Commercial Sales Team Lead - EMEA

Descope; United States; Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founders access

Equity

Uncapped commission

Hybrid work

Tel Aviv office

Job summary

Descope is seeking a high-impact Head of Commercial Sales to lead the EMEA team from Tel Aviv. You’ll hire, coach, and scale a multi-market sales engine while personally closing strategic deals with CTOs and security leaders.

You’ll own the full sales cycle, build pipeline with the founders, and shape go-to-market in Israel and Europe. This role offers competitive base, uncapped commission, and meaningful equity in a fast-growing security/identity company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quota-carrying closing roles in B2B software
• Experience selling into European markets
• Experience leading or managing sales reps with a track record of helping them hit targets
• Comfort with technical conversations and architecture discussions

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach the commercial sales team across EMEA, including Israel
• Own the team's forecast and drive pipeline discipline and execution
• Close deals with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, CISOs, and product leaders
• Partner with founders on pipeline generation and key logos
• Collaborate with marketing, partners, and solutions engineering to build pipeline and campaigns

Skills

Hebrew fluency

English fluency

European market experience

Quota-carrying sales

Leadership/mentoring

Tech audience selling

Quota attainment track

Technical conversations

Builder mindset

Startup experience

Sales tools proficiency

Tools

HubSpot

Claude

Sales Navigator

Gong

Job description

About Descope

Descope is a developer-first identity provider for customers, partners, and AI agents. Our drag-and-drop approach to identity enables developers to easily deploy authentication, MFA, SSO, and MCP/AI agent authentication without writing custom code.

Descope is trusted by over 1000 organizations in production, including GoFundMe, Databricks, GoodRx, Linktree, and You.com. The company has $88M in seed funding led by Lightspeed and Notable Capital.

We're "descoping" agentic and external customer authentication work from developers' daily lives while helping organizations turn identity into a business enabler. Come join us!

Why this role is different

This isn't a “manage from a dashboard” role. You'll lead the commercial sales team based in Tel Aviv, which owns all commercial business across EMEA, including Israel, and you'll carry your own number at the same time. Both halves of the job carry equal weight: leading and coaching the team, and closing deals yourself. You'll work directly with our founders and executive team, and your own book spans the full commercial segment, from high-velocity startups to larger, multi-stakeholder deals, with Israel and Europe as the main priority.

Identity is being rebuilt around AI agents right now. You and your team will be at the front of that conversation with CTOs and engineering leaders who are working it out in real time. You'll also shape how we go to market in Israel and EMEA, and how we build the team that does it, not just carry out a plan someone else wrote.

What you'll do

Leading the team

• Lead and coach the commercial sales team and own results for the entire commercial business across EMEA, including Israel


• Run regular deal reviews, pipeline reviews, and call coaching that raise win rates and deal quality across the team


• Own the team's forecast and set a high bar for pipeline rigor and execution


• Help hire, onboard, and ramp new reps as we grow the team


• Build and refine the sales playbook (messaging, qualification, and the motions that work in EMEA) and bring the team's market feedback to product and leadership

Selling

• Carry your own quota and win new business across the commercial segment, with Israel and Europe as the main priority and the wider EMEA region as a growing part of your book


• Run full sales cycles with technical and executive buyers (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, CISOs, product leaders, and developers), from product-led and freemium conversions to complex, multi-stakeholder deals


• Partner with our founders on pipeline generation, executive relationships, and key logos


• Work with marketing, partners, and solutions engineering to build pipeline and shape local campaigns and events


• Build and forecast your own pipeline with rigor, and consistently beat your number

What you bring

• Native-level Hebrew and English (additional European languages are a plus)


• Experience selling into other European markets


• 5+ years in quota-carrying closing roles in B2B software, ideally selling to technical buyers


• Experience leading or managing sales reps, as a team lead, player-coach, or manager, with a record of helping them hit their number


• A coaching mindset: you make the people around you better, and a rep's win matters to you as much as your own


• A track record of beating quota in deals ranging from transactional to strategic


• Comfort with technical conversations. You don't need to code, but you enjoy talking architecture with engineers


• A builder mindset: you see ambiguity as an opportunity, not a missing process


• A true team player who wins with others, not around them


• Startup experience strongly preferred. Background in identity, security, or developer tools is a bonus


• Fluency with HubSpot, Claude, Sales Navigator, Gong, or similar tools

What you get

• Direct access to founders who have built and exited a category-defining company


• Real ownership of your accounts and your team, and a voice in how Descope grows in Israel and EMEA


• A front-row seat in one of the most important shifts in identity: securing AI agents


• Competitive base, uncapped commission, and meaningful equity

Where You'll Be: Tel Aviv | Full-time, hybrid

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