Regional Director of Sales

Synthesia Synthesia · Multimodal · New York, NY · Commercial

This role is for a Regional Director of Sales at Synthesia, an AI video platform company. The primary focus is on leading and growing a sales team to drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by landing and expanding strategic enterprise accounts. The role involves recruiting, coaching, and developing Account Executives, ensuring pipeline generation, and collaborating with marketing and customer success teams. While the company is AI-focused, the role itself is in sales leadership, not directly building or researching AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Grow and lead a US based Global Strategic Accounts team who drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through landing and expanding our highest value customers (10,000+ employees).
  2. Become responsible for ensuring a robust pipeline of sales opportunities is being delivered by the US Global Accounts team, ensuring confidence in future revenue.
  3. Proactively recruiting elite talent - all our leaders are expected to build their own candidate pipelines.
  4. Using your experience, refine and implement a comprehensive account strategy to nurture existing relationships with key accounts and expand reach to a more executive audience.
  5. Driving a Pipeline-Generation (PG) culture where everyone is responsible for outbound.

Skills

Required

  • Leadership experience in landing and expanding enterprise/strategic accounts with quotas of $1m+
  • Experience managing teams in heavy outbound/sales-led organizations
  • Experience in reputable, value-driven, methodological sales environments (e.g., MEDDPICC & Command of the Message)
  • Proven experience in proactively recruiting and building winning sales teams
  • Extensive experience in B2B SaaS sales (new business and expansion)
  • Experience in rapid growth environments
  • Superior process and time-management skills

Nice to have

  • Headhunting reps
  • Experience with transformatory SaaS products sold across line of business

What the JD emphasized

  • drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
  • landing and expanding
  • recruiting elite talent
  • pipeline generation
  • heavy outbound/sales-led organisations
  • pipeline generation (PG)