Kong
Regional Sales Director - CEMEA
Job Summary
This role involves leading and mentoring a fast-growing sales team focused on SaaS solutions within the connectivity and API space. The candidate will be responsible for recruiting, onboarding, and scaling the team while working closely with regional leadership to drive sales opportunities and revenue growth. A background in building high-performance sales teams, experience in complex technical SaaS sales, and strong communication skills are essential. The position emphasizes team development, cross-functional collaboration, and driving business success in a high-growth environment.
Required Skills
Job Description
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
About The Role:
- You will be leading and mentoring a fast growing DACH based team of account executives
- You will be scaling the team quickly, with a large focus on recruiting, onboarding and ramping new hires
- You will work closely with the the Regional Vice President of Sales to drive Kong’s success by adding new sales opportunities to the pipeline and closing them
- And any additional tasks required by manager
- Experience building and leading high-performance sales teams at a high-growth SaaS company, selling a complex technical product
- Experience successfully selling SaaS solutions in a field sales capacity
- Experience accurately forecasting and managing pipelines
- A history of scaling teams quickly, with knowledge of how to effectively recruit, train and ramp new hires
- The ability to work cross-functionally, partnering closely with marketing, enablement, operations and other orgs within the company
- Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visitkonghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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Kong
Kong is the most widely adopted API gateway and service mesh, powering the world’s APIs for modern architectures. Accelerate development and productivity today!
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