Sales Director, OneTrust
Strategic -Midwest
$148.5-198.5k
AI-ready governance platform
Job no longer available
AI-ready governance platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$148.5-198.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of sales leadership experience developing and leading a senior team of quota carrying salespeople
- Strong background in leading a team of Strategic Account Executives
- Shown ability to create hard-working teams and lead them to success
- Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred
- A proven thought leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance
- An individual with prior field experience working within the Software/Platform (SaaS, PaaS) space
- Extensive experience working in a value driven sales environment in a customer facing in a solution-oriented capacity
- Experience coaching, developing and nurturing salespeople at all levels, to help them achieve their goals and objectives
- Strong analytical and presentation skills, and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional audiences
- Proven success in constructing and closing large deals
- A self-starter that can thrive in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for developing and managing a productive Sales team of Strategic Account Executives
- You will demonstrate the ability to train, motivate, and coach these individuals to meet and exceed individual and team goals and metrics
- You will also qualify sales opportunities, setting proper customer expectations, and handling negotiations
- Lead a team of Strategic Account Executives to sell the entire OneTrust platform across all verticals
- Drive strategic engagement with customers across C-level executives
- Lead a culture of sales excellence; drive consistent implementation and
- Adoption of sales processes, pipeline management, measurement, or success KPI’s and sales performance
- Conduct regular business reviews with the team to ensure alignment to the plan
- Coach the team to execute account plans
- Monthly & quarterly business review cadence to track progress on stated objectives
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive multi-year account plan to meet or exceed customer objectives and share of wallet
Our take
It's becoming clear that as businesses rapidly adopt AI, governance is struggling to keep up. Companies are moving from a handful of tools to potentially hundreds of AI agents, creating new challenges around oversight, data use and risk. As privacy and security concerns grow, organizations are realizing that scaling AI without proper control can introduce just as many risks as opportunities.
That's where OneTrust comes in, with its "AI-powered governance platform" helping organizations track how AI systems operate, what data they access and how it's used. Rather than relying on static compliance checks, it focuses on continuous, real-time monitoring, building on its foundations in privacy, consent and risk management to give companies greater control over complex AI environments.
With more than 14,000 customers, including over half of the Fortune 500, OneTrust is entering a key phase of growth. Under new CEO John Heyman, the company is leaning into the idea that AI governance will become a core business need. As adoption accelerates, OneTrust is positioning itself as a central player in helping enterprise scale AI safely and responsibly.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Apr 2023
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: Top talent deserves top pay. Our competitive total packages include pay equity for all and bonuses.
- Mental Health & Support: Through a mental wellbeing platform and 14 weeks of parental bonding leave, inclusive of adoption, you can feel supported through all of life’s biggest changes.
- Time Off: Everyone needs time to rest and recharge. We offer flexible PTO, company recharge days, and volunteer time off globally. You’ll also have generous company holidays and paid sick days.
- Flexibility: Embrace a hybrid working model with opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person and virtually. Click here to learn more about our location strategy and hybrid workplace model.
- Career Development: Become an expert in trust intelligence with our robust onboarding bootcamp and by earning industry certifications paid for by us.
- Employee Recognition: We celebrate our accomplishments the best way we know how – together. Our Values Spotlight Awards recognize teams across the company for their contributions.
Company HQ
Old Fourth Ward, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Kabir Barday
(Founder & Board Member)Kabir founded OneTrust in 2015 and served as the company's CEO until 2026. Previously, he spent 2 years at VMware as a Senior Product Manager and Director of Product Management.
John Heyman
(CEO & Board Member)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2026, John was the CEO at Snap One for nearly 11 years and Radiant Systems for 6 years.
Blake Brannon
(Chief Product & Strategy Officer)Blake joined OneTrust in 2017 as CTO, moving into the role of Chief Product & Strategy Officer in 2021. Prior to OneTrust, he spent nearly 10 years at AirWatch by VMware as a Global Director of Sales Engineering and as VP of Product Marketing.
Digvijay Lamba
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2025, Digvijay served as the CTO at Firebolt Ventures and Alteryx. He also founded Lore IO and served as the company's CEO for nearly 5 years.
Michael Schanker
(CMO)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2025, Michael spent over 5 years at Coupa Software in various roles, including SVP of Strategic Marketing, EVP and CMO. He was also and Advisor and Head of Growth & Marketing at Remix as well as the Head of Marketing at OpenGov Inc.
Guido Torrini
(CFO)Alongside serving as the CFO at OneTrust, Guido is also the Chief Financial & Operating Officer at DDN. Previously, he was the CFO at Celonis and Wellhub.
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