Head of Global SDR

Asana

As a key member of the EMEA Revenue Leadership Team reporting directly to the Head of UKI & NE, you will be the strategic leader responsible for shaping, executing, and driving all Enterprise go-to-market (GTM) activities across the United Kingdom and Ireland. You will lead a high-performing, successful regional sales team that is currently delivering strong results across our key industry verticals, including Financial Services, Public Sector, Technology/Media/Telecom (TMT), Professional Services (PS), and Retail, Manufacturing, and CPG. Partnering closely with leaders across Customer Success, Marketing, Sales Development and Channel, you will own the full-funnel GTM playbook across our  Enterprise customer segments. In this role, you will leverage your deep enterprise expertise to cultivate, nurture, and develop this high-growth revenue organization while expanding Asana's market presence throughout the region. This role is based in our London office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays & Fridays depending on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE * Build a strong community of customers, partners, and employees across the UKI region. * Develop and execute a comprehensive multi-year strategy for revenue growth and market penetration across our core industry verticals. * Partner with Customer Success to build a tailored customer coverage model that drives both revenue growth and retention across all segments. * Lead, inspire, and collaborate with sales and matrixed teams to establish and operationalize our playbook to fuel pipeline and customer growth. * Hire, nurture, and develop top sales talent, intentionally building clear career paths and succession plans. * Act as a senior executive representative for Asana with C-level customers, prospects, and media across the region. * Create strong feedback loops with the Product team to influence product evolution based on deep customer insights. * Evolve the Account Team Playbook to support enterprise growth, ensuring alignment across SDRs, Sales, Success, and Services. ABOUT YOU * People Centric leader * Proven experience managing dedicated Enterprise sales teams and successfully hitting revenue targets within an enterprise tech space. * Deep background working within the Enterprise segment, showcasing a strong understanding of complex, high-value procurement and deployment cycles. * Demonstrated experience leading and scaling high-performing Enterprise Sales teams across the UKI and EMEA regions. * Track record of navigating and capitalizing on a verticalized sales structure, with familiarity across segments such as Financial Services, Public Sector, TMT, PS, or Retail/Manufacturing/CPG. * Proven capability to scale Sales organizations and drive consistent bookings, ARR, and customer growth across commercial and enterprise segments. * Deep experience navigating and executing growth strategies within both product-led and sales-led business models. * Operationally strong with the ability to independently build robust GTM, operating, and talent development plans. * Intellectually curious, analytical, and naturally open-minded with a passion for solving complex regional challenges. * A highly collaborative partner comfortable navigating cross-functional, matrixed environments alongside Product and Marketing teams. * A low-ego leader who builds trust and influence through thoughtful communication and high-quality execution. * Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making. At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. WHAT WE’LL OFFER Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit. The total compensation for this role includes a competitive On-Target Earnings (OTE) package comprising a base salary and performance-based sales incentive pay (based on the terms of the Sales Incentive Plan). Actual base salary and OTE will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. In addition, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits. We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include: * Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits * Career coaching & support * Inclusive family building benefits * Long-term savings or retirement plans * In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role. #LI-Hybrid About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

