Director - Sales

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft ASOS Xero monday.com Stack Overflow NASA and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery GitOps and release orchestration solutions.

Founded in Australia in 2012 our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years. Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale.

We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive collaborative and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.

The Director of Sales is a crucial member of our sales leadership team and is responsible for generating revenue across the APAC region. We are looking for highly motivated sales leaders who will mentor and coach Enterprise Account Executives and Account Managers.

To help our teams work together effectively this remote position requires you to be located in Australia or New Zealand.

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for leading the sales team to meet and exceed sales goals.

• Training sales reps on various techniques that are needed to reach set KPIs.

• Identify where improvements can be made and develop sales plans and strategies to achieve sales goals.

• Focus on new sales and account management for our enterprise segment prospects and customers.

• Develop and maintain exceptional relationships with clients.

• Proactively identify customer needs/pain points and direct sales reps to create account growth plans.

• Collaborate with engineering and product management as the voice of the customer for product-related needs and positioning with strategic accounts.

• Work collaboratively and cross-functionally with various teams to help shape Octopus Deploy’s products and solutions to meet customer needs (e.g. marketing success product legal etc.).

Your Background:

• Live in Australia or New Zealand and have working rights.

• 10+ years of sales experience and 5+ years of people management experience.

• Experience leading a sales team in a high-growth technology environment covering enterprise or strategic accounts.

• Familiar with MEDPICC and other selling methodologies

• Ability to train and coach a high-performing sales team as well as lead strategic opportunities individually when necessary

• Ability to build strategic executive relationships with customers and industry thought leaders.

• Ability to work cross-functionally particularly with Product and Marketing to develop product functionality and create effective marketing plays to win clients.

• Must have prior DevOps experience ideally in a pre-IPO company

• Experience in scaling high-growth technology companies not only in sales but operations marketing product etc to $100M and beyond in annual recurring revenue

• Some travel will be required (<25% of the time)

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation . Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.

The compensation for this role is:

Level: Director

People in this role may be expected to participate in an on-call program that pays an additional 5% on top of the base salary. You can opt out of on-call rotation.

Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options generous health care (100% individuals 75% dependents) dental and vision 401K matching pension contributions of up to 5% and stock options. Learn more .

Interview Process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.

👋🏼 Initial chat [30 min]

Talent acquisition screen: Meet with your Talent Acquisition team and get a feel for what it would be like to be an Octonaut!

🧑‍💻 Hiring manager chat [45–60 min]

Hiring manager chat: Designated time to chat with the hiring manager. This is a great opportunity to get to know each other. You should expect the hiring manager to ask questions about your professional background and goals. We welcome any questions you may have for us!

🎉 Panel interview [60–90 min]

Final round chat: In this final round call you meet cross-functional team members. You can expect a mix of leaders and individual contributors to join the chat. By the end of this call you should have a great idea of what it’s like to work at Octopus. We should also have a great idea of what it would be like to have you on the team! We’ll ask any final questions and encourage you to do the same.

Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values how we structure teams career progression leave and benefits and much more.

If you're enthusiastic about this position even if you don’t meet all the criteria above we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.

We know your time is precious. If you apply we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.

[Note to Search Firms/Agencies]

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