Director, Sell-Side

Job Description

Job Description

Director, Sell-Side

Location : New York City

In-office : 3-4 days per week

Travel : Quarterly city visits to spend time with teammates and key customers

Reports to : Head of Go-To-Market

About Axial

Axial is the trusted online M&A platform connecting buyers and sellers of $5M-$100M American privately held companies. Trusted by over 4,500 professional acquirers and 3,000 M&A advisors, we have built a pioneering digital transaction platform that radically improves the speed, confidentiality, and success by which private companies achieve successful exits.

Axial is a founder-led, profitable company based in New York City with a hybrid office culture. We've been profitable since 2020 and are the category leader in our market. We are long-term oriented, values-driven, and focused on building a lasting company committed to member trust, operational excellence, and profitable long-term growth.

In 2024, over 10,000 private companies pursued an exit via the platform, leading to over 1,000,000 platform connections, 75,000+ signed NDAs, and over $1B in annual transaction volume (Closed Transactions).

Role Overview : Director, Sell-Side

Axial is hiring a Director to lead the company's sell-side go-to-market organization, the largest and most senior team of individual producers within our GTM function. This role is critical to driving Axial's revenue and platform utilization by instilling a culture of consistency, accountability, and top performance across the team.

Reporting to the Head of GTM, you will manage a group of account executives / account managers who support Axial's investment banking, M&A advisory, and business broker segments. Your mandate is to ensure the team executes with daily excellence : holding reps accountable to activity and outcomes, coaching individuals to hit and exceed their number, and leading by example through team selling and direct customer engagement.

You will be the operational leader of the sell-side business line, focused on execution, coaching, pipeline management, and driving adoption of Axial's deal marketing and business development solutions. You will own and be compensated on the KPIs that define Axial's growth on the sell-side - revenue, deals brought to market, and executed LOIs - making this role central to our long-term market leadership.

Team Structure :

This role manages a high-impact team of in-office and remote individual contributors : five AE / AMs focused on our investment bank and M&A advisor relationships, and two AE / AMs focused on our business broker relationships. The team is actively growing to support the increased number of our sell-side members. This is a hands-on, high-leverage leadership position for someone aligned with Axial's long-term mission and values.

• Reports to : Head of GTM
• Initial direct reports :

2 Senior Managers, Business Development

Key Responsibilities :

Ideal Candidate Profile

Working at Axial :

We are a small, tight-knit, and mission-aligned team (currently 45+ employees with an average tenure of 3.5+ years). You'll have the opportunity to have a direct impact on the growth of the company as a leader managing one of Axial's core go-to-market teams. We have a comfortable and fully functional office in Manhattan on 30th and Park and NYC-based employees are in the office at least 3 days a week (Tues, Wed, Thur). The atmosphere is collegial, and the office is open, inviting, and full of accommodations (kitchen, snacks, coffee, adult beverages, relaxing spaces, games galore, and an upright piano).

At Axial you will also enjoy :

Axial Values :

Compensation

The posted compensation range represents the total On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this role, which includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. A candidate's final package will be determined based on their skills, experience, and market benchmarks.

Your Career Path at Axial (and Beyond)

Successful members of Axial's go-to-market teams have gone on to pursue a variety of professional opportunities both internally and externally. Internally, they've gone on to roles in sales leadership, customer success leadership, product management, and business operations. Outside of Axial, they have acquired companies, taken on roles in private equity and investment banking, or pursued sales and leadership opportunities at other high-growth private companies.

NY Pay Range

$300,000—$375,000 USD