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Joel Pearson

Joel Pearson

Austin,TX

Summary

Strategic sales leader with a proven history of delivering disproportionate revenue growth to early/mid-stage companies and building successful teams.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

SVP/GM Sales, Americas

Blommer Chocolate
Mountain View, CA
11.2023 - Current

Direct leadership of all revenue targets for the Americas region. Direct report to the CEO and CCO.

  • Restructured all of the GTM functions from lead generation to our sales structure and approach
  • Grew new business by 78% in the first year
  • Increased ARR performance from our Mid-Market team by 167%
  • Improved Cross-sell motion by over 270% in my first year

SVP of Sales, Americas

BigComerce
Austin, Texas
07.2019 - 11.2023

Direct leadership of enterprise sales that led to a promotion with oversight of all revenue for the Americas. Direct report to the CRO.

  • Led an organization of roughly 80 ICs and frontline leaders that produced over 35% YoY growth during that 2 year period.
  • Refined GTM motions that increased win rates from mid-teens to an average of 27% across the various sales teams.
  • Developed and led the shift of the business to Enterprise with an annual growth rate north of 50% on an eight-figure business segment
  • Developed and implemented our lead generation strategies that resulted in 78% YoY pipeline growth

Regional VP of Sales

Accruent
Austin, Texas
07.2018 - 07.2019

Direct leadership of enterprise sales efforts for the healthcare vertical. Direct report to SVP and CRO.

  • Led team that resulted in 4 of the 6 team members attaining Club status (0 attained Club in 2017 and all those that qualified in 2018 were behind pace during 1st half of the year)
  • Refined sales process and deal analysis protocols that increased Closed Won percentages from 26% to 34%
  • Helped implement pipeline development strategies that led to $2.2M in new pipeline generation in Q1
  • Generated go to market strategies, for our primary SaaS product, that increased the associated revenue by 205% in just 9 months.

Director of Sales

CareerPlug
Austin, Texas
07.2015 - 06.2018

Direct leadership of sales and market development. Direct report to the founding CEO.

  • Drove 200% growth in company revenue in less than 3 years.
  • Built and developed a sales and market development team, including all training, market specialization, territory assignment and quotas.
  • Delivered revenue diversification by reducing dependence on our our flagship client from 75% to less than 40%.
  • Instituted specific sales process enhancements that lifted lead conversion by 25% and sales conversion by more than 30%.
  • Led the development of a new strategic revenue channel that increased 5x in 24 months.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA
12-1995

Skills

  • New Business Development
  • Process Origination and Implementation
  • Revenue Channel Management
  • Team Training and Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Salesforce Administration
  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Contract & Term Negotiation

Timeline

SVP/GM Sales, Americas

Blommer Chocolate
11.2023 - Current

SVP of Sales, Americas

BigComerce
07.2019 - 11.2023

Regional VP of Sales

Accruent
07.2018 - 07.2019

Director of Sales

CareerPlug
07.2015 - 06.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

Pacific Lutheran University
Joel Pearson
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