Regional Director, Enterprise, Growth

MongoDB
London, United Kingdom
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior sales leaders with team-building experience who can navigate complex AI-native ecosystems and drive new-logo acquisition across EMEA regions.

Best fit for

  • Senior sales leaders with experience managing enterprise teams and building new market segments
    — “Reporting to EMEA Sales Leadership, you will own the team’s strategy, hiring, development, execution, and results.
  • Candidates with a track record of winning net-new logos and influencing executive stakeholders
    — “A strong record of overachievement and winning net-new logos
  • Individuals with a background in high-growth startups or AI-native companies and a strategic mindset for go-to-market planning
    — “Experience with AI-native companies, high-growth startups, venture-backed businesses, or developer-led organizations

Things to consider

  • Travel requirements are significant, with in-office presence needed based on team needs
    — “Willingness to travel across EMEA and maintain an in-office presence aligned with team needs
  • This role demands building a repeatable sales motion from scratch for a newly created segment
    — “Build a data-driven go-to-market strategy for high-potential, well-funded AI-native companies.

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience launching greenfield sales teams and defining new market strategies
    — “Experience launching acquisition or greenfield sales teams
  • Emphasize your ability to translate technical concepts into business value for technical stakeholders
    — “Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business value
  • Showcase your background in coaching teams through multi-stakeholder sales cycles
    — “Coach the team through complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles and negotiations
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • new-logo acquisition
  • NARR
  • pipeline goals
Typical background
2+ years of sales management3+ years of quota-carrying sales

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales ManagementQuota-carrying SalesComplex Technology SalesMulti-stakeholder Sales CyclesStrategic Sales Leadership

Preferred

Ai-native CompaniesHigh-growth StartupsVenture-backed BusinessesDeveloper-led Organizations

Stack & domain

Ai-native CompaniesCloudDatabasesEnterprise SalesHigh-growth StartupsVenture-backed BusinessesDeveloper-led OrganizationsSales MethodologyCommunicationCoachingForecastingNegotiationAnalytical SkillsEntrepreneurial EnergyIntellectual CuriosityResilienceBias For ActionAIFinance

About the role

Original posting from MongoDB

MongoDB is launching an EMEA AI Natives team to win high-potential, fast-growing AI-native companies and accelerate new-logo acquisition.

We are seeking a Regional Director, AI Native to build and lead an initial team of five Acquisition reps covering a number of regions across EMEA. 

Reporting to EMEA Sales Leadership, you will own the team’s strategy, hiring, development, execution, and results. You will drive new-logo acquisition and NARR while establishing a repeatable sales motion for the AI-native segment.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in London for our hybrid working model.

What you will do

Recruit, onboard, coach, and develop a high-performing AI Native acquisition team

Define territory plans, account priorities, pipeline goals, and operating rhythms across EMEA

Build a data-driven go-to-market strategy for high-potential, well-funded AI-native companie.

Engage founders, investors, C-suite leaders, engineering executives, and technical decision-makers

Coach the team through complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles and negotiations

Lead strategic opportunities and help the team win net-new logos

Own performance against new-logo, NARR, pipeline, and forecast objectives

Drive adoption of MongoDB’s sales methodology, including MEDDIC

Partner with Marketing, Product, Solution Architecture, Customer Success, Partners, and Sales Operations

Provide market feedback to shape MongoDB’s AI Native strategy and scale the pilot

What you bring

2 years of experience managing a quota-carrying sales team or 3+ years of experience as a quota-carrying enterprise sales representative

A strong record of overachievement and winning net-new logos

Experience building a new market, segment, territory, or sales motion

Success selling complex technology to executive and technical stakeholders

Understanding of cloud, databases, software development, and emerging AI technologies

Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business value

Strong coaching, forecasting, communication, negotiation, and analytical skills

Entrepreneurial energy, intellectual curiosity, resilience, and a bias for action

Willingness to travel across EMEA and maintain an in-office presence aligned with team needs

Things we love

Experience with AI-native companies, high-growth startups, venture-backed businesses, or developer-led organizations

Relationships with AI founders, venture capital firms, engineering leaders, or technical communities across EMEA

Experience launching acquisition or greenfield sales teams

Previous MEDDIC, SPIN, Challenger, or similar sales methodology experience

Why join MongoDB

Lead a newly created EMEA team at the forefront of AI and data

Help define MongoDB’s strategy for one of the fastest-growing technology segments

Work in a people-first culture with strong development and sales enablement programs

Benefit from competitive compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 3273525945

Source: MongoDB careers

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