District Sales Manager

District Sales Manager - Enterprise Accounts Description We're looking to hire a District Sales Manager to grow and lead a team of hard‑driving sales executives focused on breaking into and growing our key enterprise accounts! VAST Data is the AI Operating System for the modern enterprise, bringing together storage, database, virtualization, and AI services into a single unified platform. The world's most innovative organizations rely on VAST to power AI factories, real‑time analytics, and mission‑critical applications at exabyte scale. As we continue to expand our presence across the world's largest enterprises, we are seeking a proven sales leader to build and scale our Enterprise Accounts business while leading a high‑performing team focused on creating new growth opportunities within our most important customers. The District Sales Manager – Enterprise Accounts will lead a team of Enterprise Account Executives responsible for identifying, pursuing, and winning new business opportunities across a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts. This role is focused on driving net‑new growth, expanding VAST into new business units and workloads, and establishing long‑term executive relationships. This leader will own the regional growth strategy, developing repeatable go‑to‑market plays that uncover new opportunities, expand VAST's footprint within strategic accounts, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales Engineering, Alliances, and Executive Leadership to establish VAST Data as the platform of choice for AI infrastructure, enterprise data platforms, and mission‑critical workloads. This is both a people leadership and business‑building role requiring someone who has successfully built high‑performing enterprise sales teams and consistently created new market opportunities within large, sophisticated organizations. THE ROLE Lead and develop a team of Enterprise Account Executives responsible for strategic enterprise accounts within their respective territories. Recruit, hire, and coach high-performing sales talent as the business continues to grow. Build a culture centered on pipeline generation, opportunity creation, and disciplined execution. Coach Account Executives to identify whitespace opportunities, penetrate new business units, engage executive stakeholders, and create demand where no active initiative exists. Provide leadership and guidance across the extended account team, including Sales Engineering, Channel, Alliances, Customer Success, and Executive sponsors. Own forecasting, pipeline development, territory planning, and execution across the district. Generate sustainable revenue growth by driving new customer acquisition, expanding strategic accounts, and partnering closely with Channel Partners, Strategic Alliances, and Cloud Providers to create and win new opportunities. Manage complex enterprise sales cycles that align with customer buying processes. Build executive relationships from initial engagement through proof of concept, production deployment, and long‑term account expansion. Develop and present executive‑level business proposals that clearly demonstrate how the VAST platform enables customers to achieve their business and technology objectives. Build a predictable engine for new logo acquisition, whitespace expansion, and strategic workload adoption across the district. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to bring market feedback into product strategy and help shape VAST's long‑term growth. Success in this role will be measured by the team's ability to consistently create, develop, and win new strategic opportunities while expanding VAST's footprint across the world's most important enterprise organizations. Requirements 10+ years of enterprise technology sales experience, with significant experience selling infrastructure, AI, cloud, or data platforms. 2+ years leading enterprise sales teams with a consistent track record of exceeding revenue targets. Experience selling into large enterprise organizations and managing strategic accounts with complex buying centers. Demonstrated success creating pipeline, uncovering new opportunities, and driving net‑new business growth within large enterprise accounts. Strong executive presence with the ability to engage CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data Officers, AI leaders, and other senior decision makers. Experience building new markets, expanding strategic accounts, or leading greenfield growth initiatives. Demonstrated success leading complex, multi‑stakeholder enterprise sales cycles. Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, AI infrastructure, storage, cloud, and high-performance computing environments. Experience partnering with channel partners, strategic alliances, cloud providers, and ecosystem partners is highly desirable. Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain top‑performing enterprise sales talent. Excellent forecasting, pipeline management, and operational leadership skills. #J-18808-Ljbffr