
VP of Sales – Americas
Kevel
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own and deliver U.S. and Canada revenue targets, driving net-new enterprise customer acquisition and strategic account expansion.
- Expand Kevel’s presence across retailers, marketplaces, and commerce partners building retail media networks.
- Develop and execute a focused go-to-market strategy aligned to target segments, ICPs, and strategic verticals.
- Act as executive sponsor on key accounts, strengthening long-term strategic partnerships.
- Serve as a player-coach, personally leading and closing high-value, complex deals while building a scalable sales motion.
- Lead the full enterprise sales lifecycle — from executive-level prospecting through deal structuring, negotiation, and close.
- Navigate multi-threaded sales cycles involving C-level stakeholders, product teams, procurement, legal, and technical buyers.
- Provide accurate forecasting and pipeline visibility, establishing operational rigor and revenue predictability.
- Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Account Executives and Strategic Account Managers.
- Establish clear KPIs, accountability structures, and coaching frameworks that elevate performance.
- Build scalable processes across prospecting, qualification, deal strategy, pricing, and expansion.
- Foster a high-performing, inclusive, and equitable culture aligned with Kevel’s values.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Product, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Success to refine positioning, pricing, and packaging.
- Translate market and customer insights into actionable feedback for product and executive leadership.
- Monitor competitive dynamics and retail media trends to inform positioning and differentiation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive enterprise sales experience, including senior sales leadership in high-growth SaaS or infrastructure businesses.
- Deep expertise in retail media, digital advertising technology, commerce enablement, or API-driven platforms.
- Proven success selling complex, technical solutions (e.g., APIs, ad serving platforms, monetization infrastructure) to enterprise retailers, marketplaces, or commerce organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale enterprise sales teams, establish forecasting rigor, and consistently exceed revenue targets.
- Strong understanding of enterprise procurement, contract negotiations, MSAs, and strategic commercial agreements.
- Track record of leading multi-million-dollar, multi-stakeholder sales cycles with executive buyers.
- Operational fluency in CRM systems, pipeline management, sales enablement tools, and data-driven forecasting.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to operate at both executive and tactical levels.
- Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence C-level stakeholders and build long-term strategic partnerships.
- A customer-centric, high-integrity leadership style that builds trust, accountability, and sustained growth.
Benefits
- Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world.
- Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences.
- Comprehensive Health Benefits - Kevel provides 100% employer paid medical benefits for our employees and their children, plus comprehensive, affordable coverage for all other dependents.
- Savings opportunity for the Future: Kevel offers retirement savings plans with employer contributions so employees can save toward future financial objectives.
- Rest and Relaxation: Unlimited personal time off - and we mean it!
- Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!)
- Kevelfest: Our annual corporate retreat! The entire Kevel team gets together once a year for a four - day in - person event filled with collaboration, team building, celebration and fun!
- Home Office Stipend: You’ll receive a new windows or mac machine (your choice) + a $500 home office allowance to purchase what you need to set up your work space properly!
- Parental Leave Support: We support all parents with salary continuation and benefits when our employees are growing their families.
- Free press benefits : Kevel believes all employees should have access to legitimate news sources. You’ll receive a $300 annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.
- Full transparency.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise salessales lifecycledeal structuringnegotiationforecastingpipeline managementsales enablementdigital advertising technologyAPI-driven platformscontract negotiations
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstrategic mindsetcustomer-centricinfluencetrust buildingaccountabilitycoachingteam developmentoperational rigor