The role, in a nutshell:

We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard's solutions offer.

Skills/Job Requirements:

• Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory
• Convey value prop and product differentiators to prospects and customers
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota
• Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads, develop and manage leads funnel
• Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
• Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, and sales engineering
• Understand the competitive market, being familiar with competing companies and their offerings

Candidate Background:

• 3+ years of selling SaaS/Security experience required
• Domain experience with one or more of the following strongly recommended: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps Tooling, CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins), and overall SDLC.
• Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
• Ability to learn new products and create/learn processes quickly
• Competitive/Driven
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written
• Team player
• Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
• Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.

Desired Qualifications:

• SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
• Startup experience
• A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
• A sound, tech-savvy business acumen and the ability to articulate a compelling value proposition in a complex and evolving business environment
• Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution

We are looking for a Director of Sales to join our rapidly growing team and manage a team of 5-7 Account Executives.

What you’ll do:

• Report directly to the VP of International Sales and manage a team of 5-7 Account Executives
• Drives, manages and executes the business and revenue of their sales team
• Build a collaborative environment where your team can thrive, learn and grow
• Build and improve processes for AE onboarding and ramping
• Prepares forecasts, territory/industry management and growth plans
• Establishes and reports on metrics to measure team performance
• Drive alignment with supporting teams across marketing, customer success, BDR, sales engineering and customer engineering
• Set the strategy for Chainguard’s largest accounts

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years experience selling a technical product; open source, DevOps or security experience preferred
• 3+ years experience successfully managing high performing software sales teams
• Experience working with the CSP marketplaces
• Proven track record of meeting and exceeding performance objectives (revenue targets, pipeline targets, etc.)
• Experience selling to Fortune500 and a willingness to roll up your sleeves
• Existing Enterprise customer relationships in DACH
• Experience using CRM and marketing automation systems
• Ability to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity and creativity to changing needs and situations; ability to handle a fast-paced environment and challenging workload
• Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
• Experience going through a growth or hyper-growth stage
• Ability to travel as needed

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales (EMEA – Central & Southern Europe) will report directly to the VP of EMEA.

Chainguard is seeking a highly motivated Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales to lead our enterprise sales efforts across Central and Southern Europe. This second-line sales leader will be responsible for all New Annual Recurring Revenue (NARR / NACV) within the region.

Leading a team of Regional Directors, this individual will own all aspects of building and scaling a high-performing, high-impact enterprise sales organization within one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies globally.

The RVP will bring strong passion for the value Chainguard delivers to customers, operating with professionalism, integrity, and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and retain a world-class team of enterprise sellers on time and on budget.

• Enable Regional Directors and Enterprise Account Executives to achieve key productivity metrics and growth milestones consistently

• Drive a disciplined approach to pipeline generation, leveraging field sales, marketing, channel partners, and sales development

• Define and execute a regional revenue strategy, ensuring strong execution and collaborative team selling.

• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, focusing on value realization, retention, expansion, and advocacy.

• Deliver accurate monthly and quarterly forecasting through disciplined deal inspection and forecast methodologies.

• Develop and expand strategic channel partnerships across Central and Southern Europe

• Lead weekly Regional Director forecast calls and facilitate Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to track performance and execution

• Maintain forecast accuracy within +10% / -5% of quarterly and monthly targets.

• Act as Executive Sponsor on key enterprise deals, building relationships with senior stakeholders (CISO, CIO, CTO)

• Partner closely with Marketing to drive demand generation, sales enablement, and go-to-market execution

Qualifications

• Proven second-line sales leadership experience focused on new business and new logo acquisition

• 7+ years of enterprise sales experience with a strong track record of exceeding quota in security, open source, or cloud development markets

• SaaS experience leading subscription-based sales teams

• Demonstrated success in carrying or leading teams with multiple millions in New ARR targets

• Strong “hunter” leadership mindset with experience driving pipeline creation and demand generation

• Track record of consistent overachievement and accountability

• Experience closing complex enterprise deals with multiple stakeholders in emerging or new technology categories

• Experience managing and closing deals of $200K+ ARR, with exposure to transactions exceeding $1M+ ARR

• Strong relationships with channel partners and executive-level customers

• Familiarity with consultative sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDICC, Challenger, Force Management)

• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

• Strong alignment with Chainguard’s values and mission

We are looking for a Director of Sales to join our rapidly growing team and manage a team of 5-7 Enterprise Account Executives.

What you’ll do:

• Report directly to the VP of International Sales and manage a team of 5-7 Enterprise Account Executives
• Drives, manages and executes the business and revenue of their sales team
• Build a collaborative environment where your team can thrive, learn and grow
• Build and improve processes for AE onboarding and ramping
• Prepares forecasts, territory/industry management and growth plans
• Establishes and reports on metrics to measure team performance
• Drive alignment with supporting teams across marketing, customer success, BDR, sales engineering and customer engineering
• Set the strategy for Chainguard’s largest accounts

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years experience selling a technical product; open source, DevOps or security experience preferred
• 3+ years experience successfully managing high performing software sales teams
• Experience working with the CSP marketplaces
• Proven track record of meeting and exceeding performance objectives (revenue targets, pipeline targets, etc.)
• Experience selling to Fortune500 and a willingness to roll up your sleeves
• Existing Enterprise customer relationships in the UK and/or Nordics
• Experience using CRM and marketing automation systems
• Ability to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity and creativity to changing needs and situations; ability to handle a fast-paced environment and challenging workload
• Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
• Experience going through a growth or hyper-growth stage
• Ability to travel as needed

The role, in a nutshell:

We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard's solutions offer.

