EMEA Pre-Sales VP: Lead, Scale & Grow Teams

Semperis; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Semperis is seeking an Associate Vice President, Pre-Sales, EMEA to lead, develop, and scale our Pre-Sales organization across the region. You will lead a distributed team of senior Sales Engineers and frontline managers, with responsibility for developing leaders, building a high-performance culture, managing talent and capacity, and driving consistent execution across EMEA.

Locations: UK, Germany, or France.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Pre-Sales, Sales Engineering, or Solutions Engineering organizations.
• Experience leading frontline managers and senior technical professionals across multiple countries.
• Strong track record of building, developing, scaling, and retaining high-performing teams.
• Fluency in English required; additional European languages an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead, recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team of senior Sales Engineers and frontline managers across EMEA.
• Coach and develop managers, strengthening leadership capability and building a pipeline of future leaders.
• Set clear goals, expectations, and accountability while creating a culture of trust, collaboration, high performance, and continuous development.
• Own talent strategy, succession planning, organizational design, hiring, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
• Identify performance and capability gaps and address them through coaching, development, and organizational changes.

Skills

Pre-Sales leadership

Sales Engineering

Executive presence

Cybersecurity

Travel willingness

English fluency

Strategic leadership

Tools

Salesforce

CRM systems

Active Directory

Job description

Semperis is seeking an Associate Vice President, Pre-Sales, EMEA to lead, develop, and scale our Pre-Sales organization across the region. You will lead a distributed team of senior Sales Engineers and frontline managers, with responsibility for developing leaders, building a high-performance culture, managing talent and capacity, and driving consistent execution across EMEA.

Locations: UK, Germany, or France.