Regional Director, Sales - UKISA

About Us

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

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

About Us

• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge.