Sales Director, Enterprise

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Sales

Sales Director, Enterprise role at Braze, a customer engagement platform company. The role involves leading a team of Enterprise Account Executives, setting acquisition strategies, coaching the sales process, and participating in customer-facing engagements. Prior experience in SaaS enterprise sales leadership and selling Mobile or Marketing Technology is preferred. The company mentions BrazeAI and AI agents, models, and features as part of their platform, but this role is focused on sales leadership, not AI development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire, nurture and lead a team of world-class sales talent
  2. Set and execute an aggressive customer acquisition and expansion strategy for the region
  3. Align go-to-market teams (BDR, marketing, value engineering, SolCon, executive) to execute the FY plan and represent a clear, single vision to customers and the marketplace
  4. Coach your team through the overall sales process, participate, where appropriate, in a hands-on manner in deals, and provide detailed and accurate sales forecasting
  5. Be a proactive voice within our enterprise and global sales leadership team

Skills

Required

  • SaaS enterprise sales leadership
  • leading and developing a team of enterprise sellers
  • business acumen
  • coordinate and work cross-functionally internally
  • Outstanding verbal, written and in-person presentation skills
  • Excellent commercial and legal negotiation skills
  • Strong technical and business acumen
  • engage with multiple customer personas across a wide variety of industries and within both technical and marketing functional roles

Nice to have

  • Prior experience selling Mobile or Marketing Technology
  • Prior experience in a startup technology company

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 5 years of successful experience leading, and developing a team of enterprise sellers
  • Minimum of 5 years of successful experience leading a team of at least five quota-carrying Enterprise Account Executives
  • Proven ability to recruit, retain, inspire, and develop top talent
  • Proven experience in leading teams through the full-lifecycle of a SaaS customer: prospecting, acquisition, retention and long-term relationship growth