Avp Sales Dach

At ExtraHop, we're on a mission to help organizations achieve complete visibility, real-time threat detection, and proactive security through cutting-edge network detection and response (NDR) technology. Our NDR product is a market leader, providing our customers with the ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster than ever before.

We're proud of the work we do and the recognition we've received, including our recent Gartner Peer Insights award, which reflects the trust and satisfaction our customers have in our solutions.

If you're passionate about innovation, dedicated to protecting digital infrastructures, and ready to make a real impact, we invite you to join our team and help us shape the future of cybersecurity.

As an Area Vice President Sales, you learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of ExtraHop's products and technologies, competitive products, and industry trends. Your primary responsibility for the role is managing a team of in-region quota-carrying sales managers. The field sales team is responsible for increasing revenue in assigned regions/territories/districts through identifying, recruiting, and developing opportunities for generating direct sales and partnerships with resellers.

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**Specific Duties**:

- Drive agreed-upon sales strategies and processes to meet and exceed sales goals.
- Development of sales plan including target setting and allocating named accounts.
- Great teamwork ethics are required to run a successful sales team which should run as a team vs. a collection of individuals.
- Hire, train, motivate and retain an effective sales force.
- Role model team leadership and management qualities.
- Management of the team's pipeline, qualify, and accurately forecast business.
- Provide timely and accurate field feedback to other departments within ExtraHop.
- Accurately forecast business on a weekly basis.
- Work proactively with resellers and partners to grow business in your territory.
- Meet/Exceed sales team booking target and Proof of Value (PoV) plan.
- Assist the Regional Sales Managers- Meet and exceed assigned sales targets by closing new accounts and growing revenues in existing customer installations.
- Identify prospects for ExtraHop products through cold calls, and lead follow-up and face-to-face meetings.
- Build a qualified pipeline to cover four times the assigned target.
- Work with their Inside Sales team and align best on best practices.
- Define win-strategy for key opportunities.
- Call on senior executives to understand the business, decision-making, and financing processes of your territory.
- Present and demonstrate ExtraHop products to customers.
- Provide customer and competitor feedback and field intelligence where available and necessary.
- Prepare and implement strategic sales account plans for all customers and identify business growth opportunities in the assigned customer base.
- Ensure resellers and field sales engineers and management are working together in the sales process, lead generation, registering opportunities, accurately forecasting revenue, and tracking to required revenue goals established by their discount tier.
- Coach and support the ramp-up and development of the sales force capabilities.
- Prepare and maintain an accurate sales forecast for your territory.
- Become the executive sponsor in the assigned region for key customers.
- Keep Salesforce hygiene within the required parameters.

**Required Qualifications and Experience**:

- Four-year degree or equivalent in a related discipline (e.g., information technology, computer science, business, or engineering).
- 5-10 years managing remote field sales teams.
- Demonstrated technical acumen to articulate ExtraHop's value proposition in a differentiated and compelling manner.
- Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Solid understanding of enterprise security.
- Acute commercial skills with an understanding of how to support Cloud, Capex, Opex and finance requirements.
- Strong independent work ethic and experience working in a dynamic culture.
- Existing senior-level relationships at a wide range of enterprise accounts in your assigned territory.
- Remote based in an major German city
- Ability to travel as required

The base salary for this position is between €140,000 - €150,000 plus commission

**ABOUT EXTRAHOP**

ExtraHop is the cybersecurity partner enterprises trust to reveal the unknown and unmask the attack. We're on a mission to protect and propagate trust by revealing the cybertruth, and we partner with every customer, every day, to uncover it. Our Reveal(x) 360 platform is the only network detection and response solution delivering the 360-degree visibility needed to see everything on the network. When organizations have full network transparency with ExtraHop, they can see more, know more, and stop more cyberattacks.

**ExtraHop** is recognized by leading organizations for both its **innovation in the market** and its **c