Regional Sales Manager

Regional Sales Manager

Aqua is looking for a motivated Regional Sales Manager to join our growing team to "hunt big game". In this remote position, you will use your experience and Aqua's unique market position to generate new customer opportunities. You will manage client relationships throughout the complete sales cycle from prospect to closure of the opportunity, as well as deployment and ongoing customer satisfaction. You will be expected to establish trusted relationships and leverage internal technical resources to influence the sales cycle. The ability to work effectively in a team-oriented organization is a must. The right person for this role thrives in a dynamic and fast-growing start-up environment where you can work independently.

This role can be based remotely in: FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, AL.

Requirements

• 5-10+ years of prior strategic account sales experience within Security Solutions, DevOps or the Cloud arena.
• Strong relationships across relevant Security Channel Partners
• Demonstrated success in closing complex six-figure deals with large key Strategic Account customers with a high technical aptitude.
• Proven success and strong ability to build partnerships with C-Level Executives in target prospects and vertical markets (i.e. Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare)
• Track record of success in consistently achieving multi-million-dollar quota and the ability to deliver and close sales of complex services and solutions in a competitive environment.
• Demonstrated success in strategic account planning.
• Ability to leverage modern tools (e.g. AI) as an accelerant to all pipeline generation, relationship and customer development.
• Strong Project Management skills and ability to cross-functionally lead an internal account project team.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with a positive, self-starter attitude.
• Organized and detail oriented with excellent follow-up skills.
• Collaborative individual with the ability to work independently and prioritize tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Completion of a formal sales training program is preferred.
• Knowledge of Cloud and SaaS offerings is required.
• Ability to travel at least 25% of the time is required.
• Ability to conduct business over the phone involving prospecting, selling, and servicing new and existing customers
• Prior experience with Salesforce is highly desired.

Aqua Security is a UNICORN! Founded in 2015, Aqua Security is a global scale-up company widely known for being the largest pure play cloud native vendor, helping enterprises secure their cloud-native applications from development to production, whether they run using containers, serverless, or virtual machines. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation.

Why we're unique:

• Total of $325M in VC funding Most Recent Series E funding event March 2021 with a Pre-money valuation ($1B), and TAM of $17B
• More than 400 enterprise customers across the globe
• Strategic partnerships with the major cloud native platform providers and public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM)
• At the forefront of open-source cloud native solutions and primary cyber security research.

If you're ready to be your best, now is the perfect time to join Aqua! We are a global scale-up, but still small enough for you to make a big impact. We have dedicated employees around the globe. And aside from being in a hot cloud security industry, we love to have fun! Aqua also offers great company culture, amazing colleagues and lots more!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally-protected status.