Regional Director of Strategic Sales, Chainguard
East
+ Equity/stock options
Travel as needed
Software supply chain security company
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Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity/stock options
Travel as needed
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years experience selling a technical product; open source, DevOps or security experience preferred
- 3+ years experience successfully managing high performing software sales teams
- Proven track record of meeting and exceeding performance objectives (revenue targets, pipeline targets, etc.)
- Experience selling to Fortune500 and a willingness to roll up your sleeves
- Experience using CRM and marketing automation systems
- Ability to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity and creativity to changing needs and situations; ability to handle a fast-paced environment and challenging workload
- Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
- Experience going through a growth or hyper-growth stage
- Ability to travel as needed
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Director of Sales to join our rapidly growing team and build and manage a team of Strategic Account Executives
- Report directly to the RVP of Strategic Sales and hire/manage a team of Strategic Account Executives
- Drives, manages and executes the business and revenue of their sales team
- Build a collaborative environment where your team can thrive, learn and grow
- Build and improve processes for AE onboarding and ramping
- Prepares forecasts, territory/industry management and growth plans
- Establishes and reports on metrics to measure team performance
- Drive alignment with supporting teams across marketing, customer success, BDR, sales engineering and customer engineering
- Set the strategy for Chainguard’s largest accounts
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.
Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2024
$140m
SERIES C
Nov 2023
$61m
SERIES B
Total funding: $256m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company values
- Fun. Everything goes easier when we’re having fun! We do serious work, but we try not to take ourselves too seriously
- We have a Bias for Action. We’re a startup and we need to move fast. Speed is our friend!
- We are Customer Obsessed. We intently listen to their needs and value their feedback
- Open Source Excellence is key. OSS is a component of every software supply chain, and OSS is required to improve supply chain security
- Trust and Reputation. This one has two parts! We’re a security company, and our reputation is critical. Also, we hire great team members and trust them to do their work. We’re transparent with data, news, and decisions, to empower our team members to make the correct decisions
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Articles
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(Head of Product & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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