Director – Regional Sales
Large Enterprise
Posted on 7/25/2023
INACTIVE
Cloud-based information security company
Company Overview
Zscaler’s mission is to empower organizations to realize the full potential of the cloud and mobility by securely connecting users to applications from any device, anywhere. The company has pioneered a security cloud that has shifted architectural design and approach to network security. With their unique security cloud, the company has created a Zero Trust Exchange platform with their security cloud to enable businesses to reduce cost, risk, simplify IT, and increase business agility.
Data & Analytics
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$168.7M
Founded
2008
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↑ 4%1 year growth
↑ 16%2 year growth
↑ 76%Locations
New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Sales
Communications
CategoriesNew
Sales & Account Management
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in a related field
- 7+ years of Major Accounts Sales Leadership experience in software/SaaS
- Proven track record of building and leading successful sales teams
- Strong sales process and methodology around territory planning, assessment and resource allocation
- Extensive business travel within the region - approximately 75 percent
- Strong leadership, planning, execution, people-management and coaching skills
- Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to establish credibility and trust with customers and to build influential relationships with partners in the business, including Finance, Legal, HR, Inside Sales, Channel Partners and R&D
- Understand both business and people, including their drivers and success factors
- Understand and communicate the business value and/or ROI of installed and proposed products and solutions
Responsibilities
- Well networked to attract top-performing professionals into the selling organization
- Thorough understanding of SaaS business models with enterprise security experience a plus
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, both internally and externally
- Capable of prioritizing the most critical initiatives with a relentless drive to execute
- Desire to be a change-agent in the organization; industrializing processes that scale
- Thorough understanding of various routes to market through a broad network of channel partners
- Polished and professional presence with the ability to “control the room” with C level customer executives
- Ability to lead, and earn the trust of, seasoned professionals with substantial tenure