VP Commercial

  • Full-time

Company Description

Kata.ai is an Indonesian Conversational Artificial Intelligence company with a focus on creating technology to enhance the understanding of human conversations, improving the way humans collaborates with machines. Kata.ai’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology powers Multi-Purpose chatbots (virtual customer service / virtual friend) for major corporations in Indonesia across different kind of industries such as, Unilever (FMCG), Telkomsel (Telco), Bank BRI (Financial Services), and Alfamart (Retail).

The company’s proprietary Kata Bot Platform can be leveraged to create feature-rich chatbots on top of Kata.ai’s robust and scalable AI technology platform, ensuring company of any size can easily build their own chatbot on any messaging platform. With this platform, it is now possible for the business to focus on designing engaging interaction for their customers, while Kata.ai handles all the technology aspects of the chatbots.

Established in 2015, the company has become a trusted partner for major corporations such as Microsoft, Accenture, and Line. In 2017, the company also received Series-A funding led by Trans-Pacific Technology Fund.

Job Description

  • Take full responsibility for revenue growth, projection and the company’s sales targets to meet company objectives.

  • Responsible for developing strategic sales plans based on company goals that will promote sales growth and customer satisfaction.

  • Develop and refine scalable sales processes and procedures

  • Build an enterprise-focused go-to-market strategy and further grow our business

  • Build and manage successful sales teams (SDR, field sales, pre-sales and customer success)

  • Consultative approach, pitching solutions not products, and comfortable securing from prospective clients’ IT & marketing budgets, business goals, and various data assets

  • Develop and implement a partner/channel sales strategy

  • Take a hands-on approach to every stage of the sales cycle from prospecting to closing

  • Responsibility for key KPIs and metrics (MRR, ARPA, CAC, Churn)

  • Identify key market trends and activity that affect the direction of the organization

  • Able to customize your pitches as sales presentation decks

  • Attend industry and networking events routinely

  • Collaborates across in-house departments to ensure your clients’ ongoing and often changing needs are continuously met

  • Maintain accurate and updated CRM data via Salesforce
     

Qualifications

  • At least 10+ years as a top performer in B2B enterprise sales, pitching to AVP-level and above

  • Experience working in technology and more specifically with data analytics-focused products and teams

  • Previous experience bringing a company from USD 1M ARR to USD 5M+ ARR.

  • Track record hiring and coaching a successful sales team

  • The ability to build lasting relationships with customers and partners

  • Previous experience growing and running a high-performing SaaS or Technology sales team

  • Proven record managing both transactional and strategic sales cycles

  • Strong objection handler, with agility to think-on-feet for scenario-based solutions

  • Data-savvy and comfortable discussing technology

  • Strong prospecting, presentation, and relationship building experience.

  • Ask tough, thoughtful questions and be relentlessly competitive with a strong sense of urgency

  • Highly analytical mindset

  • Entrepreneurial mindset

  • Tough, able to handle tough clients

  • Able to understand complex product and explain it in the simplest way (out of the box thinking)

  • Posses competitive personality

  • Take No as an answer, always find a way to seal the deal

  • Intuitively spotting pain point early and suggest a solution quickly

Additional Information

We value a flexible working hour for our employee by providing a remote working program up to 2 days/week. Free lunch and health insurance also provided. The most important is we provide a learning experience in Conversational AI Industry.