Full-Time

Director of Sales

Ever

Ever

51-200 employees

Full-stack AI auto retail platform

Compensation Overview

$170k - $200k/yr

+ Performance-based bonus + Equity participation + 401(k)

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role with 50% travel to active and launching markets.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
CRM
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • At least 8 years of progressive sales leadership experience in automotive retail; electric-vehicle experience is preferred.
  • Demonstrated ownership of multi-market sales teams at volume equivalent to 200 or more units per month.
  • Deep experience running a business development center function, including staffing, service-level agreement design, lead management, and customer relationship management ownership.
  • A track record of building and scaling delivery and customer experience programs.
  • Strong understanding of customer relationship management systems and experience using data to drive coaching and process decisions.
  • Ability to operate in a high-growth startup environment while building business foundations and executing simultaneously.
  • Experience hiring and developing managers.
Responsibilities
  • Own monthly sales targets across all active markets, including volume, conversion rate, and gross profit per unit.
  • Drive full-funnel performance across all stages of the transaction process.
  • Set and hold weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reviews across regional and market-based teams.
  • Establish pricing guardrails and closing frameworks that maintain margin while maximizing conversion.
  • Partner cross-functionally to build inventory, pricing, and merchandising strategy.
  • Own the sales development function, including staffing model, response service-level agreements, lead routing, and appointment-set rates.
  • Build and maintain the lead-handling playbook across inbound and outbound lead channels.
  • Establish and monitor customer relationship management hygiene and data integrity.
  • Develop the capacity model for the sales development organization, including headcount, tools, and workload standards.
  • Own the customer experience from first contact through delivery.
  • Define and enforce delivery standards, including handoff quality, documentation completeness, and customer satisfaction.
  • Establish and execute processes to resolve customer concerns, including warranty issues, post-delivery concerns, and process failures.
  • Partner with the Business Office organization to ensure consistent customer satisfaction in titling and registration matters.
  • Track and act on net promoter score, review scores, and return or cancellation data as indicators of experience quality.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain Sales Managers, Business Development Center Managers, Sales Consultants, and Business Development Center Representatives across markets.
  • Build and run a performance management system covering goal-setting, coaching, performance improvement plans, and promotions.
  • Own the sales training and onboarding program covering product knowledge, process adherence, and electric-vehicle fluency.
  • Create a career-path framework for high-performing team members.
  • Own customer relationship management configuration and adoption.
  • Partner with Program Managers and the Operations team to replicate the sales function in new markets.
  • Drive reporting standards covering measurement, cadence, and ownership.
  • Work cross-functionally to remove friction from purchase and delivery processes.

Ever builds a full-stack AI platform to simplify buying and selling electric cars. The core product helps users list EVs, discover options, and complete transactions through an online marketplace at evercars.com, supported by AI that helps price cars, recommend matches, and streamline steps like financing and logistics. The platform combines software, data, and services to cover the end-to-end auto retail process in one place. What sets Ever apart is its integration of AI with a seasoned leadership team and backing from top investors, bringing together experience from Uber, Tesla, Rivian, Carvana, Lyft, Meta, TrueCar, J.P. Morgan, BCG, and other firms to run auto retail more efficiently. Ever’s goal is to redefine how people buy and sell electric cars, accelerating the adoption of EVs by making the process simpler, faster, and more transparent.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$31M

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

2022

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Ever raised $31 million on February 12, 2026; total funding reached about $100 million.
  • TechCrunch reported thousands of customers already buying and selling EVs on Ever.
  • Eclipse led the round, giving Ever board-level capital and a strong industrial backer.

What critics are saying

  • CarMax cut 230 jobs in January 2026; incumbents are fighting back on cost.
  • Group 1 Automotive cut 700 jobs in May 2026; dealer groups will copy Ever quickly.
  • If Ever misses inventory-turn targets, capital-intensive EV retail destroys margins before national scale.

What makes Ever unique

  • Ever’s AI-native operating system automates pricing, merchandising, sales, and vehicle operations.
  • Ever combines online EV shopping with a San Francisco showroom and nationwide delivery.
  • Ever serves 40 states with 30-plus brands and 200-plus EV models and trims.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-9%

2 year growth

-10%
Ever Cars
Feb 12th, 2026
Ever Raises $31M Series A for AI-Native Auto Retail Platform

Ever raises $31M Series A to launch the first AI-native auto retail platform. Backed by Eclipse, Ever brings scale and efficiency to the $1.2T auto industry.

TechCrunch
Feb 12th, 2026
Eclipse leads $31M Series A for Ever, an AI-native EV marketplace

Ever, a startup positioning itself as the first AI-native, full-stack marketplace for electric vehicles, has raised $31 million in a Series A round led by Eclipse. Ibex Investors, Lifeline Ventures and JIMCO, the investment arm of Saudi Arabia's Jameel family, co-invested. The company operates both an online marketplace and physical locations for buying and selling used EVs. Ever's platform uses an AI-powered orchestration system that handles hundreds of workflows behind each transaction, from appraisals to titling. CEO Lasse-Mathias Nyberg claims this approach makes the sales team two to three times more productive than traditional retailers. Founded in 2022, Ever currently focuses exclusively on electric vehicles, though it hasn't ruled out expanding to combustion vehicles. Eclipse partner Jiten Behl, who spent eight years at Rivian, led the investment.