Skills/Job Requirements:

• Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory
• Convey value prop and product differentiators to prospects and customers
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota
• Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads, develop and manage leads funnel
• Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
• Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, and sales engineering
• Understand the competitive market, being familiar with competing companies and their offerings

Candidate Background:

• 8+ years of selling SaaS/Security experience required
• Domain experience with one or more of the following strongly recommended: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps Tooling, CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins), and overall SDLC.
• Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
• Ability to learn new products and create/learn processes quickly
• Competitive/Driven
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written
• Team player
• Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
• Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.

Desired Qualifications:

• SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
• Startup experience
• A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
• A sound, tech-savvy business acumen and the ability to articulate a compelling value proposition in a complex and evolving business environment
• Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution

We are looking for a Director of Sales to join our rapidly growing team and manage a team of 5-7 Enterprise Account Executives.

What you’ll do:

• Report directly to the VP of International Sales and manage a team of 5-7 Enterprise Account Executives
• Drives, manages and executes the business and revenue of their sales team
• Build a collaborative environment where your team can thrive, learn and grow
• Build and improve processes for AE onboarding and ramping
• Prepares forecasts, territory/industry management and growth plans
• Establishes and reports on metrics to measure team performance
• Drive alignment with supporting teams across marketing, customer success, BDR, sales engineering and customer engineering
• Set the strategy for Chainguard’s largest accounts

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years experience selling a technical product; open source, DevOps or security experience preferred
• 3+ years experience successfully managing high performing software sales teams
• Experience working with the CSP marketplaces
• Proven track record of meeting and exceeding performance objectives (revenue targets, pipeline targets, etc.)
• Experience selling to Fortune500 and a willingness to roll up your sleeves
• Existing Enterprise customer relationships in Northern Europe - Nordics/Benelux
• Experience using CRM and marketing automation systems
• Ability to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity and creativity to changing needs and situations; ability to handle a fast-paced environment and challenging workload
• Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
• Experience going through a growth or hyper-growth stage
• Ability to travel as needed

The role, in a nutshell:

We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard's solutions offer.

Skills/Job Requirements:

• Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory
• Convey value prop and product differentiators to prospects and customers
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota
• Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads, develop and manage leads funnel
• Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
• Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, and sales engineering
• Understand the competitive market, being familiar with competing companies and their offerings

Candidate Background:

• 3+ years of selling SaaS/Security experience required
• Business-level German (C1 or higher) required
• Domain experience with one or more of the following strongly recommended: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps Tooling, CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins), and overall SDLC.
• Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
• Ability to learn new products and create/learn processes quickly
• Competitive/Driven
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written
• Team player
• Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
• Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.

Desired Qualifications:

• SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
• Startup experience
• A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
• A sound, tech-savvy business acumen and the ability to articulate a compelling value proposition in a complex and evolving business environment
• Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution

The role, in a nutshell:

We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard's solutions offer.

Skills/Job Requirements:

• Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory
• Convey value prop and product differentiators to prospects and customers
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota
• Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads, develop and manage leads funnel
• Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
• Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, and sales engineering
• Understand the competitive market, being familiar with competing companies and their offerings

Candidate Background:

• 6+ years of selling SaaS/Security experience required
• Domain experience with one or more of the following strongly recommended: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps Tooling, CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins), and overall SDLC.
• Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets within France as a region
• Ability to learn new products and create/learn processes quickly
• Competitive/Driven
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written
• Team player
• Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
• Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.

Desired Qualifications:

• Hebrew speaker
• Based in Israel
• SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
• Startup experience
• A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
• A sound, tech-savvy business acumen and the ability to articulate a compelling value proposition in a complex and evolving business environment
• Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales (EMEA – Central & Southern Europe) will report directly to the VP of EMEA.

Chainguard is seeking a highly motivated Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales to lead our enterprise sales efforts across Central and Southern Europe. This second-line sales leader will be responsible for all New Annual Recurring Revenue (NARR / NACV) within the region.

Leading a team of Regional Directors, this individual will own all aspects of building and scaling a high-performing, high-impact enterprise sales organization within one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies globally.

The RVP will bring strong passion for the value Chainguard delivers to customers, operating with professionalism, integrity, and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and retain a world-class team of enterprise sellers on time and on budget.

• Enable Regional Directors and Enterprise Account Executives to achieve key productivity metrics and growth milestones consistently

• Drive a disciplined approach to pipeline generation, leveraging field sales, marketing, channel partners, and sales development

• Define and execute a regional revenue strategy, ensuring strong execution and collaborative team selling.

• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, focusing on value realization, retention, expansion, and advocacy.

• Deliver accurate monthly and quarterly forecasting through disciplined deal inspection and forecast methodologies.

• Develop and expand strategic channel partnerships across Central and Southern Europe

• Lead weekly Regional Director forecast calls and facilitate Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to track performance and execution

• Maintain forecast accuracy within +10% / -5% of quarterly and monthly targets.

• Act as Executive Sponsor on key enterprise deals, building relationships with senior stakeholders (CISO, CIO, CTO)

• Partner closely with Marketing to drive demand generation, sales enablement, and go-to-market execution

Qualifications

• Proven second-line sales leadership experience focused on new business and new logo acquisition

• 7+ years of enterprise sales experience with a strong track record of exceeding quota in security, open source, or cloud development markets

• SaaS experience leading subscription-based sales teams

• Demonstrated success in carrying or leading teams with multiple millions in New ARR targets

• Strong “hunter” leadership mindset with experience driving pipeline creation and demand generation

• Track record of consistent overachievement and accountability

• Experience closing complex enterprise deals with multiple stakeholders in emerging or new technology categories

• Experience managing and closing deals of $200K+ ARR, with exposure to transactions exceeding $1M+ ARR

• Strong relationships with channel partners and executive-level customers

• Familiarity with consultative sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDICC, Challenger, Force Management)

• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

• Strong alignment with Chainguard’s values and mission