insights sharing