The role, in a nutshell:

We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, and results-driven Business Development Representative (BDR) to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in cybersecurity and a proven track record of success in sales or lead generation roles. As a BDR at Chainguard, you will be responsible for prospecting, qualifying leads, and setting appointments for the sales team to help drive revenue growth.

What you’ll do:

• Prospect and identify potential clients across the DACH region in the security sales market using various lead generation techniques, such as cold calling, emailing, social media outreach, and attending industry events.
• Conduct thorough research on prospects to identify their specific security needs, pain points, and decision-makers.
• Generate a consistent pipeline of high-quality leads by meeting or exceeding weekly and monthly targets.
• Qualify leads by understanding their business requirements and matching them with our security solutions and services.
• Schedule meetings and product demos for the sales team with qualified prospects.
• Collaborate with the sales team to develop and implement targeted sales strategies for specific industries, regions, or clients.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of prospects, leads, and customer interactions in the CRM system.
• Stay current on industry trends, competitor offerings, and emerging security technologies to better position our solutions to prospects.
• Attend sales training sessions and participate in team meetings to continuously improve sales skills and product knowledge.
• Provide feedback to marketing and product teams based on prospect and customer interactions to help refine messaging and improve product offerings.

What we're looking for:

• Based in the UK or Germany.
• German language skills (essential).
• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in sales, lead generation, or business development, within the cloud native, cybersecurity or devops industry.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and relationships with prospects and clients.
• Proficiency in using CRM systems, preferably HubSpot CRM or Salesforce, and other sales enablement tools.
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to work independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Demonstrated ability to meet or exceed sales targets and KPIs.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, products, and services is a strong plus.

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

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 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