
Manager, Sales Development (EMEA)
Overview
As the Manager of Sales Development, you will lead and mentor a team of BDRs responsible for both inbound lead qualification as well as outbound opportunity generation.
Job Description
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains. Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default. Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.
Responsibilities
- - Continue to build out our growing BDR function, working with recruiting to identify top talent to hire and onboard
- - Develop your team’s skills for outbound prospecting, qualifying, and opportunity creation
- - Provide ongoing feedback and coaching in recurring weekly 1:1s to ensure BDR team members develop skills and performance over time
- - Work closely with the Demand Generation team to provide feedback on MQLs and campaigns
- - Work closely with the Sales team to improve outbounding strategies and qualification processes while also tackling other areas of improvement
- - Work in collaboration with Marketing/Sales/Product to develop effective messaging to outbound into target accounts and convert inbound interest into qualified pipeline
- - Work closely with Sales leadership to ensure alignment on your team's strategy and execution on account coverage, target personas, opportunity quality and BDR to AE hand-off
- - Accurately forecast weekly, monthly, and quarterly attainment
- - Closely monitor team performance metrics and KPIs with the goal to increase BDR productivity
Required Skills
- - 2+ years leading a team of BDRs (Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Infrastructure, OSS strongly preferred)
- - Experience with funnel management across multiple channels and focuses (inbound, outbound, upsell, new business)
- - Hands on enablement experience in onboarding, ramping, and developing your team
- - Experience with sales and marketing tools, including CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot), lead generation software, and productivity tools
- - Strong analytical skills and ability to make data driven decisions
- - Proven ability to effectively recruit, hire, and train new people
- - Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment
- - Aptitude for identifying challenges and developing creative solutions to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness
- - Experience prospecting or selling into Enterprise accounts
- - Understanding of B2B software, Open Source software, and the developer product space is preferred
- - Experience growing within a small start-up is preferred
Benefits
- - Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
- - Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options
- - 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents
- - ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset
- - 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year
About the company
Chainguard believes engineering teams should move at the speed of innovation with confidence that every line of code is secure. The company protects open source software from what can go wrong, enabling teams to focus on building what matters. Securing the open source supply chain is Chainguard’s mission. Teams are often told they must choose between speed, security, and scalability when building on open source—achieving all three is seen as impossible. Chainguard’s co-founders rejected that trade-off. With decades of experience building foundational projects like Kubernetes, Sigstore, and Distroless, they recognized that these priorities are not in conflict but part of the same system.
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