Regional Vice President Middle East

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Unusual Ventures Citi Ventures and more. As AI accelerates code creation the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code testing deployments application security reliability compliance and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year Harness powered over 185M deployments 82M builds 18T flag evaluations 8M security scans 9.1B optimized tests 3T protected API calls and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend enabling customers like United Airlines Morningstar and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75% reduce cloud costs by up to 60% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Regional Vice President is a front line sales leader who will leads a team of Enterprise Account Executives. This role will be responsible for running a regional plan building out the territory developing Enterprise Account Executives within the region while implementing a strong sales methodology working complex enterprise sales cycles while focused on the Harness software and services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Meet or exceed monthly quarterly and yearly revenue targets
• Develop and execute a comprehensive regional plan
• Accelerate customer adoption
• Continually build and grow a robust sales pipeline
• Work with partners to extend reach & drive adoption
• Lead contract negotiations
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
• Ensure customer happiness and success
• Help to recruit and build west sales team
• Travel throughout predominantly the Middle East but occasionally across Europe and North America.

ABOUT YOU

• At least 3 years formal sales leadership experience building and leading high performance sales teams.
• High career trajectory and potential.
• Someone with experience in a start-up environment.
• Consistent overachievement in previous roles.
• Significant enterprise sales and strategic customer development experience.
• Experience practicing and implementing a sales methodology such as MEDDIC.
• Track record in closing large complex deals across verticals in the Fortune 500.
• History of accurate forecasting and business reporting.
• Experience in working with Salesforce and other sales oriented tracking tools.

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT HARNESS

• Competitive salary
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly quarterly and annual social and team building events
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

Work Location

• This is a hybrid role based in our Dubai UAE offer.

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
• How Harness runs 16 startups within a startup at scale Jyoti Bansal
• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.

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Required Experience:

Exec

Key Skills
Change Management,Financial Services,Growing Experience,Managed Care,Management Experience,Analysis Skills,Senior Leadership,Performance Management,Process Management,Leadership Experience,negotiation,Analytics
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1