Senior Director, Sales- West

• →Create a high-performance culture across your region by fostering collaboration, trust, and open communication within a diverse sales team.
• →Encourage healthy conflict resolution and empower team members to learn from each other while maintaining mutual respect.

• →Develop and execute a regional sales strategy (territory plans, pipeline development) that aligns with Honeycomb’s broader revenue and growth objectives.
• →Analyze market trends and customer insights to inform forecasts, refine the approach, and accelerate decision-making to drive sustained growth.

• →Communicate vision and direction clearly, ensuring your team understands evolving strategies, product updates, and priority changes.
• →Foster transparency and honesty by regularly offering and soliciting direct, constructive feedback that keeps the team motivated and on track.

• →Mentor and coach a regional sales team (including Account Executives, potentially SDRs/BDRs) by setting individualized growth plans and skill-development goals.
• →Invest in your own learning (market knowledge, leadership best practices) to elevate both your personal impact and the overall team’s capabilities.

• →Manage the entire sales cycle—from prospecting to negotiation to close—while keeping cross-functional success in mind (collaborating with Marketing, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success).
• →Demonstrate budget and resource stewardship by making data-driven decisions that support Honeycomb’s mission and yield strong ROI. 

• →Meet and exceed sales targets by aligning regional initiatives with Honeycomb’s strategic imperatives.
• →Track metrics and performance (pipeline coverage, forecast accuracy) to ensure progress toward both quarterly and annual revenue goals, reporting regularly to the CRO and other executives.

• Extensive sales management experience, ideally leading teams in high-growth SaaS or developer tools organizations.
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding multimillion-dollar quota targets at the director level.
• Experience with enterprise sales cycles in a technical environment, including complex negotiations with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with demonstrated success in building and developing inclusive, high-achieving sales teams.
• Strategic territory planning and forecasting capabilities, with the ability to convert market data into actionable insights.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills—both internally and externally.
• Adaptability and resilience in a fast-evolving environment, with a willingness to learn new strategies, tools, and processes quickly.
• Commitment to Honeycomb’s culture and manager principles, emphasizing respect, transparency, ownership, and high standards.

 

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