Regional Sales Director, West

Posted 2 Days Ago
Be an Early Applicant
2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
400K-440K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Lead and grow the Western regional sales organization for a Kubernetes and AI infrastructure platform. Responsibilities include recruiting enterprise account executives, owning regional go-to-market strategy, driving pipeline generation and land-and-expand motions, coaching strategic deals, partnering on field events, and ensuring forecast accuracy. The role requires technical fluency with cloud-native ecosystems, executive-level communication, and experience scaling high-growth sales teams in Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, or cloud platforms.
Summary Generated by Built In

As vCluster’s Regional Sales Director, you aren’t just managing a territory; you are building the engine of a category-defining company. We have moved past the "early adopter" phase and are now the architectural standard for AI Factories and GPU-heavy enterprises. In this role, you will be the strategic architect of your region, tasked with hiring an elite team, instilling a high-octane hunting mentality, and owning the GTM strategy. You will be leading a team that sells a mission-critical platform to the world's most sophisticated Engineering, DevOps, and AI leaders.

As a Regional Sales Director, your role will include:

  • Strategic Leadership & Recruitment: Recruit, hire, and lead a regional team of Enterprise and Strategic AEs. You are responsible for their professional growth, their quotas, and building a high-performance culture from the ground up.

  • Operationalize "Land & Expand": Direct our land motion and ensure the team is positioned to capitalize on our massive NRR potential within accounts

  • Instill a Hunting Cadence: Drive a relentless focus on pipeline generation. You will set the standard for outbound excellence, ensuring your team is actively penetrating the Fortune 500 and global enterprise markets.

  • Strategic Deal Orchestration: Act as a "player-coach" on the region's largest opportunities.

  • GTM Partnership: Act as the strategic lead for regional field events and demand generation. You won’t just attend events; you will help design them to ensure they convert into high-quality pipeline.

  • Methodical Execution: Ensure the region operates with high forecast accuracy and rigor, partnering with your team to navigate complex organizations using frameworks like MEDDPICC or Command of the Message.

This role could be a fit for you if you bring:

  • Experience: 8+ years of experience in sales leadership, specifically within Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, or high-growth cloud platforms.

  • Start-Up Grit: You are a "Series A/B" builder who has successfully scaled sales teams from early stages to predictable, high-growth engines. You are comfortable building the playbook while running at 100mph.

  • Technical Gravity: You are "technically fluent" in the cloud-native ecosystem and can hold your own in a room with a CTO or Lead Platform Architect.

  • Pipeline Mentality: You believe pipeline is the lifeblood of a startup. You have a proven system for encouraging, tracking, and maintaining a relentless "hunting" culture.

  • Executive Presence: Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to operate at the C-level with our most strategic partners and global customers.

Bonus points for:

  • Ecosystem Expertise: Direct experience selling alongside Hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/GCP).

  • Domain Knowledge: A proven track record at category-defining infrastructure companies

  • Local Network: A strong existing "book of business" or a deep network of elite sales talent in your respective region.

  • AI Infrastructure Savvy: Deep understanding of how vCluster integrates in environments to solve skyrocketing GPU costs.

About vCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscaler-like experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers — managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management — enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025, we launched our Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI — a Kubernetes-native framework purpose-built for running AI, ML, and GPU-intensive workloads anywhere, with an NVIDIA-validated reference architecture for DGX systems.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits:

  • Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.

  • Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).

  • Flexible Working Schedule:  You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.

  • Workplace Flexibility:  We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Culture & Values

At vCluster Labs, we value and stand for:

  1. Make it Happen: We have a relentless bias for action and the grit to push through obstacles. We do whatever it takes to figure it out, put in the work, and ruthlessly prioritize the actions that drive measurable impact for the business.

  2. Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.

  3. Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.

  4. Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.

  5. Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of experience in sales leadership
  • Experience specifically within Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, or high-growth cloud platforms
  • Experience scaling sales teams from early-stage startups to predictable, high-growth sales engines
  • Technical fluency in the cloud-native ecosystem
  • Ability to engage with CTOs and lead platform architects
  • Proven ability to build and maintain a strong pipeline-generation and hunting culture
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills
  • Ability to operate at the C-level with strategic partners and global customers
  • Direct experience selling alongside AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Track record at category-defining infrastructure companies
  • Strong existing regional book of business or network of elite sales talent
  • Deep understanding of AI infrastructure and GPU environments
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
77 Employees

What We Do

At vCluster, we build the tools that make Kubernetes simpler, more efficient, and cost-effective. Our open-source projects enable platform engineers to streamline multi-tenancy, reduce cloud costs, and scale their Kubernetes environments with ease. With over 100 enterprises using our solutions, we’re focused on helping teams move faster, save money, and maintain stability in their platform stacks. Whether you’re managing multi-tenant clusters or optimizing resource usage, vCluster provides the building blocks to make it happen.

Similar Jobs

CrowdStrike Logo CrowdStrike

Regional Sales Director, SLED (Remote, West Coast)

Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Remote or Hybrid
5 Locations
11000 Employees
160K-215K Annually
Remote
United States
160 Employees
220K-250K Annually
Remote
United States
1300 Employees
385K-430K Annually

CIQ Logo CIQ

Regional Sales Director - West Coast

Artificial Intelligence • Software
Remote
USA
114 Employees

Similar Companies Hiring

Golden Pet Brands Thumbnail
Digital Media • eCommerce • Information Technology • Marketing Tech • Pet • Retail • Social Media
El Segundo, California
178 Employees
Kepler  Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software
New York, New York
9 Employees
Onshore Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
New York, New York
60 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account