Manager of Enterprise Open Source Sales Team

Canonical; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development budget

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Canonical is expanding its enterprise sales team and seeking regional sales team managers across Europe, the Middle East, India, Asia, ANZ, Africa, Latin America, Central America and North America. You will lead a team of five to ten enterprise sales representatives, build territory plans, drive new logos, and close contracts while maintaining strong pipeline and collaboration with customer success.

The role requires a bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science, leadership skills, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science.
• Leadership and management skills.
• Experience with open source technology and solutions.
• Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution.
• Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting.
• Allocate portions of territory and accounts to sales representatives on your team.
• Identify and prioritise new logo accounts in your territory for account-based marketing and prospecting.
• Ensure that sales representatives have high quality account plans for existing accounts and priority prospects.
• Monitor new pipeline development by your team, through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events.
• Support contract closure to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets.
• Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives.
• Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities.
• Ensure your team maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce.
• Represent the company, its solutions and software.

Skills

Leadership

Open source

Enterprise sales

Planning & reporting

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree (engineering/CS)

Job description

Open source software is the new default in the enterprise, and Canonical is the new challenger to major enterprise software vendors. We are profitable and growing our global enterprise sales organisation. We are hiring regional sales team managers in Europe, Middle East, India, Asia, ANZ, Africa, Latin America, Central America and North America, each of whom will lead a team of five to ten enterprise sales representatives.

We deliver better open source from the data center to cloud and edge. Our Linux distribution Ubuntu is now the leading platform for public cloud compute, and the favorite platform for software engineers, data scientists and AI developers. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption and quality of open source globally, and our goal is to ship the most software on the planet by cores. A tidal wave of open source innovation is the next phase of the entire enterprise software industry, and we aim to be the most compelling way to ride that wave.

Our customers include Global 500 enterprises and startups. We are expanding our product range from the base operating system - Ubuntu - to full enterprise solutions in infrastructure and applications. We can deliver software defined storage, private cloud solutions, container runtime environments, as well as databases, message queues, identity, observability, analytics, machine learning and web publishing capabilities. Customers love the idea that they can get security compliance and support for everything open source from a single company. Our goal is to have more solutions on tap than any other vendor, and we have built unique capabilities to make that possible across every cloud, every class of compute and every category of application.

Canonical provides licensed enterprise software products, commercial support, managed services, consulting and training services to customers who are deploying Ubuntu or open source applications on the cloud, in their data center, or to the connected device and IoT ecosystem. We are just over 1,000 colleagues in 70+ countries and over $250m in revenue, profitable, on a steady but relentless growth trajectory. We are almost entirely distributed, with leadership spread across many countries. We believe that talent is equally distributed across the globe, and we are excited to hire, develop, promote and ultimately trust a diverse group of exceptional leads to build the best, not biggest, enterprise software company.

We hire carefully and deliberately; our selection process is long and requires substantial work from applicants. It will take successful applicants three to six months to secure an offer. This is not a place to apply if you are in a rush to find a position, it is a worthwhile place to apply if you are ambitious and long-term in your thinking about your career and the dynamics which move the world forward. If you see clearly the rise of open source, and you understand the drivers of enterprise procurement and technical decision making, then you will understand why Canonical has such a tremendous long term advantage. You will also understand, given the ferocity of competition and the challenges of competing in a market of giants, that we have to set a very high bar for hiring and performance. In order to be a world leading company we select for exceptional ability as well as character, and then provide an environment which promotes teamwork and celebrates diligence, collaboration and effectiveness. All of those are easy to say but hard to do - at Canonical we are willing to be uncomfortable in pursuit of that excellence.

In building our sales team, we look for five things:

• Empathy for the customer - a real understanding of customer needs, industry-specific challenges, and a desire to help customers solve their business problems
• High intellect - the ability to learn quickly, understand very complex subjects, and communicate clearly to build trust and confidence
• Passion for technology - a fascination with the state of the art from brilliant people solving hard problems, and fierce competition for large prizes
• Teamwork - a willingness to help others, to collaborate well with people from different disciplines, and to balance personal and team ambitions
• Energy - the drive to motivate oneself and others to achieve the best result for the team and our customers

Location

We are expanding our sales organisation globally and have open sales team manager roles in every region.

What your day will look like

• Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
• Allocate portions of territory and accounts to sales representatives on your team
• Identify and prioritise new logo accounts in your territory for account-based marketing and prospecting
• Ensure that sales representatives have high quality account plans for existing accounts and priority prospects
• Monitor new pipeline development by your team, through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
• Support contract closure to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
• Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives
• Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
• Ensure your team maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
• Represent the company, its solutions and software

What we are looking for in you

• Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science
• Leadership and management skill
• Experience of open source technology and solutions
• Detail oriented with effective planning, organisation and reporting skill
• Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
• Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
• Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
• Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
• Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events

Additional Skills Of Interest

• Specific vertical experience, in particular finance, telco, health, energy, public sector, tech
• Experience speaking at conferences or industry events

What we offer you

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team meetings in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a fully distributed company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.