About the Role

As a Channel Sales Manager, National Partners (Midwest) you'll be pivotal in scaling Verkada's reach and impact by developing and managing a network of high-performing LVARs (large value-added resellers). You'll be responsible for driving net new business through the channel—building pipeline and executing strategic plans that result in measurable growth.

This individual contributor role requires strategic thinking and hands-on execution as you collaborate across sales, marketing, and partner teams to grow Verkada’s presence nationally. 

What You’ll Do

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of Verkada’s mission, working hand-in-hand with our sales teams to drive growth and success with channel partners. You’ll be responsible for building pipeline and generating net new business through reseller partners while executing a best-in-class channel strategy. Here’s what you’ll own:

• Drive Net New Pipeline: Proactively identify and generate pipeline with named strategic Large VARs. Collaborate closely with field sales teams to co-sell and close high-value opportunities.
• Execute National Channel Strategy: Develop and manage a focused partner business plan for your territory that aligns with Verkada’s overall GTM objectives and quarterly sales targets.
• Empower Our Partners: Train and enable partner executives, sales teams, and technical stakeholders on Verkada’s full product portfolio, programs, and campaigns to ensure deep engagement and capability across all levels.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Verkada’s internal sales, marketing, and pre-sales teams to drive joint activities, including partner events, demand generation campaigns, and customer-facing initiatives.
• Lead with Insight: Conduct regular QBRs and ad-hoc business reviews with partners to align on priorities, track performance, celebrate wins, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strengthen the Channel Ecosystem: Influence partner sales teams to prioritize Verkada in key deals and business planning efforts. Leverage insights from the field to recommend improvements to Verkada’s channel tools, incentives, and partner program offerings.
• Drive Awareness and Demand: Lead and participate in regional in-person and virtual events to grow Verkada’s brand awareness, build community, and strengthen relationships with key partner contacts and stakeholders.
• Operate Strategically and Tactically: Own the full lifecycle of partner engagement in your region—from onboarding and enablement to pipeline development and revenue realization.
• This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration. 

What You Bring

• Experience & Success: 5+ years of channel sales or partner management experience with a strong track record of building new business via Security Integrators or IT LVAR partners. Experience managing and growing partners: Sentinel, NTT, World Wide Technologies, AHEAD, or Marco Technologies is highly preferred.
• Recognition, such as President’s Club, is a plus.
• Strategic & Creative Thinking: A process-driven approach, complemented by innovative thinking to create scalable, partner-focused initiatives.
• Relationship-Builder: Ability to influence and engage across all levels—from partner sales reps to executive leadership.
• Technical Fluency: Comfortable navigating product discussions and sales operations. Proficiency in Salesforce, Excel, and business intelligence tools.
• Clear Communicator: Strong verbal and written communication skills with sharp attention to detail and a professional presence.
• Midwest based (near a major city/airport): Must be open to 50% travel across the country.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend 
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Locus Robotics is transforming how the world’s leading brands run their warehouses, using AI and advanced robotics to move faster, smarter, and more efficiently than ever before. Our LocusONE platform powers autonomous mobile robots that integrate seamlessly into existing operations, helping teams scale quickly, reduce costs, and keep up with growing demand.

Trusted by more than 150 leading retail, healthcare, 3PL, and industrial organizations across 350+ sites worldwide, we deliver real, measurable impact every day. Our Robots-as-a-Service model removes barriers to adoption and drives continuous innovation, giving customers the flexibility to adapt as their operations evolve. At Locus, you are working on technology that is actively reshaping supply chains and solving complex, real-world challenges at scale.

As an Onsite Technical Specialist, Robotics you will support our next-generation fully autonomous picking solution, Array. This is a high-impact, onsite role responsible for ensuring operational success, validating system performance, and acting as a key liaison between Customer Success, Product, Sales, and Engineering as Array evolves from Alpha to Beta and into General Availability.

