Head of Sales, Vanta
EMEA
+ Equity
Automated compliance and security provider
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Automated compliance and security provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- This role demands a high-energy, strategic leader ready to foster a dynamic environment and scale our impact in the market
- Proven Experience: At least 6+ years of experience managing sales teams in a SaaS company, including at least 2 years as a second line leader and manager of managers
- Hands-On Leadership Style: Demonstrated ability to coach and develop your team through direct involvement in sales activities, including joint calls and co-selling, to ensure team members meet their potential
- Analytical and Strategic Mindset: Highly analytical, you leverage data to make informed decisions, adapting quickly to capitalize on new opportunities
- Value Selling Focus: Exposure to value-based selling methodologies and the MEDDPICC discovery framework used in multi-stakeholder environments
- Independent and Creative Problem-Solver: As a self-starter comfortable in autonomous roles, you excel in environments filled with ambiguity and are skilled at independently overcoming challenges and finding creative solutions
- Robust Communication Skills: Your ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization will be key in fostering a collaborative team environment and ensuring alignment with company goals
- Scaling Outbound: Experience supporting a sales team in building outbound pipeline at scale
What the job involves
- As Head of Sales (EMEA) at Vanta, you will lead a sales team consisting of four Frontline Managers and 30+ Account Executives, serving customers ranging from startups to Enterprise
- You’ll be asked to drive significant growth through innovative, value-based selling strategies
- Team Leadership and Development: Oversee a team of experienced frontline managers and Account Executives, cultivating a culture of success and continuous improvement through your coaching. Your leadership will guide the team through fast-paced sales cycles and ambitious growth targets
- Driving Growth: Lead a growing team to deliver on targets reflective of hypergrowth, while executing on market expansion strategies
- Strategic Sales Initiatives: Develop and refine effective sales strategies that maximize our market presence and revenue growth across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Focus on creating a balanced approach to inbound and outbound sales activities, ensuring the team excels in both
- Performance Management: Analyze sales data and team performance metrics to identify opportunities for improvement. Implement actionable insights to enhance sales tactics and team productivity, leveraging coaching frameworks to work side by side with your team members
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, product, and customer success teams to align strategies that enhance customer engagement and drive sales
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for start-ups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with start-ups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta has found a valuable cybersecurity niche within the giant SaaS market. Companies such as Lattice, Clubhouse, and Calm are all customers, demonstrating a growing trend for companies to manage their cybersecurity proactively, which Vanta should be able to take advantage of to further grow and develop into the future.
Kirsty
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $353m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company values
- Put customers first: We center our customers and their needs in our work, and invest in long-term relationships with them
- Presume good intent: We naturally support and uplift our teammates and partners. We are kind to and respectful of Vanta’ns, partners, customers, and even competitors - and we presume good intent, especially with teammates.
- Bias for action: We make decisions and act quickly even in the face of uncertainty. When we get new information, we’re comfortable with reversing decisions as long as we move quickly so we can iterate and learn
- Lead with resilience: We don’t let day-to-day volatility knock us off course - we operate with resilience and fortitude. We see rapid change as an opportunity to continue redefining an industry in service of our customers
- Decide with frameworks: We develop and use frameworks to evaluate alternatives neutrally, focus requests for feedback, explain the “why” behind decisions, and ensure that similar decisions in the future are made consistently
- Do what it says on the tin: We hold ourselves to the highest standards, and are truthful, humble, and accountable, especially when we (inevitably) make mistakes along the way
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(CEO)Worked in Investment at Union Square Ventures, before becoming a Professor at the School of Visual Arts. Co-founded Nebula Labs, and worked in Product Management at Dropbox.
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