Director, Sales

**Who is Tenable?**
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 60 percent of the Fortune 500, 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey
**What makes Tenable such a great place to work?**
Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together
**Your Role**:
Responsible for leading a specialist sales team of highly skilled, seasoned sales individuals in our APJ markets. The Sales Director will map the course, develop the vision and implement annual plans and is accountable for delivering measurable results that achieves and exceeds revenue and margin targets.
**Your Opportunity**:

- Act as the front line manager for our Active Directory & Cloud Security sellers to drive business in their regions
- Accurately manage, inspect and report in a predictable manner on all aspects of pipeline development and forecasts for the region
- Split time 50/50 between managing a team and customer interfacing calls
- Works closely with new as well as established channel partners to generate new business opportunities
- Develop go to market plan for specific region
- Lead negotiations for large complex deals
- Work closely with leadership for other functions such as Sales Engineering, Channel, finance, legal, R&D and marketing to ensure efficient alignment to regional activities and to enable optimum sales performance
- Direct sales responsibility for accounts in region and attain revenue goal for new product sales.
- Initiate, establish and maintain contact with team members, prospects, clients, and partners within assigned territory
- Develop recommendations for growth, opportunities for growth, and key target accounts in the assigned territory
- Develop and maintain a complete knowledge of Tenable’s products
- May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.

**What You’ll Need**:

- 10+ years of Director-level management experience of direct reports in a fast paced, highly competitive, ever-changing (specialist / product) sales environment.
- A few years’ experience selling Security Products: Access Management, Authentication, Cloud Security, Vulnerability Management, Continuous Monitoring, IDS/IPS, SIEM, DLP, Compliance, Encryption etc.
- Strong knowledge and understanding on how to sell multi-product software solutions
- Minimum of 8+ years in quota carrying sales role with demonstrated success
- Extensive experience negotiating large complex deals with extremely complex terms, conditions, price pressures and considerations
- Proven track record working with channel and technology partners to build strategic and cooperative sales campaigns together
- History of coordination within an internal set of multi-functional teams such as Sales Engineers, Inside Reps, Field Marketing, Professional Services, and Channel Management to ensure target quotas as achieved and exceeded
- Reference-able expertise of the market, accounts, decision makers and channel partners

If you’ve reached this point, and you’re still not sure if you should apply..Just do it We’re human and we don’t fit a perfect mold. Having diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, that’s a good thing If you’re coming from outside of the cyber industry - great If you’re looking to try something new - awesome All we ask is you bring passion to all that you do, crave creativity and innovation, and embrace the hard work of gaining new skills and accepting big challenges.
We’re committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels.
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