Chief Revenue Officer
Ascera
Chief Revenue Officer
Ascera
Automates cybersecurity compliance evidence
Ascera · St. Petersburg, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-01
Workplace: hybrid
Department: Sales & Business Development
Opportunity Summary:
SP6 is seeking a Vice President of Sales or Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) to build and lead the sales organization for our AI Security and AI Compliance service and software practices, and to deliver our ambitious growth targets in high-growth markets.
The exact role will depend on the candidate's prior skills and experience.
The ideal candidate has led sales in professional services (consulting), managed services, and software organization (either having worked in SaaS or in a partner organization) and has a track record of exemplary, sustained performance. Software sales leadership is a significant plus, as our services are led by proprietary technology attached to services engagements.
This role is ideal for a proven sales executive who wants to build a high-performance culture and a winning team.
This leader will take responsibility for a 14-person sales team (including sales and sales leadership, and growing) that will be focused in the following areas:
Primary Responsibilities:
Drive new customer acquisition, expansion, and revenue growth by:
1. Hit the revenue number
Owns the company's new-business and expansion revenue targets: software resale, services and recurring revenue.
Lead direct sales, channel sales, sales engineering, and a potential newly-developed SDR/BDR team.
Focusing on margin and revenue mix, not just total bookings; ensuring SP6’s mix of Closed Won business is blended across higher and lower margin business and that sellers are not selling on price.
2. Build, Mentor, and Lead the sales team
Recruits, hires, trains and keeps account executives, sales engineers or solution architects, and sales development reps.
Ensure that proper sales enablement is in place for the constant development of sales team members.
Develop internal talent pipeline to ensure the scalability of SP6.
3. Architect SP6's selling systems
Set the sales process and methodology and how performance is managed.
Set quotas and territories, and forecasts accurately each month and quarter.
Designs compensation plans that reward the right behavior, such as bonuses for selling services alongside software or for multi-year deals; as well as are in-line with industry best practices for sales compensation in our industry.
4. Manage the pipeline and the sales process
Owns pipeline health: coverage ratios (often 3–4x the target), deal stages, win rates and sales cycle length.
Runs deal reviews and forecast calls, and keeps CRM data clean.
Works with marketing on lead definitions, handoffs and the share of pipeline marketing is expected to source, which ties to the marketing revenue plan from earlier.
5. Through SP6's channel sales team, manage partner relationships
Ensure the proper management of relationships with software vendors to include Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Splunk and others: partner tier status, certifications, deal registration and margin incentives.
Drive co-selling with vendor sales teams and uses vendor programs like marketplace listings, funding for proofs of concept and market development funds.
6. Own client relationships and growing accounts
Oversee strategic account plans, executive relationships and renewals.
Drive land-and-expand: turning one project into managed services, add-on offerings and multi-year relationships.
Coordinate with delivery leaders so the team doesn't sell work the firm can't deliver profitably. This is critical in consulting, where staffing capacity and utilization limit what can be sold.
7. Marketing Ownership
Own the marketing and demand generation team and function
Establish marketing's pipeline and revenue targets as part of the company's overall revenue plan.
Plan how marketing budget is allocated across demand generation, events, content and brand, based on what produces pipeline and revenue most efficiently.
Drive accountability in Marketing at the same level as sales, with targets for sourced pipeline, conversion rates, customer acquisition cost, and return on marketing spend.
Important: SP6 will only consider applicants for the CRO role, with prior CRO experience.
Required Experience:
10+ years of sales experience, including 5+ years of technology sales leadership at the director level or above.
Leadership of a direct sales team (this is not a channel or distribution role)
Prior sales leadership in software, professional services/consulting, or managed services
Experience leading B2B sales teams across both enterprise and middle-market customers (background in pure SMB will not be considered)
A track record of exemplary performance and sustained year-over-year sales growth
Working knowledge of solution selling or a consultative sales methodology
Background in cybersecurity, MSSP, IT operations, and/or cyber compliance or GRC strongly preferred
Experience and knowledge with any of the following software products is a plus:
Splunk
Microsoft (Sentinel SIEM product)
CrowdStrike NextGen SIEM
Google SecOps
Rapid7
Exabeam
IBM QRadar
Palo Alto Cortex
SentinelOne
Dynatrace (Observability)
GRC (Governance, Risk, & Compliance) solutions
About SP6:
AI use made Secure, Compliant, Resilient
SP6 ensures that organizations get Beyond the Buzzwords ® and delivers Expert Services centered around (3) convergent areas: AI Governance, AI Security, and AI Systems Resiliency. SP6 leads organizational initiatives around:
AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Services
Establishing and enhancing controls around the safe use of AI via Subject Matter Experts on leading industry frameworks including ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and CSA AI Control Matrix.
Evaluating organizations’ adherence to these standards, whether that be for self-monitoring of controls to mitigate risk or adherence to regulatory requirements including the EU AI Act, various state insurance regulation tied to the NAIC Model Bulletin, and other statutory requirements.
AI Security
Hands-on implementation (tooling, training, technical controls) to operationalize organizational standards.
This technical tool advisement and configuration work becomes both the connective tissue to policy as well as the assurance of risk mitigation, from monitoring AI usage (both sanctioned and shadow) and configuring network, endpoint, DLP, SIEM, and other tools with practical defensive security measures.
AI System Resiliency
Ensuring that systems or services that are AI-led are behaving as expected, providing an uninterrupted and seamless user experience.
These services co-exist with legacy expertise and services from SP6 in the Security Operations (SIEM), as the SIEM is an organization’s primary tool for security detection and analysis; as well as our existing Cyber Compliance expertise in Cyber Risk & Compliance (CRC) services.
Why SP6?
The chance to lead a team in a high-growth markets
Competitive salary
Quarterly Bonus plan
401(k) with company match
30 days annual paid time off
Opportunity for long-term career advancement.
Your contributions are felt and recognized at our growing company
Core Values:
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Ascera develops software for organisations managing cybersecurity compliance, including defense contractors handling controlled unclassified information. Its CUIComply, Advanced and ConMon editions organise security plans, control records, evidence and remediation tasks for CMMC and NIST frameworks. The platform combines compliance dashboards and guided documentation with connectors that collect security data from customers' systems and monitor control status. Ascera sells subscription packages and related configuration, training and advisory services to compliance teams and assessment organisations. Founded in 2023, Ascera is headquartered in Clearwater, Florida.
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