West Security Sales Director: Growth, Strategy & Teams

AHEAD; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Security Sales Leader to own the West US security business, driving bookings, services growth, and strategic direction with regional executives.

You will build and scale high‑performing Security Sales Specialists teams, align go‑to‑market plans with partners and vendors, and deliver repeatable plays that accelerate revenue in a complex regional market.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT sales experience, with at least 3–5 years focused on cybersecurity solutions.
• Deep understanding of the channel business, including experience at or with VARs and SIs.
• 5+ years of sales leadership experience, managing quota‑carrying sellers and building geographically distributed teams.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity solutions such as EDR/XDR, SIEM, SASE, SSE, cloud security, identity security, and data security, and familiarity with leading vendors.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with C‑level executives, CISOs, and security leaders.
• Experience leading in a matrixed environment, collaborating across sales, services, marketing, and alliances.
• Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills; comfortable operating in QBRs, ELT reviews, and executive briefings.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the cybersecurity sales strategy for the West region, driving revenue and margin growth across all verticals and accounts.
• Partner closely with regional core sales leadership to stay aligned on regional goals, account coverage, and execution.
• Measure and manage security performance in both install base and net‑new accounts, ensuring pipeline health and forecast accuracy.
• Lead, develop, and grow a high‑performing team of Security Sales Specialists focused on AHEAD’s security portfolio.
• Ramp new reps to full productivity through 1:1s, deal coaching, QBRs, account strategy reviews, and skills development.
• Set clear expectations and operating rhythms around territory planning, pipeline generation, forecast discipline, and account execution.
• Collaborate with core sales, engineering, partner alliances, and services teams to enhance security go‑to‑market strategies.
• Prioritize sales plays such as AI security, SASE, CETM, SOC modernization.
• Define pre‑sales focus areas and solution architectures.
• Develop professional services, managed security services (MSSP), and advisory offerings.
• Align security services and solutions to client outcomes, ensuring repeatable plays that scale across the region.
• Work with the Director of Strategic Security Partners to cultivate relationships with top cybersecurity OEM sales leadership.
• Support and co‑own regional events, joint account planning, and executive briefings to drive joint pipeline and influence.
• Engage directly with strategic West‑region clients to build peer‑to‑peer security leadership relationships and position AHEAD as a trusted advisor.
• Partner with Security Sales Specialists to shape account strategies, guide opportunity pursuit, and ensure solutions map to business outcomes.
• Support regional client events, executive dinners, and EBCs focused on integrated and AI‑driven security outcomes.
• Own the security business for the West region in partnership with the VP of Security Sales.
• Review rep forecasts and commits for accuracy, leveraging Salesforce, Power BI, and other tools.
• Roll up accurate team commits across Product, Professional Services, and Managed Services and communicate risks and upside clearly.
• Track and analyze KPIs, including vendor growth trends, services attach rates, margin, new logo expansion, and overall performance.

Skills

IT sales

Cybersecurity solutions

Channel partnerships

Leadership

Forecasting

C-level relationships

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AtAHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging,where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD.

AHEAD is a leading IT solutions provider and systems integrator specializing in delivering end-to-end cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure solutions to global and enterprise clients. With a robust portfolio of security advisory, integration, and managed services, we help clients protect their digital assets and infrastructure while enabling secure digital transformation.

Position Overview

We areseekinga dynamic and experiencedSecurity Sales Leaderto drive the growth and execution of our Security business in theWest US region. This role requires a high-performing, customer-centric executive with a proventrack recordof building and scaling high-performing teams and working within the reseller / integrator ecosystem (including OEMs that sell via the channel model).

You willbe responsible fortheAHEAD Security business for the West US region, which includes managing and developing a team of Security Sales Specialists across the West to execute the AHEAD Security go-to-market and grow the Security business. You will build strong relationships with key customers,OEMpartners, regional core sales leadership, and internal stakeholders.

This is a senior leadership role with direct ownership of regional security performance, including growth of bookings with a heavy focus on services growth.

