Area Sales Director, Southwest

Axonius
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for experienced sales leaders who manage remote teams and drive enterprise growth in cybersecurity, with a focus on high-value accounts and regional strategy.

Best fit for

  • Candidates who have led remote or distributed sales teams and managed enterprise account executives
    — “Experience leading and managing distributed or remote sales teams”
  • Professionals skilled in strategic account expansion and executive-level relationship building
    — “Manage long-term relationships with C-suite executives and CISOs to secure new business and expand existing enterprise, commercial, and public-sector accounts”

Things to consider

  • Must be willing to travel within the Southwest region for client and partner engagement
    — “The ability to travel within the Southwest region for customer and partner engagement”
  • Candidates must reside in California, Arizona, Nevada, or New Mexico
    — “Candidates must reside in California, Arizona, Nevada or New Mexico”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your success in driving enterprise growth and exceeding revenue targets in your resume and interview responses
    — “Documented track record of exceeding multi-million-dollar annual revenue targets in high-growth territories”
  • Emphasize your experience in managing and mentoring enterprise account executives
    — “Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of enterprise account executives focused on high-value strategic accounts”
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What success looks like

  • achieving annual revenue targets
  • expanding market reach
Typical background
10+ years of enterprise software sales experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise Software SalesSales LeadershipData-driven Sales ForecastingC-suite Relationship Management

Preferred

Cybersecurity KnowledgeRemote Team Management

Stack & domain

Enterprise Software SalesCybersecuritySaasCloud TechnologySales LeadershipData-driven KpisPipeline MetricsForecasting ModelsTeam ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementChannel And Alliance Partner CollaborationsCommunicationLeadershipProblem SolvingAdaptabilityCuriosityTeamworkEnterprise Software

About the role

Original posting from Axonius

Location Requirement: Candidates must reside in California, Arizona, Nevada or New Mexico 

The Area Sales Director, Southwest leads the regional Enterprise sales strategy to drive new business growth and account expansion across the Southwest region (CA, AZ, NV, NM) of the United States. This People Leader manages a team of both tenured Enterprise and Strategic Account Executives in the region to strengthen the company's market presence through strategic vision and operational excellence. The mission focuses on achieving annual revenue targets while cultivating executive-level relationships with CISOs and C-suite stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Execute a regional go-to-market strategy to achieve annual revenue targets through the management of data-driven KPIs, pipeline metrics, and forecasting models.

Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of enterprise account executives focused on high-value strategic accounts.

Manage long-term relationships with C-suite executives and CISOs to secure new business and expand existing enterprise, commercial, and public-sector accounts.

Direct regional channel and alliance partner collaborations to accelerate deal cycles and expand market reach.

Minimum Qualifications:

10+ years of enterprise software sales experience, with at least 5 years in a regional sales leadership role within the cybersecurity, SaaS, or cloud technology sectors.

Documented track record of exceeding multi-million-dollar annual revenue targets in high-growth territories.

Proficiency in analytical pipeline management, territory planning, and data-driven sales forecasting.

The ability to travel within the Southwest region for customer and partner engagement.

Preferred Qualifications:

Deep technical knowledge of enterprise security architectures, IT operations, or SaaS management solutions.

Experience leading and managing distributed or remote sales teams.

Demonstrated experience navigating complex procurement cycles within both Commercial and State & Local Education accounts.

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Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate’s salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options and attractive benefits.

Annual On Target Earnings$415,000—$435,000 USDAbout Axonius: 

Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.

Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.

Axonius makes it a priority to invest in our people with competitive compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, community-building, and so much more. Learn more about benefits at Axonius.

At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

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