About the Role
This role is a leadership position focused on structure, performance management, and continuous organizational development within a high-volume, data-driven B2C sales environment. The focus is on managing sales teams, optimizing processes, and driving performance through systems, metrics, and clear routines.
Responsibilities
- Scale the sales organization by developing clear structures, KPI systems, performance routines, forecasting, and capacity management.
- Act as a strategic sparring partner to the founder, contributing to decisions on growth, segmentation, prioritization, and organizational development.
- Manage and optimize the sales funnel and pipeline logic, continuously improving conversion rates, lead times, forecast accuracy, and transparency.
- Lead, develop, and scale a performance-oriented sales team through clear goals, coaching, performance management, and effective hiring and onboarding processes.
- Refine target group segments, use cases, and pricing logic, translating market and performance data into sales priorities.
- Develop scalable campaign and outbound structures in collaboration with Marketing and Growth.
- Drive the advancement of Sales Tech and AI landscape, evaluating tools and automations for efficiency and transparency.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Operations, and Customer Success to ensure a seamless customer journey.
Requirements
- Proven experience in building or scaling large B2C sales teams (approx. 30-50 employees) in high-frequency environments.
- Experience in establishing robust team, leadership, and control structures that function stably under high volume.
- Leadership with clarity, consistency, and a role model approach.
- Understanding of how to set clear performance standards, establish routines, and foster a culture of ownership, discipline, and performance.
- In-depth experience in data-driven B2C sales, ideally in call center, subscription, or comparable high-volume setups.
- Ability to design funnels, conversation flows, and processes for repeatable performance.
- Ability to work confidently in environments with high tempo, clear targets, and measurable performance.
- Solution-oriented under pressure, making data-based decisions and providing team stability.
- Low ego, high accountability, measuring success by results and taking responsibility for team performance.
- Strong analytical skills and KPI orientation, managing sales through metrics and dashboards.
- Understanding of performance drivers such as conversion rates, utilization, forecast accuracy, ramp-up times, and team productivity.
- Affinity for technology and processes, utilizing CRM, funnel logic, performance tracking, and AI-driven automation.
- Strong communication skills, clear, binding, and audience-appropriate.
- Native-level German language skills (C2) and good English skills.
Skills
- Sales Management
- Performance Management
- Organizational Development
- B2C Sales
- Call Center Operations
- Data Analysis
- KPI Tracking
- Process Optimization
- Team Leadership
- Sales Enablement
- Forecasting
- Capacity Management
- CRM
- AI Integration
- Cross-functional Collaboration
Location
- Germany
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Leadership
- Management
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive fixed salary
- Performance-oriented, transparent variable compensation
- Potential for long-term participation in company success
Benefits
- Freedom to shape with entrepreneurial responsibility
- Opportunity to develop sales organization along clear growth goals
- Build structures, teams, and control logic for measurable, predictable, and scalable performance
- Work closely with the founding team
- Data-driven decision making
- Societal impact with economic relevance
- Help reposition people professionally and close skills gaps
- Scalable environment with a solid foundation
- Support, resources, and clear strategic direction
- Ambitious culture - low politics, high trust
- Performance-oriented, transparent, and solution-focused work environment
- High learning curve
- Part of the C-level
- Deep insights into company building, organizational development, go-to-market, and scaling
- Access to a strong network of investors, industry decision-makers, and partners
About the Company
- Talentspring Academy Group is a dynamically growing group of state-recognized digital-first educational institutions.
- Focuses on digital vocational fields, retraining individuals without formal qualifications, career changers, and job seekers for in-demand digital roles.
- Offers state-certified, practical, and relevant programs in areas like Artificial Intelligence, Online Marketing, and Digital Sales.
- Combines the agility of an EdTech with the reach of established educational players.
- Strategic partner GoStudent and co-shareholder Studienkreis Group provide a unique infrastructure with 900 locations nationwide.
- The company is experiencing a growth spurt with a clear product-market fit, AI-first DNA, societal impact, and unique market access.
Equal Opportunity
- Decisions regarding hiring and employment are not based on race, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
- Provides a safe workplace and actively combats discrimination and harassment.
- Committed to ensuring every individual develops to their fullest potential without disadvantage.
- Proud of its diverse team and ensures this lived diversity is met in every position.
