Channel Sales Manager
Mid-level Channel & Partnerships role at Reli.. Cerritos · full-time · $100,000–$150,000 base.
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- You'll win B2B business for Reli.'s physical products through outreach, events, and relationship building
- You'll run Rel.ai's launch sales cycle from prospecting and demos through pricing, closing, and expansion
- You'll establish separate sales processes, CRM rules, dashboards, and AI-supported revenue tooling
- You'll turn buyer feedback into weekly product guidance for the Rel.ai team
- You'll coach a direct report and help hire and onboard the future sales team
What you bring
- You bring a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related discipline
- You have six to ten years of B2B selling experience with a reliable quota record
- You've handled two concurrent sales motions, such as physical goods and software
- You've carried an individual quota while coaching or mentoring others
- You actively use AI-native sales tools and can build pipeline, processes, and CRM discipline from zero
Who this fits
You'll thrive if you enjoy switching between operational product sales and consultative software selling, while creating the playbook as you go. This is a high-visibility builder role reporting to the Founder/CEO, with one direct report from the start and future team growth. The job is hybrid from the Cerritos headquarters, with office days on Tuesdays and Thursdays and remote work on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
From the employer
- Track 1 - Physical Products
Your buyers: office managers, warehouse and procurement leads, facility managers, restaurant operators, hospitality buyers. Relationship-driven, volume-focused, repeatable
- Track 2 - Rel.ai Agentic Software
Your buyers: CTOs, VPs of eCommerce, Founders of scaling DTC brands. Consultative, technically engaged, high-stakes Both tracks matter. Neither is a ramp-up or a fallback. We're being direct about this upfront: we're looking for someone who finds both motions genuinely interesting not someone who tolerates one to get to the other.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- You're the first dedicated hire across both tracks - no legacy process to inherit and real influence over how both get built
- Reporting directly to the Founder/CEO with genuine visibility into company direction
- Selling a software product that doesn't exist anywhere else, to buyers who are actively looking for this kind of solution
- Physical product pipeline that's already proven at scale - you're not convincing buyers there's demand, you're converting it
- Defined path to Director and VP-level scope as the function scales; internal promotion is core to how Reli. operates
- AI-native from day one - the sales stack, outreach, prospecting, and analytics are built around what's actually possible in 2026, not retrofitted from a legacy process.
Key Responsibilities
- Source and close B2B deals across Reli.'s physical catalog through outbound outreach, conferences, and network development
- Manage mid-market buyer relationships with office managers, procurement leads, warehouse buyers, and facility managers
- Build enterprise and big-box retail pipeline for Year 2 revenue (12-18 month cycles)
- Close inbound B2B opportunities from marketing and partner referrals
- Own the full commercial motion for Rel.ai from launch day one: outbound, demos, pricing, negotiation, close, and expansion
- Build the initial ICP, prospecting playbook, and demo narrative from scratch
- Sell to CTOs, VPs of eCommerce, and Founders at scaling eCommerce brands
- Feed weekly product signal back to the Rel.ai team based on what you're hearing in the field
- CRM setup: source attribution, pipeline review structure, stage-gate criteria for both tracks
- Sales process documentation for physical products and Rel.ai - separately designed, since the motions are different
- KPI dashboard and AI-native tooling stack (research, prospecting, pipeline analytics)
- Manage one direct report from day one; design their evolved role and comp in your first 60 days
- Design their evolved role and comp structure in your first 60 days
- Hire and onboard Year 2+ team members; team scale target is 3-5 by end of Year 2
Physical Product Sales
Rel.ai Software Sales
Function Building
Team Leadership
Qualifications
- Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or related field
- 6-10 years of B2B sales experience with a consistent track record of meeting or exceeding quota
- Proven comfort running two distinct sales motions simultaneously - physical goods and software, or a similar split
- Real player-coach experience: personal quota + coaching and mentoring scope
- Comfortable building pipeline from scratch; cold outreach, conferences, network-building
- Systems thinker: you write SOPs naturally and treat CRM hygiene as part of the craft
- Thrives in ambiguity; does best work when the playbook is still being written
- Genuine, current knowledge of AI-native sales tools - not just familiarity, but actual use Nice to Have:
- SaaS or early-stage software sales experience
- Physical goods, distribution, foodservice, hospitality, janitorial, or packaging B2B experience
- Retail channel or big-box buyer experience
- Early-stage or high-growth company background (50-200 employees)
- Hands-on experience deploying AI sales tooling for research, prospecting, or pipeline analytics
Who This Role is a Fit For
- You've sold across different buyer types and found it more interesting than grinding one motion. You can code-switch between a warehouse procurement conversation on Tuesday and a CTO demo on Thursday without it feeling like whiplash. You like building things from scratch and get motivated by the question of what the process should be not just executing an existing one. You've kept up with how AI is changing sales and have a real point of view on it and you're ready to build a function that operates that way from day one.
Why Reli.
- High-visibility role with regular exposure to leadership
- Defined Growth Plan with structured opportunities for promotion and raises
- Hybrid schedule (Cerritos HQ; in-office Tue/Thu; remote Mon/Wed/Fri)
- 15 days PTO to start, +1 per year of tenure
- 11 paid holidays (in addition to PTO)
- Medical, dental, vision (Blue Shield PPO or HMO)
- 401(k) with employer match
- Monthly wellness stipend up to $260
- Life insurance
- Regular team events and happy hours
A collaborative, innovative work environment that values growth and continuous learning. Opportunities to shape the development landscape and make a real impact. Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation aligned with industry standards.
Hybrid Remote - Reli. is headquartered in Cerritos, CA. Our work-from-home days are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. In-office days are Tuesdays and Thursdays
Reli.’s cornerstone core value is Supporting Happiness. Included within that core value is cultivating the professional growth of Reli. team members.
Each Reli. team member is provided with a Growth Plan that lays out opportunities for promotions and compensation raises in recognition of strong performance and contributions. For team members who show impactful performance and contribution, there will be opportunities for multiple compensation raises a year. Equal Opportunity Employer
Reli. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. About Reli.
Reli. is a minority-owned and family-owned company headquartered in Cerritos, CA, with three strategically located distribution centers nationwide. We are a growing company built around strong values and making an impact, providing a variety of products to make daily lives easier for our business and consumer customers.
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