Head of Sales Management

You'll lead Luma's regional sales - owning strategic accounts yourself while hiring and coaching a team of Account Executives - and place our creative AI technology with the world's leading brands and agencies. It fits a deeply networked sales leader who still wants to sell, not just manage. If you want a pure management seat or an established playbook, this isn't it.
Own the full sales cycle for strategic accounts - prospecting, demos, and closing high-impact deals with leading brands and agencies.
Hire, mentor, and lead a team of 5+ Account Executives with day-to-day coaching and a culture of excellence.
Build and manage a robust pipeline of advertiser and agency accounts.
Translate Luma's creative AI tools into clear value and ROI for marketing, brand, and creative teams.
Partner with marketing, product, and customer success to refine the go-to-market motion and feed insight back to product.
Learn the product and region, and start closing strategic accounts yourself.
Days 30-60 - Ship & Validate: Close early deals and begin building the team.
8+ years of sales with a track record of exceeding quota, ideally selling creative/marketing tools, MarTech, or media.

• 3+ years of recent sales management, hiring and leading sales professionals.
• Deeply networked in the region's advertising, brand, and agency ecosystem, with an active Rolodex of decision-makers.
• Based in the region, or willing to relocate.

Experience at a high-growth generative AI, media, AdTech, or creative-technology startup (Runway, Pika, Jasper).
A deep passion for creative AI and a strong understanding of multimodal technology.
Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise cycles with creative directors and agency holdcos.

Note: this body covers Sales Manager - West Coast (LA/SF Bay Area) and Sales Manager - East Coast (New York) - localize the region and network language per posting.
About Luma: Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence - the next step beyond language models comes from vision.