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About the Role:
As a Regional Sales Director, you will manage all sales activities within the SLED West Region for CrowdStrike Products and Services. This challenging and high-visibility position provides leadership and management oversight to the Regional Sales Managers. You develop long-term strategies and shorter term plans to meet aggressive revenue goals. You must be extremely results driven, customer focused, technologically savvy, and skilled at building internal relationships and external partnerships.
This position is available to candidates located ideally in California.
What You'll Do:

• Provide management oversight to Regional Sales Managers within the Region to drive all pertinent issues related to sales strategy and goal attainment.
• Participate in strategic planning sessions with the sales management team on a quarterly and annual basis.
• Communicate corporate strategy to employees within your Region.
• Plan and direct activities including planning and implementing forecasts, marketing program development, relationship development, customer satisfaction and collateral material development and distribution.
• Establish short-term and long-term goals and quotas in line with corporate objectives.
• Identify needed resources for supporting sales strategy and develop a proposed budget for Senior Management review.
• Identify and qualify important Enterprise sales opportunities at the management level.
• Act as coach, mentor and educator to all Regional Sales Managers within your Region.
• Select, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure sales goals are met.
• Keep senior leadership informed of key issues and changes which may impact expected business results.

What You'll Need:

• Strong verbal and written communications skills, including presentation skills.
• Passionate relationship building and negotiating skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with functional peers across functions including the Channel, Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, Services Customer Support, and Product Development.
• Strong understanding of Cybersecurity technologies and competitive offerings in the marketplace.
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques.
• An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.
• Experience as a successful Regional Sales Manager with a track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in contiguous, multiple years.
• Demonstrated experience working with Sales organizations and technical teams.
• Experience with developing budgets and predicting project costs.
• A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees.
• Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude.
• Ability to work remotely and able and willing to travel on short notice, up to 50% of the time.

Management:

• This individual uses their management and technical skills to develop, modify and execute company policies that affect operations and may have a companywide effect.
• The scope of responsibility for this person includes implementing strategic policies and establishing and adhering to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
• This individual manages the coordination of activities of a Region, with full responsibility for oversight in terms of costs, methods and staffing.
• May act as an advisor or subject matter expert.
• Sets revenue targets and ensures targets are met.

Education and Experience

• A minimum of 8 years of experience as an individual contributor and 1 to 5 years as a people manager is required.
• Experience as a "front line" sales manager leading a sales team selling into State & Local Government and Education accounts highly preferred.
• A Bachelor's degree required; or equivalent experience is required. A Master's degree is desirable.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
• Comprehensive and inclusive health benefits
• Physical and mental wellness programs
• Paid parental leave, including adoption
• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone feels seen, heard, valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. Our approach to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is rooted in listening, learning and collective action. By embracing the diversity of our people, we achieve our best work and fuel innovation - generating the best possible outcomes for our customers and the communities they serve.
CrowdStrike is committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] , for further assistance.
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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in the U.S. is $130,000 - $270,000 per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location.
Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:04-26-2024