Regional Director, Commercial Growth

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The Opportunity

MongoDB is a true data platform with a comprehensive suite of tools to make working with data remarkably easy for everyone, from developers to analysts to data scientists. We are growing our Commercial Growth Sales Team to help our customers be more productive while still providing all the capabilities needed to meet the most complex requirements at any scale. We are looking for a leader to build and develop an all-star team of Commercial Growth sales  professionals.

We like to say, “Come to MongoDB and get your Masters in Sales” and your “Ph.D. in Leadership,” where we spend significant time on AE and leader enablement. We invest in ways to attract, hire, and develop top talent while ensuring our team is are set up for long-term success on their individual career paths.

This role will be located either Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, or Austin.

About the Role

As the Regional Director, you will drive revenue and ensure the continued successful trajectory of the territory while also focusing on recruitment, enablement, and execution for the Commercial Growth Sales Team. With a people-first culture, which is echoed throughout the whole company, managing and leading our team is top of mind. Our sales leadership is committed to building the best salesforce in technology, with a legendary reputation of excellence and integrity. This means, inspiring and enabling success for everyone on the team. We provide the opportunity for all Regional Directors to sit with their peers and collectively learn from each other about how to better develop our people, recruit, retain, and use data to get the best results for and from our people. All of us are committed to working hard to build something unparalleled in the industry.

What is Commercial Growth Sales

The Commercial Growth Team’s mission is to drive broader revenue expansion by prioritizing accounts with high potential for multi-workload adoption, proactively retaining top accounts with strong growth trajectories, and accelerating new workload contributions through strategic use case expansion.

We combine traditional top-down (Sales-Led Growth) strategies with bottom-up (Product-Led Growth) tactics. This synergy enhances conversion and maximizes customer value at every stage. By gathering product signals paired with accurate firmographic data, we can engage the right accounts at the optimal time with targeted outreach.

What you’ll be doing

• Attract, Hire, and Retain high-achieving Account Executives via all channels available (internal, external, self-sourcing)
• Drive a high-performance, high-accountability culture to achieve and exceed sales goals
• Have an in-depth and detailed understanding of MongoDB products to confidently provide mentorship for your sales team
• Enable, develop and empower your team to proactively prospect, identify, qualify, and build sales pipeline
• Coach the team to close business and to navigate complex negotiations and organizations
• Evangelize our validated sales methodology MEDDIC and drive adoption and expertise within your team
• Onboard and ramp new Account Executives and accelerate their productive capacity
• Foster strong and effective relationships, resulting in growth opportunities.
• Run weekly forecast meetings
• Scale, strategically plan, and develop sales territories

What you will bring to the table

• A minimum of 1 year of experience leading a sales team in a commercial segment (SMB / Mid Market)
• A true passion for sales & technology - we want leaders who love what they do and inspire their team
• Experience recruiting and managing a highly successful and talented direct software sales team while driving them toward success
• 5+ years of quota-carrying field experience in a fast-paced and competitive mark