sales
Posted 6 days agoSales Director, Enterprise
at Braze
Tokyo, JapanHybrid
Responsibilities
- Set and execute an aggressive customer acquisition and expansion strategy for the region
- Coach your team through the overall sales process, participate, where appropriate, in a hands-on manner in deals, and provide detailed and accurate sales forecasting
- Plan and manage at both the strategic and operational levels
Requirements
- experience leading, and developing a team of enterprise sellers in a high-growth, rapidly evolving, and dynamically competitive market. Your team will focus on the entire lifecycle relationship with their clients, so you should have
- experience helping them develop and evangelize net-new business, while nurturing and expanding the relationships with their customer base. As a front-line leader whose team addresses the problems of customers across multiple industries, you should have strong business acumen, and help prepare for, and participate directly in, customer-facing engagements.
- Strong commitment to achieving numerical goals, with the ability to effectively plan, execute actions, and manage progress toward those goals.
- experience leading a team of at least five quota-carrying Enterprise Account Executives
- A proven ability to recruit, retain, inspire, and develop top talent Proven
- experience in leading teams through the full-lifecycle of a SaaS customer: prospecting, acquisition, retention and long-term relationship growth
- Ability to coordinate and work cross-functionally internally with internal constituencies, including Business Development, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal, and Sales Operations
- Strong technical and business acumen; the ability to engage with multiple customer personas across a wide variety of industries and within both technical and marketing functional roles
- experience selling Mobile or Marketing Technology is a strong plus Prior
- experience in a startup technology company a plus WHAT WE OFFER Braze
- Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement.
- Braze is also proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
- OUR AI-POWERED BRAZE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- To help our recruitment teams focus on what matters most — the person behind each application — we use AI-assisted tools at certain stages of our recruitment process.
- This includes using AI to analyze the experience, skills and
- We also use AI for administrative support, like scheduling and recording interviews and summarizing interview notes.
- Depending on where you are located, you may have the right to request further information about how AI is used in our recruitment process, to opt out of AI-assisted review, to request a manual review of any decision made or to contest a decision.
Benefits
- We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization.
- Align go-to-market teams (BDR, marketing, value engineering, SolCon, executive) to execute the FY plan and represent a clear, single vision to customers and the marketplace
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- benefits and equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
- experience – regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, maternity, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.
Additional details
- At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.
- To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you.
- There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success.
- Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture.
- If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back.
- If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.
- This is a SaaS enterprise sales leadership role, managing a team of Enterprise Account Executives for Braze’s market-leading Customer Journey Orchestration platform. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about helping brands communicate more effectively with their customers, building a winning team, and expanding our highly successful customer base.
- The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of successful
- Your leadership will have a direct impact on the success of our customers, the development of your team, and the success of Braze. WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Hire, nurture and lead a team of world-class sales talent