Sales Leadership & Strategy

• Own and executethe cybersecurity sales strategy for the West region, driving revenue and margin growth across all verticals and accounts.
  

• Partner closely withregional core sales leadership (EVPs and MDs)to stay alignedonregional goals, account coverage, and execution.
  

• Measure and manage security performance in bothinstall baseandnet-new accounts, ensuring pipeline health and forecast accuracy.

Team Management & Development

• Lead, develop, and growa high-performing team of Security Sales Specialists focused on AHEAD’s security portfolio.
  

• Ramp new reps to full productivity through 1:1s, deal coaching, QBRs, account strategy reviews, and skills development.
  

• Set clear expectations and operating rhythms around territory planning, pipeline generation, forecast discipline, and account execution.

Services & Solution Development

• Collaborate withcore sales, engineering, partner alliances, and services teamsto enhance security go-to-market strategies, including:

• Prioritysalesplays(e.g., AI security, SASE, CTEM, SOC modernization)
  

• Pre-sales focus areas and solution architectures
  

• Professional services, managed security services (MSSP), and advisory offerings
  

• Align security services and solutions to client outcomes, ensuring repeatable plays that scale across the region.

Vendor & Partner Alignment

• Work in partnership with theDirector of Strategic Security Partners(and security alliances team) to cultivate and manage relationships with top cybersecurityOEMsales leadership).
  

• Support and co-ownregional events, joint account planning, and executive briefingsto drive jointpipelineand influence.

Customer Engagement

• Engage directly withstrategic West-region clientsto build peer-to-peer security leadership relationships and position AHEAD as atrusted advisor.
  

• Partner with your Security Sales Specialists to shape account strategies, guide opportunity pursuit, and ensure solutions are tightly mapped to business outcomes.
  

• Support regional client events, executive dinners, and EBCs focused on integrated and AI-driven security outcomes.

Ownership of the West Security Business

• Own the securitybusinessfor the West regionin partnership with the VP of Security Sales.
  

• Review rep forecasts andcommitsfor accuracy,leveragingCRM and BI tools (e.g.,Salesforce, Power BI) to drive a disciplined forecasting culture.
  

• Roll upaccurateteam commits acrossProduct, Professional Services, and Managed Servicesand communicate risks and upside clearly.
  

• Track and analyze key performance KPIs, including:

• Vendor-specific growth trends
  

• Services attach rates and services mix
  

• Margin performance (Y/Y and Q/Q)
  

• New logo and expansion performance

Qualifications

• 10+ yearsof experience in IT sales, withat least 3–5 years focused on cybersecurity solutions.
  

• Deep understanding of the Channel business, including experience at or with value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators (SIs).
  

• 5+ years of sales leadership experience, including management of quota-carryingsellers;demonstratedsuccess inbuilding and scaling teamsand leading geographically distributed organizations.
  

• Strong understanding of cybersecurity solutions such asSecurity Operations(EDR/XDR, SIEM),Network Security(SASE, SSE),CloudSecurity,IdentitySecurity, andDataSecurity, and familiarity with leading vendors (Palo AltoNetworks, Fortinet, Cisco, Wiz, CrowdStrike, Zscaler,and others).
  

• Proven ability tobuild trusted relationships with C-level executives, CISOs, and security leaders, acting as a strategic advisor.
  

• Experience leading in amatrixed environment, collaborating across sales, services, marketing, and alliances.
  

• Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills; comfortable operating in QBRs, ELT reviews, and client executive briefings.

Why Join us

• Competitive base salary + uncapped commissionwith meaningful upside for overachievement.
  

• Comprehensivehealth, dental, and visionbenefits.
  

• 401(k) with companymatch.
  

• Opportunity tolead and shape a rapidly growing Security practicein a high-visibility regional leadership role.
  

• Direct access to leadingsecurity vendors and partnersand a strong internal bench of security architects, engineers, and advisors.
  

• Collaborative, entrepreneurial culturethat rewards initiative, ownership, and innovation.

$400,000 - $500,000 a year

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits include:

- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

- 401(k)

- Paid company holidays

- Paid time off

- Paid parental and caregiver leave

- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

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