Go-To-Market Lead
Full Time $250,000 - $300,000 / yearJob Overview
We’re hiring a founding GTM Lead to build and scale the commercial engine for a new productized test automation service. The technology and delivery team are in place. What’s missing is a single owner to find the customers, prove the motion, and turn a launched capability into a repeatable revenue engine.
This is a senior individual contributor role with significant autonomy and ownership, designed for an entrepreneurial operator who wants to build a business within a business. You will own this service line the way a founder owns a startup: setting strategy, shaping positioning, leading sales conversations directly, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver results. You’ll have the support of marketing, sales, engineering, and partner/channel resources, but you set the direction.
There is a lot to figure out: ICP, messaging, packaging, pricing, and sales motion are all open questions waiting for the right person to answer them. If that sounds like a problem, this isn’t the role. If it sounds like an opportunity, keep reading.
The upside: Commission is tied to building this service to $1.5M ARR. For top performers, there is a clear path to expanded scope and leadership as the business grows.
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Type: Full-time
Industry: B2B IT Services, Test Automation Services, Software Quality Assurance
Reports To: Vice President, Growth
Compensation: $250k-$300k OTE (50/50 base and variable)
Responsibilities
What You’ll Own
You are accountable for turning a launched capability into a growing, repeatable revenue engine. That means:
- Direct selling and revenue. Lead consultative sales conversations directly: discovery, solution framing, value/ROI storytelling, objection handling, negotiation, and closing or co-closing. You are the credible voice in the room, not a support player.
- ICP and repeatable motion. Define, validate, and refine the ideal customer profile and buying triggers. Turn learning into a scalable, documented GTM playbook.
- Pipeline quality and velocity. Improve conversion rates and sales-cycle efficiency through better messaging, enablement, and qualification.
- Qualification discipline. Build and enforce a qualification process that prevents downstream delivery surprises: technical barriers, scope mismatches, and unrealistic timelines.
- Sales and partner enablement. Equip sales and partner teams with assets, training, and an operating rhythm to drive results.
- Market narrative. Ensure brand, website, and content reflect real customer needs and land with the market.
What You’ll Do
Market and Customer Learning
- Run continuous customer discovery: win/loss analysis, interviews, and deal-cycle feedback loops.
- Translate customer insights into clear positioning, messaging, and objection handling.
- Map the end-to-end buyer journey and identify friction points.
GTM Strategy and Execution
- Build the GTM plan: ICP, segments, channels, offers, pipeline targets, and quarterly priorities.
- Partner with marketing to create content that converts—webpages, one-pagers, email sequences, lead magnets, webinars, and case studies.
- Create and maintain competitive intelligence: battlecards, differentiation, and “why us / why now” narratives.
- Coordinate partner/channel assets and enablement materials; keep partner initiatives prioritized and accountable.
- Be a visible face of the offering: present in key customer conversations, partner meetings, webinars, and market-facing moments.
Sales and Deal Support
- Lead consultative sales directly with prospects and customers, including discovery calls, solution framing, presentations/demos, proposal shaping, objection handling, negotiation, and closing/co-closing.
- Create talk tracks, discovery questions, qualification checklists, proposal frameworks, and objection responses.
- Standardize what “good opportunities” look like and help eliminate low-fit pipeline.
Cross-Functional Orchestration
- Establish a weekly operating cadence across marketing, sales, partner/channel, and engineering.
- Turn friction points into action plans: define changes, assign owners, track follow-through.
- Work with engineering to surface recurring delivery blockers and feed them into backlog prioritization.
What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months)
- ICP clarity: A well-defined ICP with validated segments, triggers, disqualifiers, and a clear “why now.”
- Repeatable motion: Documented sales/GTM playbook with stages, exit criteria, and assets per stage.
- Higher quality pipeline: Measurable improvements in lead quality and stage conversion.
- Fewer delivery surprises: Qualification process adopted and materially reducing technical barrier surprises.
- Working growth engine: At least 1–2 dependable lead sources producing qualified opportunities consistently.
- Direct revenue impact: You are personally influencing and closing/co-closing business, demonstrating consultative selling that converts qualified opportunities into revenue.
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
Required
- 5+ years in B2B go-to-market roles that blend strategy and hands-on execution (GTM, growth, market development, product marketing, or program leadership) including direct, customer-facing selling responsibilities.
- Proven experience building a repeatable B2B go-to-market motion from early stage, not just running campaigns or optimizing an existing engine.
- Strong customer instincts: can run discovery, synthesize findings, and turn insights into action.
- Proven consultative B2B sales capability: can lead discovery, build trust quickly, handle objections, and close or co-close deals with annual contract values in the $100K-$200K+ range.
- Comfort operating cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and engineering, and driving outcomes without direct authority.
- Ability to create crisp GTM artifacts: positioning documents, battlecards, enablement materials, talk tracks, qualification checklists, and playbooks.
- Analytical mindset: uses funnel metrics and data to prioritize and measure impact.
- Strong executive presence and persuasive communication: comfortable presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
Preferred
- Experience with productized services, tech-enabled services, or hybrid product/service offerings.
- Partner/channel GTM experience: co-sell, enablement, pipeline creation.
- Experience navigating “in-between” pricing and motion challenges: not product-led growth, not heavy enterprise.
- Background spanning both larger organizations and early-stage or high-growth companies.
- Experience selling less brand-driven or highly technical enterprise products where education is part of the sale.
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