
Sales Manager
About the role
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. This is a player-coach role.
You'll both close deals and build the team, refining the regional playbook in a high-velocity, ambiguous environment rather than following a set one. 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.
What You'll Own
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Own the full sales cycle for strategic accounts — prospecting, demos, and closing high-impact deals with leading brands and agencies.
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Hire, mentor, and lead a team of 5+ Account Executives with day-to-day coaching and a culture of excellence.
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Build and manage a robust pipeline of advertiser and agency accounts.
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Translate Luma's creative AI tools into clear value and ROI for marketing, brand, and creative teams.
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Partner with marketing, product, and customer success to refine the go-to-market motion and feed insight back to product.
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Refine the foundational playbooks that grow the regional footprint.
First 90 Days
One way the first 90 could unfold.
- Days 1–30 — Immerse & Diagnose:
Learn the product and region, and start closing strategic accounts yourself.
- Days 30–60 — Ship & Validate:
Close early deals and begin building the team.
- Days 60–90 — Scale & Systemize:
Grow the AE team and refine the regional playbook.
What You Bring
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8+ years of sales with a track record of exceeding quota, ideally selling creative/marketing tools, Mar Tech, or media.
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3+ years of recent sales management, hiring and leading sales professionals.
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Deeply networked in the region's advertising, brand, and agency ecosystem, with an active Rolodex of decision-makers.
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A player-coach who'll close deals today and scale a team, comfortable with ambiguity in early-stage growth.
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Based in the region, or willing to relocate.
Nice to Have
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Experience at a high-growth generative AI, media, Ad Tech, or creative-technology startup (Runway, Pika, Jasper).
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A deep passion for creative AI and a strong understanding of multimodal technology.
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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. Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
About Luma AI
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