Americas Director of Enterprise Open Source Sales - Remote

Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

In Short

• Responsible for several teams of enterprise sales representatives.
• Build and execute a territory plan for outreach and prospecting.
• Identify and prioritize new logo accounts for marketing and prospecting.
• Support contract closure to meet quarterly and annual bookings targets.
• Monitor new pipeline development through outreach and local marketing.
• Ensure accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce.
• Travel regionally for client engagement and industry events.
• Coach and mentor sales representatives.
• Manage team performance and achieve sales targets.
• Represent the company and its solutions effectively.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in engineering or computer science.
• Leadership and management skills.
• Experience with open source technology and solutions.
• Detail-oriented with effective planning and organization skills.
• Experience in enterprise software sales.
• Track record of achieving sales targets.
• Self-discipline and motivation in a distributed team.
• Professional English communication skills.
• Ability to travel for customer engagements.
• Experience in specific verticals like finance, telco, health, etc. is a plus.

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with team meetings twice a year.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Opportunity to travel to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for company events.