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Director of Sales

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Posted by Anushka Tharad
8 - 10 yrs
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Bengaluru (Bangalore)
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Sales and operations planning
Team Management
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International sales
Sales management
SaaS
Business Development

Appknox, founded in 2014, is a globally recognized mobile application security testing platform trusted by enterprises in 15+ countries. Supported by a strong team of 60+ specialists, our platform delivers deep security insights, automated testing, and continuous monitoring to organizations with critical security needs.

We’re looking for a Director of Sales to lead our enterprise revenue function across all regions - with a particular focus on accelerating growth in the US market.


What You Will Own

📌 Revenue & Pipeline

  • Own global enterprise revenue, with primary focus on the US
  • Build and maintain a predictable pipeline across inbound and outbound motions
  • Drive forecasting accuracy, deal reviews, and revenue governance
  • Improve win rates, strengthen qualification frameworks, and optimize sales velocity


📌 Team Leadership & Coaching

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing sales team (pods, SDRs, AEs)
  • Build a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous learning
  • Coach the team on enterprise selling, negotiation, and multi-stakeholder engagements
  • Set and enforce clear KPIs, performance standards, and operating rhythms


📌 GTM, Sales Enablement & Cross-Functional Strategy

  • Partner with Marketing to align top-of-funnel quality, campaigns, and messaging
  • Work with Product & Engineering to channel customer insights into roadmap decisions
  • Build and refine sales playbooks, messaging guides, qualification models (MEDDIC/BANT), competitive frameworks, and objection handling
  • Strengthen sales enablement - onboarding, continuous training, competitive intelligence, content readiness, and deal support
  • Collaborate with SalesOps on Hubspot CRM hygiene, reporting accuracy, forecasting discipline, and tooling
  • Ensure seamless alignment across Sales, CS, Product, and Marketing


📌 Operational Excellence

  • Implement best-in-class sales processes and governance
  • Improve sales efficiency across the funnel through data, insights, and process optimization
  • Introduce mechanisms to increase accountability, speed of execution, and deal quality
  • Establish a predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales engine


What We're Looking For

📌 Experience & Leadership

  • 8 - 10 years in B2B SaaS or enterprise tech sales
  • Minimum 2 - 3 years leading and scaling sales teams
  • Demonstrated ability to drive $5M+ annual enterprise revenue (preferably $10M+)
  • Experience managing both inbound and outbound sales motions
  • Strong exposure to US enterprise sales cycles - mandatory


📌 Industry & Deal Expertise

  • Deep experience in enterprise sales - mandatory
  • Background in cybersecurity, deep tech, or complex technical products is preferred
  • Experience with VAR, multi-product, or consultative enterprise sales is a plus


📌 Geography & Market Exposure

  • Must be based in Bangalore (or willing to relocate)
  • Comfortable leading revenue across global regions, with US as primary focus


Who You Are

  • A strategic operator with strong bias for execution
  • Exceptional coach and people leader
  • Data-driven, structured, and strong on process
  • Skilled communicator with executive presence
  • Thrives in high-growth, high-accountability environments
  • Comfortable influencing cross-functionally and navigating enterprise complexity


Compensation

  • As per Industry Standards


Why Join Us

  • Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
  • Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
  • Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
  • Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
  • Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.
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About Appknox

Founded :
2014
Type :
Product
Size :
20-100
Stage :
Profitable

About

Appknox, a leading mobile app security solution HQ in Singapore & Bangalore was founded by Harshit Agarwal and Subho Halder.


Since its inception, Appknox has become one of the go-to security solutions with the most powerful plug-and-play security platform, enabling security researchers, developers, and enterprises to build safe and secure mobile ecosystems using a system-plus human approach.


Appknox offers VA+PT solutions ( Vulnerability Assessment + Penetration Testing ) that provide end-to-end mobile application security and testing strategies to Fortune 500, SMB and Large Enterprises Globally helping businesses and mobile developers make their mobile apps more secure, thus not only enhancing protection for their customers but also for their own brand. 


During the course of 9 years, Appknox has scaled up to work with some major brands in India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, and the US and has also successfully enabled some of the top government agencies with its On-Premise deployments & compliance testing. Appknox helps 500+ Enterprises which includes 20+ Fortune 1000 and ministries/regulators across 10+ countries and some of the top banks across 20+ countries.


A champion of Value SaaS, with its customer and security-first approach Appknox has won many awards and recognitions from G2, and Gartner and is one of the top mobile app security vendors in its 2021 Application security Hype Cycle report. 


Our forward-leaning, pioneering spirit is backed by SeedPlus, JFDI Asia, Microsoft Ventures, and Cisco Launchpad and a legacy of expertise that began at the dawn of 2014.

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