Director, Pre-Sales, EMEA

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely worldwide. The Director of Pre-Sales will lead Pre-Sales Solution Architects in the EMEA region, providing technical sales, account planning, and strategy. The ideal candidate will be an accomplished people manager, a geospatial expert with strong business acumen, and possess proven experience scaling high-performing technical teams.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience managing a successful technical sales team
• 8+ years of experience working in software or technical sales
• Solid technical fluency with system architectures, cloud environments, complex data pipelines, and technical proposal writing
• Ability to effectively engage customers at the executive level to clearly articulate technical complexity and strategic business value
• Consultative selling experience with a proven track record of success
• Customer centric and data-driven, able to turn insights into meaningful actions
• Excellent human skills: organizer and prioritizer, problem-solver, assertive and proactive, curious and adaptable, communicator and presenter
• Ability to partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales leadership

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off