Senior Sales Manager, K4B

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world's leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We're also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is at our core and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

KAYAK is looking for a confident and adaptable Senior Sales Manager to grow new client relationships and drive revenue for our corporate travel platform (KAYAK for Business, or K4B). You’ll lead end-to-end sales efforts, build lasting customer partnerships, and work closely with product, marketing, and operations to deliver results as we scale. If you embrace creative problem-solving, and thrive in engaging conversations and work well in a fast-growth environment, we’d love to hear from you!

This role will be required to work from our Cambridge, MA office at least 3 days per week.

In this role, you will:

• Own the full sales cycle: prospecting, qualifying, presenting, negotiating, and supporting implementation.

• Build and manage a pipeline of new business; convert prospects into long-term customers.

• Deliver clear, tailored product demos and proposals that show how KAYAK for Business meets customer needs.

• Maintain strong product and market knowledge to act as a trusted advisor.

• Share customer feedback and market insights with product and operations teams to improve offerings.

• Work cross-functionally with global teams to ensure smooth onboarding and client success.

Please apply if you have:

• At least 4 years of experience in corporate travel sales.

• Self-starter with a "hunter" mentality, driven to achieve results and meet sales targets in a competitive and dynamic environment

• Demonstrated success building pipeline and closing complex deals.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with comfort engaging senior leaders.

• Ability to collaborate with product, marketing, and implementation teams.

• Familiarity with CRM and sales tools (examples: Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, Google Workspace).

Benefits and Perks:

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year

• Flexible hours and ability to work from home 1 or 2 days per week

• Generous retirement plans

• Awesome health, dental and vision insurance plans with flexible spending accounts

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth

  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace

  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)

  • No meeting Fridays

• Universal paid parental leave

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

• Paid volunteer time

• Focus on your career growth:

  • Development Dollars

  • Leadership development

  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

• Travel Discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• Competitive retirement and health plans

• Free lunch 2 days per week

• Fun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more

Compensation

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this Massachusetts based role is $115,000 - 130,000.00.

In addition to a competitive base salary, roles are eligible to be considered for additional compensation and benefits including: commission-based compensation; health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave and benefits.

Inclusion

At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.

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