VP, Sales
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VP of Sales leading sales strategy and team for VikingCloud's cybersecurity and compliance solutions. Responsible for managing sales processes, driving revenue, and optimally aligning with marketing and customer success.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and own the end-to-end sales strategy, including territory design, go-to-market motions, pricing, and packaging.
- Drive forecast accuracy, pipeline generation, win rates, average deal size, and sales cycle velocity.
- Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing sales team (hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, succession planning).
- Align with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to ensure a cohesive revenue engine and optimal customer experience.
- Establish and optimize territory plans, account segmentation, and target lists; balance new logo acquisition with expansion within existing customers.
- Build and manage a robust sales process, playbooks, CRM discipline, and reporting cadence.
- Collaborate on product feedback and market intelligence to influence product roadmap and messaging.
- Develop and enforce pricing strategies, discounting guidelines, and contract approval processes.
- Manage key strategic alliances, partners, and channel programs when applicable.
- Define and track KPIs and dashboards; present quarterly business reviews to executive leadership.
- Foster a data-driven culture while maintaining a human-centered approach to coaching and motivation.
- Champion customer success by driving renewals, upsells, and long-term.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of sales leadership experience, with a proven track record of achieving revenue targets in [your industry/space, e.g., SaaS, enterprise software, B2B services].
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling a high-velocity and/or enterprise sales organization.
- Deep experience with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) and sales analytics/tools; strong pipeline and forecast management.
- Exceptional leadership, hiring, coaching, and people development skills.
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and ability to influence cross-functionally.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
- Experience in cybersecurity, AI software.
- Multiregional or international sales leadership experience.
- Ability to articulate value propositions to C-suite and line-of-business buyers.
- Familiarity with channel/partner ecosystems and indirect sales strategies.
- Experience with pricing models, packaging, and contract negotiations at scale.
















