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You lead and inspire a high-performing sales team, instilling operational rigor while navigating complex enterprise deals and executive relationships. You act as the bridge between field sales execution, executive leadership, and cross-functional partners in Product, Marketing, and Customer Success ensuring our go-to-market strategy aligns with customer needs to scale predictable revenue.\nWe are looking for a proven enterprise sales leader with a track record of driving complex sales cycles, multi-threading across executive buyers, and instilling operational rigor through MEDDPICC and Command of the Message. 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