Regional Sales Director
Salesforce · Posted Nov 3
Customer relationship management, cloud computing, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence solutions
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About the role
Salesforce is an AI CRM company whose Cloud business focuses on helping enterprise customers drive transformation through Salesforce technology. The Regional Sales Director leads a team of Account Executives, owns growth and retention across existing and new enterprise accounts, and drives operational rigor across sales campaigns, forecasting, and deal closure.
What you will do
- Position the team to grow successfully beyond its current targets, increasing the revenue of the team year on year.
- Operating in a high-growth environment, this will likely be achieved by defining a clear and compelling plan.
- Effective prioritization. Translating business objectives into specific goals for the given area. Identifying new opportunities in industry verticals and driving expansion into them
- Applying internal and external C-level resources to build a compelling, consistent vision for our enterprise customers
- Cross-functional engagement with Sales, Sales Engineering, Partner Alliances, Services & Employee Success.
- Defining a clear and compelling annual plan, driving a culture of strong execution, orientation towards developing new customer accounts, expanding existing ones and ensuring high retention rates on existing accounts.
- Managing the AE's to help drive and close both strategic/complex deals as well as regular run rate smaller deals.
- Development of the team, including recruiting, hiring and training new account executives on the sales process.
- Driving operational rigor: Overseeing the full cycle of sales: from developing sales campaigns, demand generation.
- Weekly, monthly, quarterly forecast meetings, business reviews, monitoring of the sales activity of the team, and tracking of results.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- A sales management Individual with a proven, successful background in sales of 15+ years, with recent 5+ years in sales management (preferable experience in leading accounts in the HRE industry), ideally in the enterprise cloud space or wider enterprise space, and in building/scaling a large enterprise accounts portfolio, building strong customer relationships at CXO levels, inspiring and motivating a sales team of diverse Account Executives.
- Day-to-day, driving and managing a sales team with a strong cadence of deal closure on a monthly and quarterly basis; track record of consistent over-achievement of quota / revenue and retention goals.
- Strategic sales experience and revenue achievement selling multiple product/solutions offerings, while building satisfied, loyal and reference-able customers.
- Consultative sales skills and ability to construct and articulate strong case and return on investment, strategic account planning and execution skills.
- A belief that the team should be recognized as much for its culture as for its results.
- Can demonstrate examples of inspiring new and existing customers to commit to a journey of transformation, applying technology as a platform
- Proven record of sales success in the SaaS or CRM domain
- Solid understanding of PaaS/SaaS & business value selling.
- Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
- Excellent Business Management and Sales Skills
- A self-starter that can thrive in a fast paced environment.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is a leading global cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and artificial intelligence solutions. Through its integrated Customer 360 platform, the company provides applications for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, and analytics. Powered by innovations like Agentforce, Salesforce helps businesses bridge human capability with autonomous AI agents to drive customer success.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 87000+ employees
- Founded
- 1999
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25B raised
- 2026-03Post-IPO Debt$25B
- 2003-01Venture Round$1M
- 2001-06Series D$46.9M
- 1999-11Series C$13.2M
- 1999-06Series B$3.8M
Leadership
Chair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
President & Chief Strategy Officer
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