Regional Sales Director - EMEA

BlinkOps; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking a Sales Regional Director to lead and grow a team of Account Executives across EMEA. You will mentor the team through complex sales cycles, drive pipeline generation, and help scale operations with efficiency. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of enterprise software sales experience and a track record of exceeding quotas. This role offers competitive compensation and the chance to influence strategic growth.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing Account Executives or a high-performing SAAS B2B sales team.
• 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience with proven track record in quota attainment.
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach a team of Account Executives across EMEA.
• Monitor performance metrics and support Account Executives in closing deals.
• Hire, onboard, and develop new Account Executives.

Skills

Leadership and coaching skills

Enterprise software sales experience

Communication and interpersonal skills

Organizational and analytical skills

Analytical skills

Job description

About us

The industry's only Agentic Security Automation Platform - Blink enables you to automate all aspects of your security operations by combining AI security agents with deterministic workflows. Retain full control as you deploy your own custom army of virtual security employees - each tasked and responsible for managing specific jobs and capable of taking autonomous decisions. These AI agents leverage the deterministic security workflows assigned to them or by calling upon peer agents as required. Blink empowers security teams to rapidly operationalize response to zero-day and emerging threats by automating detection ingestion, cross-environment hunting, containment, and coordination with human stakeholders.

Join our fast growing team, and help put the power of automation in the hands of every security professional.

What You will Do

As a Sales Regional Director at BlinkOps, you'll lead and grow a high-performing team of 3-5 Account Executives across EMEA. You'll be responsible for mentoring your team through complex enterprise sales cycles, driving strong pipeline generation and quota attainment, and helping the team scale with discipline and efficiency. Your leadership will directly impact BlinkOps's go-to-market strategy and growth in EMEA.

Your responsibilities

• Manage and coach a team of Account Executives across EMEA, ensuring consistent pipeline development and deal execution.
• Partner with sales leadership to define and exceed regional sales targets.
• Monitor performance metrics, forecast accurately, and support Account Executives in closing complex enterprise deals.
• Participate in customer calls to provide strategic guidance and remove roadblocks.
• Work cross-functionally with marketing, product, RevOps, and sales engineering to optimize team performance and customer engagement.
• Hire, onboard, and develop new Account Executives as we scale the team.
• Foster a strong, high-performance sales culture.
• Report on team performance, key wins, and market trends to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing Account Executives or a high-performing SAAS B2B sales team.
• 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience, with a proven track record of meeting or exceeding quota, in a relevant space, such as cloud security, DevOps, SecOps, or IAM.
• In-depth knowledge of the challenges and technologies associated with cloud operations, DevOps, SecOps, and IAM.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills, with a passion for developing sales talent.
• Experience managing full sales cycles, from pipeline generation to closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
• Comfortable leading both strategic and tactical conversations with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and influence across functions.
• Self-starter with strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Based in Europe with the ability to travel within the region as needed.