Director of Sales, Americas

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Sales director leading Americas revenue, pipeline, and AE/AM teams for Runpod’s AI developer cloud. Building scalable go-to-market processes across new business, expansion, and renewals.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead Runpod’s Americas sales team
  • Own the Americas revenue number and regional pipeline across new business, expansion, and renewals
  • Provide forecasts the executive team can plan against
  • Report to the COO/CRO
  • Lead and coach Account Executives and Account Managers
  • Run deal and account reviews and coach representatives in the moment
  • Stay hands-on in the largest and most complex opportunities
  • Handle executive engagement and master service agreement negotiations with Legal and Finance
  • Convert product-led signups, target accounts, and inbound demand into qualified pipeline with Marketing and Product
  • Apply rigor to expansion and renewals and mature account retention and growth processes
  • Own the Americas go-to-market plan, including segmentation, territories, and target accounts
  • Hire and ramp team members
  • Build playbooks and operating cadence
  • Bring competitive and customer insights to Product and Marketing
  • Apply AI across the sales workflow, from prospecting to forecasting

Requirements:

  • 7+ years in quota-carrying B2B sales
  • 3+ years as a frontline manager accountable for a team’s number
  • Verifiable track record of consistently meeting and exceeding sales targets
  • Experience owning revenue beyond new business, including expansion and renewals
  • Ability to sell to ML engineers, data scientists, executive buyers, and economic buyers
  • Credible fluency in the AI and machine learning stack, including training versus inference
  • Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, including multi-year and master service agreements
  • Strong CRM and sales enablement discipline
  • Rigorous forecasting
  • Habit of using AI tools to work more efficiently
  • Track record in an early-stage or high-growth environment where playbooks were built
  • Self-direction to lead a remote team in a Slack-first, async culture
  • Successful completion of a background check
  • Eligible to work in the United States; Runpod is currently unable to sponsor employment visas

Benefits:

  • Meaningful equity; everyone on the team receives stock options
  • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision plans for employees
  • Partial medical, dental, and vision coverage for dependents
  • Flexible PTO
  • Remote-first work arrangement
  • $1,200 home office and equipment stipend
  • Passionate team working on AI infrastructure
  • Culture, learning, and ownership opportunities