Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum 3 years of leading successful sales teams, Minimum 8 years of successful direct sales experience, Background in technical applications, familiarity with open-source software is a plus, Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a track record in shaping strategic deals..

Key responsibilities:

Develop and mentor the sales team to achieve revenue targets

Establish sales territories, quotas, and goals

Build and maintain an annual sales plan aligned with organizational strategy

Meet with prospects and collaborate with sales representatives to close deals.

Job description

Grafana Labs is looking for a Regional Sales Director who will be responsible for leading a team of Account Executives in our Swiss region. As the RSD you will be asked to drive revenue growth, retain and attract new talent, and grow your customer base within your assigned territory. You will be recognised as a sales leader throughout the company – setting the tone and pace for your specified region. We are looking for an entrepreneurial sales leader - someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. You’ll spend your time developing and executing sales strategies, mentoring your team, and strategically partnering with groups across the organisation.

You will guide your team through a consultative sales approach where you will learn about your prospect’s needs and then dive into the potential fit. Your expertise will be critical in helping articulate the value of our products and building strong relationships between the prospect and the Grafana sales team. Ideally, you come from a technical background and have sold visualisation, application performance management, or cloud-based tooling before. If you have worked with open-source software before, that’s even better. This is a critical hire for the company and you’ll be working closely with the rest of the GTM leadership team. We are looking for someone who wants to sign up for that challenge and build something great.

Responsibilities

Develop and mentor your sales team
Develop a pipeline to help over-achieve revenue targets
Direct sales activities by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals
Build and maintain an annual sales plan (goals) in support of our organisational strategy and objectives
Meet with prospects and strategise with sales representatives to help close deals
Help the team prepare for QBRs and HBRs
Develop long-term, strategic relationships with key contacts within their account base
Strategically partner with Marketing, Solution Engineers, R&D, Customer Support and other functional teams

Requirements

Minimum 3 years of leading successful sales teams
Minimum 8 years of successful direct sales experience
Background in technical applications, familiarity with OSS is a big plus
Experience navigating complex sales cycles
Excellent communication (written, oral) and presentation skills (in-person, virtual)
Comfort working closely and building relationships with C-Level executives
Consistent track record in shaping strategic seven-figure deals
MEDDPICC expertise
Experience working with ROI and cost modeling to educate and assist potential buyers
Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills
Unwavering dedication to integrity and professionalism

In Switzerland, the OTE compensation range for this role is CHF 393,000 - CHF 403,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

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