Roger Benson Email & Phone Number

United States

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

The Customer Communications CloudIntegrate messaging, voice, or email capabilities into your tech stack and maximize opportunities across the customer journey — with unmatched scalability, deliverability, and cost-effectiveness.I run sales for the Sinch Email suite of products - a $150m ARR business unit growing consistently y/y with profitable margins.

New York, Ny, Us

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Berkeley, California, Us

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San Francisco, California, Us

The Apple Device Management and Security Platform-Responsible for all North American Enterprise and Commercial Sales teams--Headcount: 3 Directors, 9 Managers, 6 Enterprise AEs, 50 Commercial AEs, 20 SDRs--ACV: $15,000, Largest Deal: Alliant $160,000 ARR, $320,000 TCV--Monthly ARR Impact: +$2m-Partnered with executive team to refine GTM strategy and optimize team personnel, business systems and processes in order to scale the business to $100m+-Hired, trained and developed a team of Front and Second-line Sales Leaders, AEs and BDRs-Worked cross-functionally with Heads of Partnerships, Customer Success and Revenue Operations to develop, implement and ensure adoption of GTM systems including accurate reporting, forecasting, territory creation and lead assignments --Metrics Impacted: outbound activity, pipeline creation, time to close, average deal size, annual recurring revenue--Kandji enacted a mandatory "return to office" in January '23 that effectively eliminated all remote workers who were unwilling or unable to relocate to San Diego, CA

San Francisco, California, Us

1-click checkout without passwords - anywhere. -Tasked with moving an existing team upmarket through strategic hiring and intensive sales development in order to target mid-cap and lower-enterprise accounts <$100m-Worked cross-functionally with sales ops and strategy teams to develop ideal customer profiles and deploy regional territories to maximize coverage-Increased average size of merchants closed won from <$100k annual online GMV to more than $25m-Consistently executed new business on a monthly basis providing ground cover while our upper-enterprise and strategic sales cycles progressed-Successfully onboarded more than 200 net new Growth-sized merchants adding more than $500m in committed GMV to Fast-Singularly recognized amongst my peers with an “above and beyond” award for performance beyond the scope of my assigned role and responsibilities

San Francisco, California, Us

-Hired to build and scale a high-velocity outbound sales team to target small and medium sized business operating at <$1m annual online GMV-Aggressively expanded headcount from 4 to 16 AEs while accelerating per rep productivity and overall team output-Successfully onboarded and activated more than 1000 new SME merchants with Fast Checkout in just 4 months

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Yelp connects people with great local businesses.-Responsible for leading Mid-Market & Emerging Enterprise Sales @ Yelp: serving primarily regional and small national businesses across multiple verticals - a highly performant team including an RVP, 3 RDs, 12 Managers and 150+ ICs in sales and account management across the country-Successfully accelerated growth on historically slow-moving revenue line – scaled aggressively to $79m ARR-Delivered consistent growth Q/Q every quarter for more than 2 years-More than doubled AOV from $24k to $50k by redesigning account assignment/distribution strategies using a combination of 3rd party data and internal AI/ML models to identify top opportunities-Improved retention, reduced setup errors, and increased budget fulfillment by co-authoring an aligned sales/customer success framework to streamline the customer journey and highlighting opportunities for campaign optimization-Deployed a functioning demand-gen engine in partnership with marketing projected to account for 20% of total MM revenue in its first year of operation-Worked closely with internal, cross-functional leadership at all levels including engineering, product, operations, as well as learning and development

San Francisco, Ca, Us

-Responsible for Enterprise & Mid-Market sales in the Eastern US region-Oversaw all acquisition sales and account expansion with a dotted line to regional customer success and revenue operations-Owned a direct reporting relationship with the senior-most AEs in the region including the top earning sales rep in the company ($1m+ gross commissions in FY'17 -- notable clients include Staples, Subway and Target)-Drove consistent growth in-region including consecutive quarters as the top-performing region in the org (1Q18->2Q18)

San Francisco, Ca, Us

-Responsible for an organization of 12 local sales teams with a headcount of 140+-Developed a daily repeatable management playbook deployed org-wide-Goaled at $30m+ in annual booked revenue-FY2016: achieved 127% of assigned quota-FY2015: achieved 105% of assigned quota -FY2014: achieved 107% of assigned quota-Presidents Club Attendee 2015, 2016, 2017-Highly sought after for mentoring and career development coaching

San Francisco, Ca, Us

-Responsible for leading a team of 12 local AEs carrying a monthly quota of ~$300k in booked revenue-Closely managed sales activities to acquire new accounts and exceed targets-Barged 4+ hours of sales calls daily to assist in capturing revenue opportunities-Charged with recruiting, hiring and training all acquisition sellers in NY-FY2013: achieved 117% of assigned quota-FY2012: achieved 116% of assigned quota -Presidents Club Qualifier 2012, 2013

San Francisco, Ca, Us

-An entry-level, high-output, cold call sales job focused on hyper-local SMB-Tasked to aggressively grow customer base and increase penetration into high-value market segments by exceeding monthly $20k quota targets-Worked across all verticals and in several key local regions (East Harlem, Williamsburg and Jersey City)-Presidents Club Qualifier 2011

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