This role is based onsite at a customer location in Columbus, OH and requires daily presence Monday through Friday from 12PM-8:30PM ET.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the onsite owner for Array system performance, ensuring daily operational success and stability.
• Monitor system health and performance, including robot activity, task execution, and workflow management.
• Proactively manage and optimize workflows to ensure throughput targets and operational KPIs are achieved.
• Perform onsite robot troubleshooting and repairs as needed to maintain system uptime and operational stability
• Conduct onsite testing, validation, and performance analysis to support product development and continuous improvement.
• Support product validation efforts by providing structured feedback on system performance, usability, and edge cases.
• Compile and analyze operational data (Throughput, UPH, Lines Per Hour, utilization) to generate actionable insights and recommendations.
• Act as a liaison between customer operations and internal teams, ensuring clear communication of issues, priorities, and opportunities.
• Assist in developing and refining standard operating procedures, best practices, and playbooks for Array deployments.
• Contribute to scaling efforts by helping define repeatable models for future Array deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or related technical field.
• 1+ years of experience in warehouse operations, robotics, automation, or technical customer-facing roles.
• Familiarity with warehouse operations, including picking workflows, labor management, and productivity metrics.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting hardware or software systems, or strong technical aptitude with the ability to learn quickly.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into operational improvements.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, particularly in early-stage product deployments.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Willingness to work onsite daily at customer locations and adapt to operational schedules as needed.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage diverse audiences effectively.

Additional Information  

Locus Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The expected base salary range for this role is $50K to $80K annually, based on external market data, plus bonus and equity. Actual offers will depend on factors such as the candidate’s experience, education, training, key or critical skills, geographic location, and current market and business conditions.

Application Fraud Detection Notice: To help maintain a fair and secure hiring process, Locus Robotics may use AI-assisted and other automated tools to detect suspected fraud, misrepresentation, or misuse of the application process. Hiring decisions are not made solely by automated means unless otherwise disclosed where required by law.

Toast Retail is our newest and most significant investment in the future of commerce. Launched in January 2025, Toast for Retail is poised to revolutionize the retail industry by providing an all-in-one operating system for retailers to manage every aspect of their business. Our initial focus is on landing key customers in the CPG space. Toast for Retail empowers these businesses to streamline operations, optimize inventory, enhance the customer experience, and ultimately drive growth.

Role Overview

As the Regional Vice President you will lead a dynamic field sales team that’s transforming how retailers operate. You’ll oversee a group of field-based District Sales Managers and Territory Account Executives across a defined region, driving performance against key goals including unit sales, revenue, employee engagement (eNPS), and customer satisfaction (cNPS). In this role, you’ll be responsible for hiring, onboarding, and continuously developing your team through coaching, support, and performance management—empowering each person to achieve and surpass growth. Beyond a deep understanding of omni-channel journeys, you bring a disciplined, data-first approach to demand generation and pipeline health, ensuring every marketing dollar is an optimized investment toward our aggressive retail growth targets.

Territory Scope:  Major metropolitan hubs including the Michigan corridor, the Ohio River Valley, upstate NY, and the Tennessee/Alabama corridor.

This leader will demonstrate excellence across three core competency areas, along with their associated capabilities:

• Operational Excellence
• Talent identification
• Analytical skills
• Tactical execution & process delivery
• Financial deliverables
• Problem solving, innovation and creativity

• Strategic Thinking
• Strategic vision and planning
• Effective decision making and judgement
• Overall business acumen
• Continuous improvement cycling

• Advanced Leadership
• Coaching/Mentoring
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Interpersonal savvy
• Building culture, morale and team motivation
• Talent development

 A day in the life (Responsibilities) 

• Develop & lead a comprehensive Retail Marketing strategy that drives acquisition, engagement and revenue across retail customers
• Ensure all retail marketing strategies are aligned with revenue goals, owning full-funnel performance and metrics from lead generation to conversion and retention in close partnership with Sales, Product and Finance
• Build the operating model, analytics capabilities, measurement frameworks and data infrastructure to optimize funnel performance and confidently forecast demand and outcomes
• Champion best practices in multi-channel marketing - including digital advertising, organic content, email, field/partner programs and local campaigns - to reach and convert retail business owners
• Partner as a core member of the Retail Leadership Team to architect unified go-to-market programs; you will collaborate across the entire Retail ecosystem - from Product & Engineering to Sales & Customer Success - to ensure marketing strategies are seamlessly embedded throughout the merchant lifecycle
• Partner with the core Marketing organization to leverage global scale across brand identity, joint funnels and shared data infrastructure; you will work cross-functionally to collaborate on performance marketing best practices that drive vertical efficiency and full-funnel optimization

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 5+ years of B2B technology sales leadership experience including at least 3 years directly leading managers of quota-carrying sales teams
• Proven ability to operate effectively at both strategic and hands-on execution levels
• Clear perspective on sales methodologies and their application in dynamic environments
• Commitment to frontline enablement, with attention to detail and a passion for team success
• Experience in building and scaling sales in emerging markets or with new product categories
• Strong collaborator with a track record of fostering a results-driven, inclusive, and team-oriented culture
  Proficiency in sales funnel management and applying data to drive operational excellence
• Background in the retail or point-of-sale (POS) industry is a plus

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy 
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

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