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title: 'Head of Sales at Joyrideautos'
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# Head of Sales at Joyrideautos

- **Company:** Joyrideautos
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2021-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/joyrideautos/fb2534c2-c136-44a8-a696-0099b8ce2b9f

## Job description

Joyride is a new marketplace in one of the few overlooked segments left in the automotive industry, unclaimed vehicle auctions. Started by a team of successful entrepreneurs, a few car aficionados, and a talented development team, they had the vision to create the industry-leading online auction platform to make it easy and safe to buy and sell unclaimed vehicles.

Joyride launched in April 2020 after a year of laser-focused brand creation and product development. We are now successfully executing regular online unclaimed vehicle auctions in major U.S. cities and expanding into new markets. We are a lean, yet impactful team composed of, positive, and collaborative individuals dedicated to making Joyride the leading unclaimed vehicle auction platform.

As a Sales Leader, you will play a fundamental role in building the sales organization and delivering Joyride’s disruptive product to drive an age-old industry into a new direction. You are passionate about recruiting A++ team players and leading them to achieve sales targets. Your primary focus will be on leading, coaching and developing your team to over-achieve sales targets, excel in customer satisfaction, and reach new heights of professional development.

About you: You are first and foremost a dynamic Sales Manager with natural hunter/closer instincts. You enjoy getting hands-on in the field and interacting directly with customers and internal and stakeholders. As part of the Sales Leadership team, you are adept at creating a mid to long-term vision, set targets, hire top-tier sales representatives (Outside and Inside), and lead the organization to executing on these strategies. You are passionate about helping others and can keep your head during difficult times.

What you’ll do: -Hire, train and motivate a team of Field and Internal Sales Representatives -Lead by example and get in the field -Motivate individuals and the team to exceed their sales objectives through deal coaching, sales skills, product skills training and regular communication of results -Achieve and exceed monthly targets of qualified opportunities and pipeline -Work closely with Marketing to build campaigns that ensure lead quality and quantity with proper closed-loop metric reporting -Regularly report on team and individual results: pipeline, close, and customer retention rates -Own sales reporting and analysis. Identify and make recommendations for improvement in sales productivity

Qualifications: -Proven experience in successfully managing people to achieve performance goals within an inbound and outbound sales team -Proven experience in field sales, preferably in SaaS applications, with a stellar track record of over-achievement of quota expectations -Outstanding communication, organizational and time management skills -Strong metrics and analytical orientation -Excellent written and verbal communication skills -Excellent problem-solving skills -Drive to turn our start-up into the #1 industry leader in Unclaimed Vehicle Auction sales!

## About Joyrideautos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Joyride Autos operates an online auction platform for unclaimed, abandoned, and salvage vehicles, connecting buyers (dealers, dismantlers) with sellers (impound lots, insurers, lenders).
- **Entity Type**: Private (revenue-positive, likely bootstrapped or early-stage funded)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: A team of entrepreneurs, car enthusiasts, and technologists (individual names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Automotive – online vehicle marketplace and auction services
- **Target customers**: B2B – auto dealers, salvage yards, fleet operators, banks, auto lenders, insurers, and impound lots; also serves dismantlers and recyclers
- **Mission/purpose**: To create the industry-leading online auction platform that makes it easy and safe to buy and sell unclaimed vehicles, extending vehicle life and supporting sustainable fleet reuse.

## Products & Services
- **[Joyride Autos Auction Platform]**: A web-based SaaS marketplace for listing, bidding, and purchasing unclaimed, abandoned, and salvage vehicles. Features include vehicle valuation, inspection reports, logistics coordination, and payment processing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Estimated annual revenue in the $1M–$10M range (as of mid-2026); company is revenue-positive with strong unit economics.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Target partnerships include banks, auto lenders, auto insurers, salvage yards, dealerships, and fleet operators. No named institutional investors in public records.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from launch in California, Texas, Indiana, and Nevada to nine major U.S. cities; lean team of ~13 employees across 3 continents (North America, Europe, Asia); active hiring for engineering and operations roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus on undervalued/aging vehicles**: Specializes in a segment underserved by traditional auction platforms (unclaimed, abandoned, salvage), reducing competition.
- **Sustainability angle**: Extends vehicle life amid aging fleets and parts shortages, creating alignment with recyclers, insurers, and parts suppliers.
- **Lean, tech-forward model**: Uses AWS, Google Cloud, React, and Cloudflare to keep overhead low and scale quickly; potential to monetize data insights and API integrations.
- **First-mover in unclaimed vehicle e-commerce**: Established processes for valuation, inspection, logistics, and payments that competitors lack.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Scaling into additional high-volume U.S. markets and exploring cross-border demand (e.g., Philippines Super Taxi initiative).
- **Partnership development**: Deepening relationships with lenders, insurers, salvage networks, and fleet operators to increase auction volume.
- **Platform enhancement**: Building API integrations and data monetization features to serve enterprise customers and streamline buyer/seller onboarding.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a lean, impactful team of motivated, positive, and collaborative individuals. Emphasizes ownership and direct impact on product growth.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Team spans three continents – likely supports remote work with some in-person coordination in San Francisco.
- **Notable perks**: Early-stage environment with opportunity to shape the platform; strong unit economics suggest stability and growth potential.
- **Engineering culture**: Tech stack includes modern web technologies (React, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare) – appealing for engineers who want to work on real-world marketplace problems.

## Sources
1. [leadiq.com](https://leadiq.com/c/joyride-autos/5f4ccd191ecba4fee3006ef7)
2. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/joyride-3)
3. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/joyride-autos)
4. [jobs.dou.ua](https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/joyride-auto-auctions/)
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/joyrideautos)

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