Work history

Leon Benjamignan

Vancouver, BC · Bilingual EN/FR

I take messy books, teams, and processes and make them measurable - then I stay on them until the numbers move.

Quick Overview: Tesla commercial + operations (promoted 3 times). Founder who kept clients and shipped products that made an impact. Mechanical engineer who still thinks in systems. This page is my full work experience.

Who I’m looking for: full-time roles that own customers, a team, or operations to improve sales, collaboration and customer satisfaction - sales ops, commercial leadership, or systems-building roles as this is where I shine the brightest.

Sales systems Chat & inbound ops Team coaching Process design Bilingual EN/FR Founder-operator
Tesla Motivator Companies I built Engineering Education What people said
+29%
conversion lift on Tesla chat after I rebuilt how the team sold
15k+
customer interactions I personally ran - plus a team of 9
3X
promotions in 4.5 years · Virtual Advisor → Supervisor
3
companies founded · coaching book, food brand, product brand
Oct 2021 — Mar 2026

Tesla

Inside Sales Supervisor · Quality Assurance Coordinator · Virtual Advisor · Vancouver & Montreal

Overview of my tenure

Started on inbound as a Virtual Advisor. Promoted on performance into chat leadership and then Inside Sales Supervisor. I owned a live commercial book, coached nine advisors, built the playbooks the team actually used, and sat in the middle between customers, Delivery, and Territory Ops when something broke. Same person who hit the number and wrote the process.

Sales system

Chat rebuild

Built and led Chat for Canada as leader and trainer. +29% conversion. Coached a team of 9. Mentored new hires until the floor held without me in every thread.

Operations

Self-Serve Demo Drive

Stood up Canada’s first self-serve demo-drive site: process, training, fleet. Helped scale the model beyond the first lot.

Product & knowledge

Tesla Assist

Trained Tesla Assist on Canada policy. Found issues that delayed a bad release on purpose. Built Virkipedia and talking points used across Canada and the NW US.

Also on the plate

Aug — Oct 2024

Motivator

Director of Business Development · Contract, part-time · ~3 months

Short commercial contract: sponsorship sales for the Forward Focus Summit.

2014 — 2022

Companies I built

Triple Your Tribe ran in parallel with the early Tesla years until 2022.

Triple Your Tribe
Founder & business coach · 2015–2022 · Greater Montreal

A retained coaching practice for owners who needed pipeline, positioning, and someone who would not flinch from the numbers. Closest analogue to customer success I had before Tesla: onboard to first value, keep them, expand when the work landed.

  • Ran the book through a CRM (HubSpot) — health, follow-ups, and next action visible instead of living in my head.
  • Audited 700+ accounts. Hosted 11 live events, 1:1 consulting, and a paid mastermind. 600-person group challenges.
  • Client results I still stand behind: £15k organic in 30 days from zero; £64k from bootcamps; first clients in two weeks for someone who had never closed off Instagram.
  • Guest expert on 9 podcasts and in 9 paid mastermind rooms.
Dumpling Nation
Co-Founder · 2020–2021 · Montreal
  • Ghost kitchen from zero with a partner. 12,100+ dumplings, sauces from scratch.
  • 289 customers, 45 repeat. 1,390 organic Instagram followers. Two retail distributors for bulk.
  • Site, email, payments, Instagram, corporate team-build classes in lockdown. Founder ops, not a slide deck.
Oil My Beard
Founder · 2014–2015 · Montreal
  • Designed and launched a grooming product. DTC plus two Montreal barbershops.
  • Grew ~20,000 Instagram followers in months on organic outreach and community — then fulfillment, content, and retail placement myself.
2008 — 2017

Engineering & earlier ops

I explored in various roles building my cross-functional skills while honing in on design, debugging and efficiency.

Trux Accessories
Special Projects Manager · Lead Mechanical Drafter · Marketing Assistant · 2016–2017
R&D · $100k+ contracts
  • CAD and product development for truck lighting. Technical proposals that helped close multiple $100k+ contracts.
  • Also ran brand content — already the commercial + technical split.
CDS Machines
Lead Mechanical Engineer, R&D · 2013–2014
Medical devices · SR&ED
  • R&D on a medical product line under Canada’s SR&ED program. Design, prototype, documentation.
Seed Hawk Inc. (Väderstad)
Design Engineer-in-Training · 2012–2013
Ag machinery
  • Prototypes for large-scale farm equipment. FEA, cost, and work with shop and field teams.
McGill University — 3D metal printer
Lead Design & Systems Engineer Intern · 2011–2012
$3k build · ~$170k avoided
  • Working low-cost metal printer (~50μm layers) on a $3k budget versus a commercial alternative that would have cost about $170k more.
Apple
Inventory Control Specialist · 2008–2009 · first Montreal store
Retail ops

Back-of-house inventory and launches under pressure. Kept accurate numbers and reliable member of the team. Mentored new staff.

Education

Education

McGill University
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering · 2008–2012

Design, systems, and making the prototype exist. The printer project above sat inside this degree.

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What people said

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“You’re a rockstar, Léon. You always stay above the noise and focus on delivering excellent work with positivity. We also need more of Léon’s energy during EOQ — he brings exactly the drive and pace the team needs.”
Ismael Zouhair · Territory Operations Leader, Tesla
“Léon has been absolutely crushing it helping us get the bot’s knowledge up to speed for Canada. The majority of fixes implemented so far are based on his feedback. Without what he’s been doing, our expected release timeframe would have been at least double.”
James Lockman · Staff Project Manager, Tesla Assist
“Léon is integral to our day-to-day operations. Léon is a pillar in our team who continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”
Alberto Colagrosso · Customer Support Supervisor, Tesla
“I've made close to £15,000 in sales directly generated from Instagram — organically — since we began working together [within 30 days]. And that's starting from ZERO, no followers, no paid ads.”
Justin Devonshire · The Transform Hub UK

If you want the short version

I'm in Vancouver and open to full-time work where ownership of customers, a team, or building operations to create predictability on customer satisfaction is the job. Curious to hear from you.

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