About the Role
Act as the primary point of contact for Cars Commerce customers, focusing on ongoing customer success, retention, and growth. Sell products and services to existing customers. Maintain relationships through regular in-person visits within an assigned geographic territory. Respond to client inquiries and recommend appropriate products and services. Execute sales strategy, identify and close upsell opportunities. Prepare reports and deliver insights that communicate measurable value to customers. Demonstrate expertise in Cars Commerce products, services, and the digital automotive marketplace. Manage pipeline with discipline — maintain daily Salesforce hygiene, track pipeline coverage ratios, forecast accurately, and apply a structured sales methodology at every stage. Travel (primarily driving but occasional flights) at least 75% of the time within the assigned territory for face-to-face customer engagement. Partner across selling and servicing roles at Cars Commerce to ensure customers receive maximum value from the Cars Commerce Platform.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary point of contact for Cars Commerce customers, focusing on ongoing customer success, retention, and growth.
- Sell products and services to existing customers.
- Maintain relationships through regular in-person visits within an assigned geographic territory.
- Respond to client inquiries and recommend appropriate products and services.
- Execute sales strategy, identify and close upsell opportunities.
- Prepare reports and deliver insights that communicate measurable value to customers.
- Demonstrate expertise in Cars Commerce products, services, and the digital automotive marketplace.
- Manage pipeline with discipline — maintain daily Salesforce hygiene, track pipeline coverage ratios, forecast accurately, and apply a structured sales methodology at every stage.
- Travel (primarily driving but occasional flights) at least 75% of the time within the assigned territory for face-to-face customer engagement.
- Partner across selling and servicing roles at Cars Commerce to ensure customers receive maximum value from the Cars Commerce Platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive B2B sales experience with a media, digital advertising, marketing SaaS, or automotive solutions background.
- Proven, multi-year quota attainment record — candidates must be prepared to share specific quota figures, attainment percentages, and team/regional rankings.
- Demonstrated Salesforce proficiency with strong CRM hygiene habits; daily updates and pipeline reviews are the norm, not the exception.
- Demonstrated track record of consistent quota attainment and a continuous, competitive drive to win.
- Experience selling advertising or complex SaaS/software solutions to business leaders in SMB or mid-market segments.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Financially motivated with a preference for uncapped, accelerated commission structures over high-base/low-variable plans.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
- We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.
Skills
- Solutions-selling
- Salesforce
- CRM
- Sales presentations
- Product demonstrations
- Persuasion
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Presentation
- Customer relationship-building
- Business acumen
- Pipeline management
- Forecasting
Location
- Long Island, NY
Work Type
- Field-based
- Remote-first workplace
Experience Level
- Seasoned seller
- 5+ years of progressive B2B sales experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $118,600.00-$148,250.00 Total Target Compensation Range
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
- New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
- Generous PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Floating Holiday
- Volunteer Day
- Recharge Day
About the Company
- At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling.
- We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail.
- Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.
- No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration.
- It’s built into the very fabric of our shared values.
- We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community.
- Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes.
- But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today.
- At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard.
- It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.
- We are proud to be named one of Built In's 2026 Best Places to Work in Chicago and across the U.S.
- Join a team that's driving real change in the automotive industry.
- Cars Commerce is an audience-driven technology company empowering automotive that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars.
- The Cars Commerce platform includes the flagship automotive marketplace and dealer reputation site Cars.com, innovative digital marketing technology and services from Dealer Inspire, industry-leading trade-in and appraisal technology from AccuTrade, an exclusive in-market media network, and powerful and predictive AI technologies that enable more efficient and profitable retail operations.
- Cars Commerce is the essential partner to stay one step ahead in automotive.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
