Major Territory Manager - West

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Austin, TX, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Security • Software
Sonar is the trust & verification layer for AI and agentic coding, and the industry standard for automated code review.
The Role
The Major Territory Manager will drive sales within key accounts, manage customer relationships, and lead upselling and cross-selling initiatives for Sonar's software solutions.
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Who is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, Mastercard, NASA, Deutsche Bank, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

  • SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.

  • SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.

  • SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:

  • Committed to our customers and community.

  • Obsessed with quality.

  • Deliberate in our decisions.

  • Effective as one team.

With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.


Position description
 
Use your problem-solving abilities and customer focus to evangelize the code quality management philosophy embraced by over 400,000 organizations. Utilize your proven sales skills to highlight product value, drive adoptions, and significantly expand our customer base.
 
Engage with developers, decision-makers, and procurement in diverse industries and company sizes. Seize this opportunity to directly influence the direction and processes of our Sales Team and organization as we grow. This is your chance to drive sales success and impact our upward trajectory!

What you will do

  • Generate new leads and opportunities within an assigned account set, representing our largest and most strategic existing customer base at Sonar via upselling and cross-selling.
  • Ensure that minimum requirements are established, managed and maintained with customers, such as quarterly business reviews.
  • Onboard customers throughout their entire journey with SonarSource commercial products.
  • Develop relationships with champions within existing customer accounts.
  • Size and quote customer software license needs.
  • Negotiate and close upgrades to existing implementations.
  • Interact with customers over phone, email, video conference, and on-site meetings when necessary.
  • Support marketing efforts with account-based customer-focused marketing campaigns.
  • Pro-actively engage in building, growing and sharing sales team best practices.
  • Accurately capture and report all aspects of account and opportunity information within the SFDC platform.
  • Utilize Salesforce.com to set daily activity and accurately forecast opportunity pipeline.

Experience and qualifications

  • Proven successful 5+ years of experience in a B2B sales role, ideally in a SaaS or subscription model. 
  • Focus on building and managing customer relationships. 
  • Experience selling a technical product to a technical buyer.
  • Proven expertise in account planning and prospecting, using various channels and tools for prospecting, such as Zoominfo, LinkedIn, calling and networking.
  • Expertise in navigating and growing a pipeline in existing customer accounts and taking a deal from Lead Qualification to Closed Won.
  • Familiarity in supporting and selling to large enterprise customers and managing and negotiating larger (>100kUSD) enterprise deals.
  • Ability to drive the sales process effectively through phone calls, emails, and virtual and on-site meetings.
  • Proficiency in communicating with executive-level contacts and delivering value messages based on the persona you are engaging with (bottom/up and top/down approach)
  • Salesforce.com lover; you know it and can’t imagine sales without it.
  • Customer-Centric focus; We Want Happy Customers.
  • Written and spoken English at a professional level. 

Benefits

  • Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.

  • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 25 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.

  • We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.

  • Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.

  • Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.

  • We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

  • Monthly catered events, and team events

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date. 

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. 

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
800 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era, ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust. Today, AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster, safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification. Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube), Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure, reliable, and maintainable. As an independent verification platform, Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide, including ServiceNow, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company. Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Bochum, Germany; London, Singapore, and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees! Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company, with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.

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Sonar Offices

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
HQAustin, TX office
Geneva Office (HQ)
Annecy Office
Bochum Office
London Office
Singapore Office
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