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Commercial Sales Manager, West

San Francisco, CAHybridFull TimeManager / Head$300,000–$370,000 /yrPosted 1 day agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Sales targets
  • Revenue growth
  • Sales strategy
  • Sales process
  • Prospecting
  • Closing deals
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Performance reviews
  • Sales data analysis
  • Market trends

Nice to have

  • Product knowledge
  • AI fluency
  • AI-focused exercise

Role summary

Glean is seeking a Commercial Sales Manager for its West region, based in San Francisco. This hybrid role involves leading and coaching a team of sales representatives to achieve sales targets, driving sales strategy, and managing the sales process. The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of sales experience, including proven success in sales management within a fast-paced startup environment. Key responsibilities include developing sales strategies, conducting performance reviews, analyzing sales data, and collaborating with internal teams. A strong understanding of Glean's Work AI platform and its value proposition is essential. The role emphasizes leadership, coaching, analytical skills, and a growth mindset.

About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more. You'll be deeply embedded where people get things done. You'll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About the Role:

As a Sales Manager at Glean, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of sales representatives to achieve and exceed sales targets. You will play a critical role in driving the sales strategy, managing the sales process, and ensuring the success of your team.

You will:

  • Lead, coach, and mentor a team of sales representatives to achieve individual and team sales goals.
  • Develop and implement effective sales strategies to drive revenue growth.
  • Manage the sales process from prospecting to closing deals, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews and provide ongoing feedback and development opportunities for team members.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and customer success, to ensure alignment and support for sales initiatives.
  • Analyze sales data and market trends to identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
  • Maintain a strong understanding of Glean’s products and services, and effectively communicate their value to potential customers.
  • About you:

  • 5-10 years of sales experience, with a proven track record of success in a sales management role.
  • Experience selling at a startup or a similar fast-paced environment.
  • Strong leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to motivate and develop a high-performing sales team.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
  • A growth mindset and a passion for continuous improvement and learning.
  • Location:

  • This role is hybrid in San Francisco, CA
  • Compensation & Benefits:

    The OTE range for this role is: $300,000.00 - $370,000.00 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

    We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

    We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.#LI-HYBRID

    AI-First Mindset at Glean: At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required. Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants: Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or other privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available in our Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. US applicants and their applications are subject to arbitration of disputes as outlined in our Applicant Arbitration Agreement. By clicking “Submit Application,” I confirm that I have read the Global Data Privacy Notice and the Applicant Arbitration Agreement, and I agree to the terms.
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