Director of Mid-Market Sales, UK in London

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

The Director of Mid-Market Sales position is responsible for hiring, managing and mentoring a team of talent to meet and exceed their sales revenue goals. The Mid Market team focuses on accounts up to 2,000 employees in the Corporate space. This team has been tasked with maintaining high activity standards; daily prospecting, pipeline growth, prospect qualification, and delivering assigned monthly and quarterly sales revenue targets.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the team of UK Mid-Market Sales Managers
• Ongoing mentoring and development of sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and mentoring new reps
• Conduct weekly forecast meetings
• You will be reporting on sales activity and forecast to the VP of Sales
• Consistently monitoring the sales activity of the team, and tracking the results
• Quote, negotiate, and assist sales reps in closing highly complex transactions through the development of executive-level relationships with key prospects and channel partners
• Build and maintain executive relationships across key channel partners in the UK
• Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management
• Coordinate and lead weekly and monthly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement

What You Bring

• Demonstrated success in directly leading a high-performing sales team within a sales environment
• You must demonstrate different influencing styles as appropriate to a situation, whilst demonstrating a history of successfully building and maintaining trusting relationships with colleagues and customers
• Proven experience in working in an indirect sales model is mandatory
• Experience of leading, coaching, and developing account executives
• Successful track record in a high-volume transaction sales environment
• Excellent presentation and listening skills
• Should be able to thrive in a very rapidly changing environment
• Proven ability to successfully hire and train new sales representatives and coach lower performers through to success
• Successful history of closing business, and over-achieving quota
• Demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales results
• willingness to travel

Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritises the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 100% for family premiums
• Private medical and dental coverage
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Retirement saving options
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

Additional Information

We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa. As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.