Head of Middle East

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United Arab Emirates
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
Our mission is to protect people and places in a privacy-sensitive way.
The Role
Who We Are
Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada's six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace, and intercoms — provide unparalleled building security through an integrated, cloud-based software platform. Over 33,500 organizations, including 96 companies in the Fortune 500, across 93 countries worldwide trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016 with more than $700M in funding raised to-date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role

Verkada is building a world-class sales organisation and is looking for an entrepreneurial and results-driven leader to drive our expansion into the UAE. This hands-on role is perfect for a senior sales leader who is ready to set the strategy, hire a small team, and drive sales in a start-up environment.  

What You'll Do
  • Lead the team of Account Executives in achieving individual and team quota
  • Ongoing mentoring and development of sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and mentoring new reps
  • Conduct weekly forecast meetings
  • You will be reporting on sales activity and forecast to the head of EMEA 
  • Consistently monitoring the sales activity of the team, and tracking the results
  • Quote, negotiate, and assist sales reps in closing highly complex transactions through the development of executive-level relationships with key prospects
  • Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management
  • Coordinate and lead weekly and monthly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement.
  • Work closely with channel partners to generate pipeline within UAE
  • This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration. 
What You Bring
  • Demonstrated success in directly leading, developing and coaching a high-performing sales team within a high-volume transactional sales environment
  • You must demonstrate different influencing styles as appropriate to a situation, whilst demonstrating a history of successfully building and maintaining trusting relationships with colleagues and customers
  • Proven experience in working in an indirect sales model is mandatory
  • Should be able to thrive in a very rapidly changing environment
  • Proven ability to successfully hire and train new sales representatives and coach lower performers through to success
  • Successful history of closing business, and over-achieving quota
  • Demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales results
  • Willingness to travel
  • Bilingual 
Additional Information
  • We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

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HQ: San Mateo, CA
2,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Verkada is the world’s largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform, offering a seamless blend of tech and safety. With six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace systems, and intercoms — all integrated on one cloud platform, Verkada is designed for simplicity and scalability. Our real-time insights help organizations keep their spaces safe and comfortable while taking swift action to minimize security risks, workplace hassles, and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016 and backed by over $460M in funding, we’ve grown fast, with 16 offices spread across four continents, 2,000+ employees, and 26,000+ customers in 85+ countries — including 82 of the Fortune 500.

Created by Stanford computer scientists and security experts, alongside Cisco Meraki’s co-founder and COO Hans Robertson, Verkada calls San Mateo, CA home. We also have offices in Salt Lake City, Tampa, Phoenix, Austin, London, Sydney, Taiwan, New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Mexico City, Seattle, Tokyo, and Korea.

Why Work With Us

Verkada’s products start with safety – video security cameras, door-based access control and alarms, and extend to operations, environmental sensors, visitor and mailroom management.

All of our products can be accessed within one cloud ecosystem, bringing the intuitive and easy-to-use nature of consumer security products to the levels of scale

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