Grafana Labs
Regional Sales Director, Commercial, Acquisition, (Remote, CA)
Job Summary
The role of Regional Sales Director, Commercial, Acquisition involves leading and mentoring a sales team to drive revenue growth and develop strategic client relationships within a specified territory. The candidate will develop sales plans, establish quotas, and support the team in closing seven-figure deals through consultative and complex sales cycles. A technical background with experience in application management, visualization, or open-source software is preferred. The position emphasizes strategic planning, relationship building with decision-makers, and collaboration across various organizational functions.
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We're looking for a Regional Sales Director, Commercial, Acquisition who will be responsible for leading a team of Account Executives. As the RSD you will be asked to drive revenue growth, retain and attract new talent, and grow your customer base within your assigned territory. You will be recognized as a sales leader throughout the company – setting the tone and pace for your specified region. We are looking for an entrepreneurial sales leader - someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. You’ll spend your time developing and executing sales strategies, mentoring your team, and strategically partnering with groups across the organization.
You will guide your team through a consultative sales approach where you will learn about your prospect’s needs and then dive into the potential fit. Your expertise will be critical in helping articulate the value of our products and building strong relationships between the prospect and the Grafana sales team. Ideally, you come from a technical background and have sold visualization, application performance management, or cloud-based tooling before. If you have worked with open-source software before, that’s even better. This is a critical hire for the company and you’ll be reporting directly to the Vice President, AMER Commercial and working closely with the rest of the GTM leadership team. We are looking for someone who wants to sign up for that challenge and build something great.
Responsibilities
- Develop and mentor your sales team
- Develop a pipeline to help over-achieve revenue targets
- Direct sales activities by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals
- Build and maintain an annual sales plan (goals) in support of our organizational strategy and objectives
- Meet with prospects and strategize with sales representatives to help close deals
- Help the team prepare for QBRs and HBRs
- Enable and support Account Executives in developing strategic relationships with key decision-makers to uncover and drive new business opportunities within target accounts.
- Strategically partner with Marketing, Solution Engineers, R&D, Customer Support and other functional teams
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of leading successful sales teams
- Minimum 6 years of successful direct sales experience
- Background in technical applications, familiarity with OSS is a big plus
- Experience navigating complex sales cycles that can last 2-6 months
- Excellent communication (written, oral) and presentation skills (in-person, virtual)
- Comfort working closely and building relationships with C-Level executives
- Passionate about recruiting, hiring, mentoring and developing talent with a proven track record
- Consistent track record in shaping strategic seven-figure deals
- MEDDPICC expertise
- Experience working with ROI and cost modeling to educate and assist potential buyers
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and time management skills
- Unwavering dedication to integrity and professionalism
About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
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