
Sales Director – Government
ZeroTier, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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About the role
- Drive top-line revenue by driving new logo acquisition and expansion, developing senior relationships with key targets and top accounts across government and government-leaning sales targets, domestically and internationally.
- Work with the sales and marketing team to develop an account acquisition and growth strategy that exceeds quota with consistency while ensuring a strong seamless, sales and customer experience.
- Demonstrate effective pipeline management, creating outbound generated opportunities and qualifying inbound leads.
- Track competitor activity, agency priorities, and procurement trends; feed insights into positioning, packaging/pricing, and roadmap decisions.
- Report on sales performance, key customers, market insights and provide product/proposition feedback to the broader ZeroTier organization.
- Represent the company at industry events, agency meetings, and partner forums; travel as needed based on territory (domestic and international).
Requirements
- 5+ years of successful sales experience in SaaS software and/or networking platforms, with a focus on enterprise sales and meaningful public-sector engagement.
- Strong familiarity with leading deals through public-sector acquisition pathways, including relevant contract vehicles (e.g., GWACs/IDIQs/BPAs and SLED equivalents), pricing/terms, and negotiation to close.
- Proven ability to source, track, and advance opportunities via federal procurement vehicles and portals such as GSA MAS, NASA SEWP, CIO-SP4, Alliant, and DoD eMall, working with agencies and channel partners.
- The ability to build and execute co-sell motions with SIs, resellers, distributors, MSPs, and other ecosystem partners; enable partners and drive partner-sourced pipeline when and where appropriate.
- Experience working in a startup or similar sales environment, creating, progressing, and maintaining a strong pipeline (4x quota).
- Possess a proven analytical and data-driven approach to sales with proficiency using Hubspot, SDFC, Zoom, Slack, Google Suite and other collaboration and lead generation applications.
- Familiarity and technical product/ecosystem knowledge of networking (VPNs/SD-WAN) and cybersecurity technologies. Preferential consideration will be given to candidates with proven success selling SaaS networking and/or security products.
- Excellent cross-functional communication, both written and verbal.
- Ability to perform basic technical demonstrations and answer high-level product and feature questions.
- Our ideal candidate will be passionate, energetic, optimistic, and results-driven with deep technical as well as selling experience, and comfort in cross-collaboration with Marketing and Product organizations.
- Preference will be given to candidates who are proficient in multiple languages.
- BA/BS University degree or equivalent strongly preferred.
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