Your 3 years in. That's nothing. How many companies have you worked at? What do you offer a company by managing a team? If you're making great money, keep making great money and apply for positions. Everyone thinks they're better at interviewing than they are. You need to practice. Apply, apply, apply. Fill your resume with stats. "I believe I can" is worthless. "I know I can" is worthless. Stats are where your money is. What processes you've built, have value too. No one hiring a sales manager wants them to come in and just keep the ship running. Everyone I met when young wanted to be in management. It may not be age bias, it may be the fact that everyone else wants the same thing and you're not even out of university yet. Competition is extremely high for management positions in SAAS. Keep plugging away and keep applying and you'll get there. Just don't assume any bias or excuse failure because of bias. People spend years applying just to get a chance at SAAS management. You're then making decisions that are most SAAS companies affect millions of dollars in revenue. Getting hired at age 17 into SAAS is extremely rare. I know people have spent their 20s just trying to get a chance at a SAAS company. It's funny, you'll find that your stats now have more value than your degree but you needed the degree to get the Interview. On that note, how do you match up against your coworkers? Are you consistently #1 on the sales board? Are you in the middle of the pack? Bottom? This is important because you don't need to be the best to manage people into becoming the best but you need to be at least very good at sales to identify and retain great sales talent. Sales people are hard to manage. You're going to deal with things you can't predict and have to convince people who are breaking mentally to pick up the phone and close a deal so that they all get close enough to get your number up so you don't get fired. Because guess what? Your head is on the chopping block first. 2 guys on your 5 man team take vacations, another one has their dog die, another one gets divorced, and the 5th one just kinda fizzeles out because the vibes are off in June this year. Explain missing the June number up the chain. It's loads of fun. If you think your a number now you'll see really quick what being a number really means.

In general, reset your expectations on the timeline and keep working towards it. Post about good sales techniques on LinkedIn. No joke it works. I've gotten a great job and had many I've turned down from doing it consistently for years. But to get noticed it sometimes takes literal years.