The Auth0 Sales Team

Auth0 supports Okta's vision of freeing anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of log-ins every year for Consumer and SaaS applications. 

The UK/I Sales Director Opportunity

The successful Auth0 Area Sales Director will manage a team of Account Executives focused on providing value to Application Development teams (Engineering, Product, Security and Architecture and spearhead the expansion of a global market leader leveraging existing customer references, partner base, and alliance relationships. This leader will drive revenue growth through the both net new logo acquisition as well as by cross-selling and up-selling Auth0 to our current customer base. 

What you'll be doing 

• Attract, recruit, hire, and mentor the Auth0 Account Executive sales team 
• Build a results driven culture through leading by example, setting expectations, providing coaching and mentorship and holding teams accountable
• Consistently deliver and overachieve against targets, holding the AE team accountable for operationally sound delivery and results
• Accurately forecast monthly, quarterly, and annual targets for assigned regions and hold each team member accountable for doing the same
• Establish and manage data and supporting metrics (pipeline coverage, forecasting, ASP, etc.)
• Effectively develop, design, build, and execute all aspects of theBenelux business plan to predictably and consistently generate quarterly results while holding a long-term perspective of overall results 
• Put into place sales structure, processes, and strategic resource plans that will capture key opportunities in target markets, accounts & prospects, partners or industry verticals throughout the Region 
• Own the pipeline generation strategy and with internal stakeholders to execute against the strategy 
• Maintain market intelligence and develop strategies to maintain Okta's leadership position
• Exhibit a growth mindset with the ability to outline the long term vision and strategy 
• Travel as necessary to build and cultivate customer and prospect relationships

What you'll bring to the role:

• Experience building and running sales teams in a SaaS environment
• Deep understanding of and technical aptitude towards SaaS / Cloud Go-To-Market selling motion
• Strong technical aptitude with proven success selling into C-suite and building partnership and buy-in with multiple stakeholders
• Relevant software industry experience in any of the following: IT systems, cloud enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, security, business applications and/or analytics
• Ability to navigate the internal selling ecosystem in order to nurture, close, grow and retain customers
• History of consistently meeting/exceeding targets and objectives personally and as a leader
• Proven ability to hire and retain a high performing sales team with humility and confidence
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills with the ability to build strong business partnerships at all levels
• Expertise using a Sales Framework such as MEDDPICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC + Command of the Message)
• AI Change Champions

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