What seniority level is this role?

Verkada targets director candidates for this position.

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Full-time for this Regional Sales Director, UK role at Verkada.

Regional Sales Director, UK at Verkada

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The Regional Sales Director for Verkada in the UK leads a team of Enterprise Account Executives focused on securing corporate accounts with over 5,000 employees. This role requires a strong background in sales leadership, particularly in high-volume transaction environments, and emphasizes the importance of mentoring and developing team members to achieve sales targets. Ideal candidates will have experience in indirect sales models and a proven track record of exceeding quotas. The position also involves significant travel to support business operations and client engagements.

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Listed 10 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Verkada's career page.
Verkada has 318 other open roles including Enterprise Solutions Engineer - Finnish Speaking, Senior Embedded Engineer - Command Connector, Mid-Enterprise Corporate Account Executive (Quebec City).

Quick facts

What seniority level is this role?: Verkada targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Regional Sales Director, UK role at Verkada.

From the original posting

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

The Regional Sales Director, UK is responsible for hiring, managing and mentoring a team of Enterprise level talent to meet and exceed their sales revenue goals. The Enterprise team focuses on corporate accounts with full-time employee counts of 5,000+. Our Account Executives are responsible for maintaining high activity standards; daily prospecting, pipeline growth, prospect qualification, and delivering assigned monthly and quarterly sales revenue targets.

What You'll Do

Lead the team of Enterprise Account Executives in achieving individual and team quota
Ongoing mentoring and development of sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and mentoring new reps
Conduct weekly forecast meetings
You will be reporting on sales activity and forecast to the VP of EMEA
Consistently monitoring the sales activity of the team, and tracking the results
Quote, negotiate, and assist sales reps in closing highly complex transactions through the development of executive-level relationships with key prospects
Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management
Coordinate and lead weekly and monthly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement.
Work closely with channel partners to generate pipeline within the UK

What You Bring

Demonstrated success in directly leading a high-performing sales team within a sales environment
You must demonstrate different influencing styles as appropriate to a situation, whilst demonstrating a history of successfully building and maintaining trusting relationships with colleagues and customers
Proven experience in working in an indirect sales model is mandatory
Experience of leading, coaching, and developing account executives
Successful track record in a high-volume transaction sales environment
Excellent presentation and listening skills
Should be able to thrive in a very rapidly changing environment
Proven ability to successfully hire and train new sales representatives and coach lower performers through to success
Successful history of closing business, and over-achieving quota
Demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales results
This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration

UK Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 100% for family premiums
Private medical and dental coverage
Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
Retirement saving options
Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
Wellness/fitness benefits
Professional development stipend
Healthy lunches provided daily
Commuter Benefits

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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