Enterprise Sales Director at Samsara | UK Career Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This is a senior individual contributor-to-manager career milestone — a Regional Sales Director role at a recently public, high-growth IoT SaaS company (NYSE: IOT) with a genuinely fast-scaling UK enterprise business. It's a strong career move for experienced enterprise sales managers ready to step up their scope and impact.
Compensation context: While no specific salary is listed, Regional Sales Director roles at public US-listed SaaS companies in London typically command a base of £120K–£160K with OTE of £240K–£320K+ depending on team quota. Samsara explicitly commits to above-market total compensation with equity — meaningful given its NYSE listing and growth trajectory.
Skills you'll develop:
- Enterprise sales leadership at seven-figure ACV deal complexity
- Forecasting discipline and pipeline management at scale
- Multi-product platform selling across diverse UK verticals
- Coaching and developing senior enterprise AEs — a rare, high-value skill
- Scaling GTM playbooks in a high-growth public company environment
Green flags: Samsara is a public company still in a high-growth phase, which means real equity upside. The role has explicit scope to build process, not just inherit it — a strong signal for ambitious sales leaders. The team is already performing, reducing the risk of a turnaround situation.
Watch for: The emphasis on "operational rigour" and "structured cadences" alongside "builder energy" suggests a culture transition — from scrappy to scaled. Leaders who thrive here will be comfortable being both architect and operator simultaneously, which can be demanding. Ensure alignment on how much autonomy you'll have versus top-down process mandates.
Who We Are
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet — including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
Working at Samsara means you'll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you'll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
About the Role
Samsara's UK Enterprise business is one of our fastest-growing segments globally. We've scaled rapidly over the past several years — consistently outpacing the broader business — and we're now at an inflection point where we need to pair that momentum with operational rigour to sustain growth at scale.
This Regional Sales Director role is central to that next chapter. You'll lead a team of six Senior Enterprise Account Executives and Client Directors selling into some of the UK's largest and most complex organisations, spanning transportation, logistics, infrastructure, utilities, and field services.
The team is performing — but we want to turn strong results into a repeatable, scalable engine. That means bringing structure, coaching discipline, and a proven enterprise playbook without losing the pace and builder energy that got us here.
In This Role, You Will:
- Own the performance, development, and day-to-day leadership of a team of Senior Enterprise AEs, driving net new logo acquisition and expansion across a defined set of strategic UK accounts
- Coach your team through complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles where average contract values regularly reach seven figures over multi-year terms
- Build and run a structured operating rhythm — pipeline reviews, deal inspection, forecasting discipline — while getting close enough to the detail to add value at the deal level
- Develop your reps' ability to access economic buyers, build multi-threaded relationships, and position Samsara's expanding product portfolio against a customer's most critical business priorities
- Pressure-test deal qualification, challenge assumptions, and help your team navigate the complexity of selling into large UK enterprises — this isn't a role where you sit above the deals
- Build the commercial muscles — cross-sell, multi-product attach, stakeholder mapping — that will drive durable growth as we expand our footprint across the UK's largest accounts
- Partner closely with the AVP of Strategic and Enterprise Sales UK, peer RSDs, and cross-functional teams including Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team
- Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team
Minimum Requirements for the Role:
- Proven experience as a frontline or second-line sales leader in B2B enterprise technology, with direct responsibility for team quota attainment
- Track record of coaching Account Executives through complex, multi-quarter sales cycles with average deal sizes of £250K+ ACV, with experience of seven-figure ACV deals
- Experience selling into large, multi-stakeholder organisations where procurement, legal, and multiple business units are involved in the buying decision
- Demonstrated ability to build and enforce a structured sales operating cadence — pipeline generation, deal qualification, forecasting accuracy, and stage progression
- Strong commercial instinct for multi-product or platform selling, where the value proposition spans multiple use cases and buyer personas
An Ideal Candidate Also Has:
- Experience at a high-growth technology company scaling its enterprise go-to-market in the UK or EMEA — ideally where you helped build or refine the playbook rather than inheriting an established one
- A coaching-first leadership style with a track record of developing AEs from good to exceptional, not just managing top performers
- Experience managing forecast accuracy as a discipline, not just an output — particularly where leadership investment decisions depend on the reliability of your calls
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, scaling organisation where not everything is perfectly defined, and where you're expected to build process while delivering results
- A blend of strategic thinking and tactical intensity — able to set a multi-year account strategy and also jump into a deal review to identify exactly where qualification is weak
Total Rewards
At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.
Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. If you're ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here. Learn more about our rewards.
Flexible Working
At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual's ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
Belonging at Samsara
At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.
Accommodations
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