About SandboxAQ
SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
About the Role
As an Enterprise Sales Director in the Cybersecurity Group, you will be a key contributor in helping the company grow as an organization and achieve its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) targets, through driving the adoption of our security suite by leading global organizations.
Core Responsibilities
- Proactively prospect, identify, qualify and develop a sales pipeline, including expansion within existing customers and first adoption with new prospects
- Connect with decision-makers at C-level and functional levels, develop and maintain positive relationships built on trust
- Analyze the customer's context, IT environment, business goals and challenges, and help them identify where automated and integrated cryptography management can help them achieve these business goals and address challenges
- Connect with, enable and support our channel partners to generate de-multiplied sales opportunities
- Update our CRM with relevant customer and deal information every week
- Close business to meet and exceed booking objectives, engage customers on multi-year contracts
We will expect you to
- Understand the enterprise sales process for our specific cybersecurity solutions and continuously suggest improvements based on your past experience and best practices learnt;
- Interact frequently and positively with the other teams of the organization involved in business development and delivery (marketing, product, engineering, solutions) in order to streamline and improve processes at the benefit of the company and its customers;
- Commit with our Sales Engineering and Delivery teams to achieve customer satisfaction;
- Provide frequent feedback to the Product and Marketing team about customer expectations;
Qualifications we’re looking for
- 10 years of quota-carrying experience in a fast-paced, enterprise software market, with a focus on new business in the cybersecurity domain
- Demonstrated ability to articulate the value of deep enterprise technology, build business champions and run a complex sales process
- You regularly exceed your B2B ARR sales targets
- Strong interpersonal skills, outstanding verbal and written communication
- Experience with consultative sales motions and Financial Services customers
- Experience selling newly launched product lines
- Deep bench of relationships with senior infosec leaders at Fortune 500 companies
Nice to have
- Curiosity about the technology of cryptography lifecycle management, and how it creates business value
- Experience with a startup in a scaling-up stage
- First-line sales manager experience
The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $207k-$290k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.
SandboxAQ welcomes all.
We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees' personal and professional growth. Once you work with us, you can’t go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in quantum technology.
We offer competitive salaries, stock options depending on employment type, generous learning opportunities, medical/dental/vision, family planning/fertility, PTO (summer and winter breaks), financial wellness resources, 401(k) plans, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.