About the Role
As vCluster’s Regional Sales Director, 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.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, hire, and lead a regional team of Enterprise and Strategic AEs, responsible for their professional growth, quotas, and building a high-performance culture.
- Direct the land motion and ensure the team is positioned to capitalize on NRR potential within accounts.
- Drive a relentless focus on pipeline generation and set the standard for outbound excellence to penetrate Fortune 500 and global enterprise markets.
- Act as a "player-coach" on the region's largest opportunities.
- Act as the strategic lead for regional field events and demand generation, helping design events to convert into high-quality pipeline.
- Ensure the region operates with high forecast accuracy and rigor, partnering with the team to navigate complex organizations using frameworks like MEDDPICC or Command of the Message.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in sales leadership, specifically within Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, or high-growth cloud platforms.
- Proven experience as a "Series A/B" builder who has successfully scaled sales teams from early stages to predictable, high-growth engines.
- Comfortable building the playbook while running at 100mph.
- Technically fluent in the cloud-native ecosystem and able to engage with CTOs or Lead Platform Architects.
- Belief in pipeline as the lifeblood of a startup, with a proven system for encouraging, tracking, and maintaining a relentless "hunting" culture.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to operate at the C-level with strategic partners and global customers.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- AI infrastructure
- High-growth cloud platforms
- Sales leadership
- Team building
- Go-to-Market strategy
- Pipeline generation
- Outbound sales
- Deal orchestration
- Forecasting
- MEDDPICC
- Command of the Message
- Cloud-native ecosystem fluency
- Executive presence
- Negotiation
- Hyperscaler (AWS/Azure/GCP) sales experience
- Infrastructure technology sales
- AI infrastructure understanding
- vCluster integration knowledge
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Remote-first
Experience Level
- 8+ years of sales leadership experience
- Experience scaling sales teams from early stages
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity
- Platinum-level health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and eligible dependents
- Flexible working schedule
- Workplace flexibility
About the Company
- vCluster Labs is a venture-backed tech startup pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era.
- Raised over $30M from top-tier VCs including Khosla Ventures.
- In a hyper-growth phase.
- Headquartered in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower) with a remote-first work culture.
- The leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers and AI factories.
- Platform delivers managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management for GPU data centers.
- Enables accelerated time to value, reduced operational burden, and maximized ROI of every GPU.
- Company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021).
- Launched Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI at KubeCon North America 2025, a Kubernetes-native framework for AI, ML, and GPU-intensive workloads with an NVIDIA-validated reference architecture for DGX systems.
