Top Sales Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads and develops a Solutions Consulting team supporting enterprise and mid-market SaaS sales. Builds scalable presales operating systems, including playbooks, capacity models, coverage plans, enablement, and performance reporting. Personally supports strategic deals while partnering across Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and Post-Sales. Drives executive engagement, complex solution design, deal execution, customer adoption, and improvements to win rates and time-to-value.

Own a portfolio of major technology alliances, developing joint business plans, driving field-level co-selling, generating partner-sourced pipeline and revenue, and executing joint marketing programs. Align executives, sales, marketing, product, and partnerships teams around shared goals. Initially operate as an individual contributor, then hire and lead Technology Partner Managers while establishing team structures, QBRs, planning cadences, and reporting processes.

Build and lead Apollo.io’s Data & Distribution Partnerships function from scratch. Own the data-reseller P&L, hire and manage quota-carrying AEs, develop demand generation and pricing strategies, and originate complex data, platform, marketplace, and embedded distribution partnerships. Personally structure and close bespoke commercial agreements while identifying new high-impact distribution opportunities and creating scalable partner models.

Own and expand Apollo’s partnerships with foundation model companies, agent harnesses, and AI-native platforms. Identify new integration surfaces, drive partner certification and compliance, develop monetization strategies, and coordinate multi-party partnerships. Collaborate with R&D to design and launch MCP servers, plugins, skills, and agent tools while tracking fast-changing AI ecosystem developments and shaping Apollo’s partnership strategy.

As a Senior Solutions Consultant, you will drive complex SaaS deals, collaborate across teams, lead technical discovery, and mentor peers while focusing on customer success and integration solutions.

Own outbound net-new revenue in the mid-market (250–1000 employees). Proactively prospect 600+ accounts, engage Director+ and C-level buyers, run discovery/demos/negotiations, and close full-cycle deals with a data-driven, multi-threaded approach to meet quota and maintain accurate pipeline and forecasts.

Drive growth by acquiring new enterprise accounts and managing renewals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to sales strategies in a high-ownership environment.