Sales Director Uk

*Sales Director UK

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Our Vision
To be the central nervous system of the global economy
Our Mission
Become the universal key that enables the true potential of Open Finance
- ️ Why We Exist
To enable fairer & better financial services for everyone
**What we are looking for**:
As UK Sales Director, you will be instrumental in fuelling Yapily's ambitious growth. The UK is at the global forefront of open banking, and success in this market is crucial to Yapily’s overall success.
**Who are Yapily**
We’re a young company and we’re growing fast. We have offices in London, Vilnius, and we have over 165 talented individuals joining us from their homes and coworking spaces from around the world. We’re wonderfully diverse, with 27 nationalities - and counting We continue to expand our global reach as we build the best infrastructure for our customers.
We attract people who are excited to work in a nascent and disruptive industry that will change the way we interact with financial services, forever. We’re building the infrastructure to power the global economy.
We are looking for people who don’t always know the answers but can use their skill and judgement to work beautifully within the team to create better solutions for our customers. So whichever discipline you choose, whether that’s Engineering, Product, Commercial or Operations, we hire people who want to make a difference and can roll up their sleeves to get the job done from many different backgrounds.
**The role**:
Reporting to the VP Sales, you will play a key leadership role in building and leading the UK Sales team to capitalise on the immense market opportunity we have before us. You will lead by example, attract great talent, help the team to develop their skills, deliver on ambitious targets, and roll up your sleeves as needed to work directly with customers.
- Recruit, develop and lead a team of sales professionals, with a particular focus on new customer acquisition.
- Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the team and manage day-to-day operations, with a strong focus on performance against key sales metrics.
- Play a direct role in building and maintaining enduring executive customer relationships, up to C-level.
- Coach and guide the team in developing consultative and solution-based sales skills through all facets of the sales cycle.
- Inspire, motivate and enable personal and career development of team members, both to promote career growth and to increase impact for Yapily.
- Work collaboratively and cross-functionally across the organisation to help shape Yapily’s products and solutions to meet market needs.
- Participate in industry events to help thought leadership and drive positive market awareness.
**Requirements**:
**We are ideally looking for someone with**:

- Considerable sales leadership experience in a high-growth technology environment, coupled with proven people management skills.
- Ability to hire, train and coach a high-performing sales team.
- Ability to think critically and strategically and define go-to-market strategy.
- Ability to build strategic executive relationships with customers and industry thought leaders.
- Demonstrated passion for helping to scale new technology businesses.
- Ability to understand and articulate technical concepts, and translate them into industry
- or business-relevant terms.
- Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally, including with marketing, product and engineering teams.
**We would love you to have**:

- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/software company.
- Prior experience with API-centric businesses and recurring revenue-based business models
- Prior experience in the financial services and/or open banking industry.
**Interview Process**
We continue to work in a hybrid approach with a mix of working from home and the office.
**About Yapily**
Yapily is here to power a new era of financial services so that everyone can receive faster, affordable and personalised financial products.
We connect to thousands of banks using a secure open API enabling innovative companies to embed the power of open banking into their products. We provide infrastructure for industry leaders including American Express, Intuit Quickbooks, Vivid, Moneyfarm and BUX. Yapily has raised more than $69m funding and this is an incredibly exciting time to join the business as our international presence continues to scale rapidly.
**Benefits**
**Rewards at Yapily**
- Competitive salary in a rapidly growing scale up
- 25 days holiday (UK)
- Generous level of stock options
- Private healthcare
- Pension with employer contribution
- Flexible working options (open to discussions on work location, flexible and part time hours)
- Contribution to remote desk setup
- Diverse high performing team environment
Read more about working for us here