Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales
Senior Manager leading a team of Enterprise Account Executives at Drata. Responsible for exceeding sales targets, building high-performance culture with account-based and multi-threaded strategies, driving strategic initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and coaching reps on complex enterprise deals. Requires 10+ years quota-carrying sales experience and 5+ years managing enterprise sales teams in high-growth SaaS.
About the job
What you’ll do
Drive High-Performance Sales Execution
- Achieve and consistently exceed sales targets through exceptional team leadership and selective individual contributions.
- Build a culture of account-based execution excellence, ensuring multi-threading rigor, clear activity expectations, and consistent accountability across the team.
- Implement and maintain high-quality forecasting discipline, ensuring predictability and transparency into pipeline health and revenue expectations.
- Drive improvements in ACVs, win rates, sales cycle efficiency, and ramp time through coaching, enablement alignment, and process discipline.
Own Strategic Initiatives Across the Business
- Proactively identify, define, and drive strategic initiatives that improve productivity, sales execution, segment performance, or how the org scales.
- Serve as a key partner to Marketing, Product, RevOps, Enablement, and Solutions Engineering, ensuring tight alignment on GTM motions and surfacing customer and market insights.
- Influence product roadmap, messaging, and market strategy by contributing meaningful, pattern-based feedback from the field.
- Act as a cross-functional liaison to prioritize initiatives that impact win rates, deal velocity, and the enterprise customer decision process.
Lead with a Senior-Level Mindset
- Operate as a thought leader within the Enterprise program, shaping how the segment scales and proactively identifying risks and opportunities before they surface.
- Step up—without being asked—to solve ambiguous problems, bring clarity to the team, and deliver high-impact work that moves the business forward.
- Demonstrate executive presence in internal forums, customer and prospect conversations, and leadership discussions—representing the Enterprise segment credibly at the highest levels.
- Bring forward actionable market and account-level observations, and recommend clear next steps that help the business scale responsibly and efficiently.
Coach, Develop, and Performance Manage
- Set clear expectations for account-based execution, multi-threading, deal hygiene, and enterprise sales fundamentals.
- Hold the team accountable to activity, impact, and results, driving a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Implement structured, data-informed performance management to elevate or exit reps based on consistent trends, not lagging indicators.
- Mentor AEs to become exceptional operators—improving qualification rigor, account and territory planning, and executive engagement strategy.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years leading quota-carrying enterprise/strategic sales teams, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
- 10+ years in quota-carrying sales roles, with a track record of consistently exceeding targets in complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling enterprise sales motions — including account planning, territory design, and multi-threaded engagement strategies with large organizations.
- Experience coaching reps on navigating long, complex sales cycles: multi-stakeholder buying committees, procurement, legal, and executive-level negotiations.
- Strong analytical and strategic skill set, with experience in forecasting accuracy, account segmentation, and identifying levers to improve win rates and deal velocity at the enterprise level.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional partners (Marketing, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Legal) and drive alignment on enterprise go-to-market strategy.
- High executive presence with the ability to engage and build trust with C-suite and senior buyer personas, both directly and in support of the team.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to lead teams through organizational change, market shifts, or evolving go-to-market strategy.
- A track record of strong performance management, mentorship, and developing sellers capable of running strategic, high-value deal cycles.
- Ability to operate independently, think strategically about account and territory strategy, and contribute to broader go-to-market planning as the business scales.
How we support you
- Shared Success: stock equity.
- Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services.
- Financial Well-being: 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, discounted voluntary offerings.
- Family Support: paid Parental Leave policy.
Skills
Enterprise Sales, Account-Based Execution, Multi-Threading, Sales Forecasting, Account Planning, Territory Design, Sales Coaching, Performance Management, Go-to-Market Strategy, Cross-Functional Alignment, Executive Presence, B2B SaaS Sales
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