Behavox

ABOUT BEHAVOX Behavox is a cloud-native AI company providing an integrated controls platform for global banks, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance businesses, and commodity firms. The platform unifies communications and trade surveillance, compliant archiving, policy management as well as front-office analytics on a single, AI-native technology stack, delivered as a globally scalable SaaS-based cloud service. At Behavox, our engineering culture is built around speed, experimentation, and technical excellence, following agile principles and rapid iteration. We constantly test and adopt the latest cloud technologies and AI tooling, optimising for fast feedback loops and execution. We look for people who can move fast, challenge conventional wisdom, and who want to work at the frontier of modern AI, SaaS platforms, and distributed systems. Behavox is a high-performance organisation with a strong bias toward delivery, ownership, and responsibility. We commit, and we execute. We are building systems that are complex, mission-critical, and global in scale; systems that many consider too large or too difficult. To do that, we seek the smartest, most technically capable engineers and technologists who take end-to-end responsibility and want to win by building what others cannot. Founded in 2014 and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Behavox is headquartered in London, with offices worldwide, including New York City, Montreal, Seattle, Singapore, and Tokyo. About the Role As a Marketing Events Manager 3, you will lead the strategy, planning, execution and optimisation of global third-party and company-owned events that drive pipeline growth, accelerate revenue and strengthen brand authority. Reporting to the Head of Marketing Programmes (Events), this role operates with significant autonomy and contributes directly to regional and global marketing strategy. This is not a purely executional position; it requires strong commercial judgement, cross-functional leadership and a clear focus on measurable business impact. You will own the strategic development of Behavox’s event portfolio by researching, evaluating and prioritising industry conferences and sponsorship opportunities aligned to our ideal customer profile and revenue objectives. You will build and manage annual and quarterly event roadmaps tied to pipeline targets, while forecasting and controlling budgets to ensure maximum return on investment. In addition to third-party events, you will design and scale company owned experiences, including executive roundtables, client forums and flagship gatherings. These initiatives will strengthen customer engagement, elevate brand perception and create differentiated market positioning. You will be responsible for building scalable playbooks that ensure repeatable success across regions. This role also serves as a central connector across Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Legal and Leadership. You will align messaging, coordinate activation strategies, manage vendor relationships and ensure seamless execution from pre-event planning through to post-event follow-up. Establishing clear success metrics - including meetings secured, MQLs, SQLs, pipeline influence and revenue attribution - will be critical, as will continuously analysing performance data to refine and optimise strategy. Global travel will be required as necessary to support high-impact initiatives. What You'll Bring * Global B2B event planning and execution within enterprise SaaS, fintech, or high-growth technology environments. * Revenue marketing strategy, including pipeline generation, acceleration, and attribution modelling. * Event operations management, including logistics planning, vendor oversight, and risk mitigation. * Commercial contract negotiation, budget forecasting, and financial management for multi-region initiatives. * Cross-functional stakeholder management within complex, matrixed organisations. What You'll Do * Independently plans and delivers complex global events end-to-end within a team structure, managing timelines, logistics, vendors, and stakeholders. * Develops and executes event strategies aligned to pipeline and revenue targets, ensuring measurable ROI. * Negotiates and manages event and vendor contracts while maintaining budget control and cost efficiency. * Designs and implements structured activation plans (pre-event, on-site, post-event) to maximise pipeline creation and acceleration. * Produces detailed performance reporting and post-event analysis to continuously optimise strategy and execution. What We Offer * The opportunity to work on a global, mission-critical AI platform alongside the best engineers and technologists across multiple geographies. * A role with real ownership and impact, building complex systems at scale in an environment that values speed, experimentation, and technical excellence. * A highly attractive benefits package, including competitive cash compensation, an equity award aligned with long-term value creation, and comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families. * Modern, comfortable offices, with an expectation of working from the office 2 days per week, reflecting our belief in strong in-person collaboration. * A generous time-off policy of 30 days annually, plus public holidays and sick leave, recognising the importance of sustained high performance. About Our Process We take Talent very seriously and we are building a community of extraordinary individuals working together in very high performing teams. We also know that the best Talent always has options so we believe that the process has to be a two way assessment - the company AND the candidate assessing the business needs alignment, the career next step alignment, and the cultural alignment.  During the process we will begin by exploring the core factors regarding salary and location along with core experience and skills and values alignment. We will then deep dive explore the critical technical competencies we have identified for the role, and then we will deep dive in behavioral competencies. The most aligned candidate will then be asked to do a practical work task simulation activity so we can make sure that you will enjoy the kind of work the role requires, and this task will typically be presented and discussed with a group of colleagues and managers. Finally we will ask you to meet with a number of our senior leaders to make sure that you are making the most informed call possible. Please note that: * We want to get to know you and have a genuine conversation, so the use of AI tools or assistance during live interviews is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate disqualification from the process  * Interviews may be recorded for internal review purposes to ensure fairness and enable collaborative hiring discussions within the team.

Databricks

SLSQ227R700 While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations. As Go-to-Market Leader for EMEA Financial Services, you will drive the go-to-market strategy to grow the Banking/Payments, Capital Markets and Insurance businesses. You will be the domain expert and business executive for financial services within Databricks. You will set the vision, build assets for field productivity, maintain executive relationships with customers and partners, and work with a cross-functional team across Databricks. You have a passion for how Data+AI will transform the banking industry, be familiar with unique challenges that European Financial Service Institutions (FSIs) face, and be effective at influencing decision makers across customers and partners. This job will require travel for conferences, customer and team meetings. You will report to the VP of Financial Services, Cyber Security and Sustainability GTM. The impact you will have * Own the strategy for Financial Services GTM - create growth execution plan, drive C-level relationships with customers, and drive new customers logos and revenue growth * Work with the sales and pre-sales teams to create account-level, segment-level and region-level go-to-market plans across the globe for the vertical * Work with partners to develop strategic C-level relationships with ISV and CSI partners * Identify operational gaps in each sub-segment of the GTM motion, be data-driven about quantifying business opportunities and execute improvement plans * Develop comprehensive sub-vertical sales plays with Sales Programs teams to build scalable and geographically tailored motions to drive growth in EMEA. * Act as a thought leader in the industry by authoring white-papers, speaking at events, and engaging with C-suite * Become trusted advisor to multiple stakeholders within Databricks from product, sales, pre-sales, marketing, to partner teams. * Work closely with Sales Enablement teams to boost productivity of verticalised sales and pre-sales teams * Partner with marketing to develop Financial Services content, collateral, blogs and demand generation plan * Keynote marquee industry events and plan and execute Databricks events in Financial Services * Ensure Databricks has security messaging and positioning for Financial Services What we look for * Experience working as an executive (CxO) in Banking for 10+ years. * Intimate knowledge of key global regulations in Banking/Payments, Capital Markets and Insurance industries with a particular focus on European regulations * Experience driving change at large FSI institutions both from technical and business perspective with a strong understanding of how large FSIs make decisions * Strong customer-facing presence (CXO, IT and Business Leaders), ability to cultivate executive relationships and open doors for the field * Experience working in with cross-functional resources to built-out Vertical Solutions on an existing technology platform that has generated revenue and value for the customer * Experience working with sales and technical pre-sales, building go-to-market sales kits to drive market penetration * Strong knowledge of the technology landscape in banking/payments. * Hands-on experience with program managing vertical solutions (which includes: collecting, tracking and prioritising vertical business requirements, working with technical resources to ensure timelines are met, collaborating with marketing to develop marketing assets and event planning, working with partner teams to track partner relationship progress ensuring key milestones are met) * Demonstrated ability to enable and coach sales teams on how to position technology to customers in Financial Services About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.