Role

Due to our expansive growth we are seeking an exceptional leader to join our team as Head of Observability for Asia coverings ASEAN, India, HK, Taiwan, China and Korea. In addition to passion, skills, and experience, you will have a proven track record in selling enterprise SaaS solutions, experience in successfully developing go to market strategies, driven thought leadership on observability practices and leading across a matrixed sales structure.

What We Offer You:

An opportunity to drive significant shareholder, customer, and employee value.
A fast-growing and rapidly changing business and market where you will be challenged and grow.
Hardworking and dedicated peers across all GTM and Corporate functions.
The opportunity to hire, develop, and inspire the right team to drive growth and make a massive impact on our business
The ability to shape strategy, planning, and execution, impacting how we are viewed in the market and by our customers.
Personal and Professional Growth - we believe in growing our leaders through ownership, new experiences, and formal and informal education.
An open, encouraging, and collaborative work environment.

Responsibilities:

Recruit, onboard, coach and retain an all-star advisory team, while pairing business and revenue objectives with appropriate growth initiatives.
Develop and coach a specialist team of expert advisors to meet the highest standards of go-to-market strategies, pipeline generation initiatives and success.
Consistently support achievement of revenue targets – ensuring company revenue goals, and objectives are achieved quarter over quarter and year over year.
Direct sales activities, prioritize efforts, and hold the team accountable for building pipeline and executing each phase of the sales cycle.
Support a structured MEDDPICC process with deal management.
Coach and mentor sales team to uncover customer needs, develop champions, present specific use cases, demonstrate the differentiated value of Splunk products and services, and negotiate favorable pricing and terms by selling value and return on investment.
Work as a team for the most efficient use and deployment of resources; collaborate with sales engineering, channels/alliances, professional services, product, legal, marketing, and engineering teams to create a seamless customer experience.
Use CRM systems (Salesforce) extensively.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience building and leading specialist sales teams; building scalable go-to-market strategies, ability to grow and scale upward with the company; second line management experience a plus.
5+ yrs experience successfully selling SaaS and/or subscription-based software as an individual contributor is required.
In-depth knowledge of the monitoring space, microservices, and AWS/GCP/Azure (preferred).
Track record of consistently meeting/exceeding sales quotas personally and as a sales leader.
Excellent leadership and influencing skills; ability to build strong business partnerships both outside, and within the organization.
Skilled at business planning and diligent at measuring and communicating progress towards the plan, identifying roadblocks, and coming up with appropriate solutions.
Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques; knowledge of MEDDPICC and Challenger methodologies is a plus
Highly professional persona and polished demeanor, with strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills; effective at delivering executive level presentations.
Success adapting in fast-growing and changing environments
You are an effective communicator and inspiring leader, your team's success is your motivation, you love to coach and have impeccable leadership skills; people want to follow you!
Bachelor's degree; MBA a plus

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

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