About the job
MariaDB is significantly influencing the world today. From checking your bank balance to ordering takeout, MariaDB serves as the backbone for applications utilized daily. A diverse range of companies, including 75% of the Fortune 500, rely on MariaDB, impacting billions of lives. With extensive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise implementations, and public cloud services, MariaDB stands out as the premier database for modern application development.
The Opportunity
The Director of Sales - Europe will spearhead and accelerate revenue growth throughout Europe for this leading database and open-source technology firm. This executive will be tasked with creating a dynamic regional sales organization, enhancing enterprise adoption, and monetizing open-source and cloud solutions through subscriptions, support, and services.
The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in selling intricate infrastructure or data platforms, have a strong understanding of open-source business frameworks, cloud, and SaaS models, and be adept at balancing community-driven adoption with enterprise sales execution.
What You Will Do
Revenue & Growth Strategy
- Oversee the revenue generation for Europe across enterprise, commercial, and strategic accounts.
- Develop and implement a regional sales strategy aligned with open-source and cloud go-to-market models.
- Drive growth in subscriptions, support, managed services, and enterprise licensing.
- Identify expansion opportunities within existing clients and new enterprise accounts.
- Lead pricing, packaging, and contract strategies in collaboration with global leadership.
Sales Leadership & Team Building
- Build, lead, and scale a distributed sales organization across Europe (including RVPs, Sales Directors, AEs, SEs).
- Promote a culture of collaboration among Sales, Sales Engineering, and Developer Relations.
- Provide coaching to teams on selling value beyond open-source (security, scale, reliability, compliance, support).

