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Director, Sales - Public Sector

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New Relic

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United States , Arlington

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392000.00 - 490000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

New Relic is looking to add a key member to our Sales leadership team! The Senior Director of Public Sector is responsible for all aspects of our government focused sales organization in the US, including revenue and customer growth, recruiting and leading a diverse team, delivering scalable consumption based sales motions and identifying and engaging key partnerships.

Job Responsibility:

  • Create and deliver a Public Sector - Federal and SLED - strategic sales plan
  • Achieve client-specific revenue and growth targets, align sales activities to achieve quarterly and annual revenue targets
  • Own the relationship within all public sector clients across objectives, opportunities, power map strategies, concerns and barriers
  • Identify new business opportunities, develop new senior level relationships, nurture and grow existing business
  • Lead the growth plan and drive New Relic’s position with key public sector entities and agencies
  • Ability to travel regularly
  • Meet and exceed consumption sales goals
  • Engage with customer executives as a New Relic Sponsor on top accounts/opportunities
  • Forecast all Key Performance Indicators of consumption
  • Lead cross functional strategies for revenue and adoption
  • Successfully recruit, mentor and develop a high performing sales organization
  • Input and design compensation strategies
  • Engage and coach AE’s on executive engagement and sales capability
  • Maintain strong operational hygiene and integrity
  • Implement consistent MEDDPPIC and CoM methodology for effective opportunity management
  • Build Individual professional development plans for team members
  • Inspire and lead career growth for team members
  • Improve the scalability, efficiency and effectiveness of our sales team
  • Communicate proactively with customers and internally within your team, handle risks and issues and raising upwards as needed
  • Partner with pre-sales, marketing, channels, sales ops to identify revenue opportunities and drive revenue and customer satisfaction

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 10 years experience in enterprise software sales
  • 8+ years experience in sales management with a minimum of four in second line management
  • 10+ years of progressively responsible experience within the Government and Education technology sales arenas
  • Proven track record of sales success in government agency/public sector
  • Demonstrable success driving large US Federal Government and State Local Government program capture
  • Thorough understanding of US Federal Government procurement processes and contract vehicles is required
  • Uses advanced US Federal Government domain / solutions knowledge to competitive advantage
  • has strong knowledge of government technology standards, security protocols and the regulations impacting the sale of technology solutions to the Federal Government
  • Great ability to recruit, cultivate and motivate high performing sales teams
  • Success in small/fast-growing company environments
  • Tremendous record of consistently achieving sales targets
  • Demonstrated understanding of strategic sales techniques in a high transaction environment in enterprise software
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice to have:

  • Direct experience in observability strongly preferred
  • MBA preferred
What we offer:
  • Healthcare
  • dental
  • vision
  • parental leave and planning
  • mental health benefits
  • a 401(k) plan and match
  • flex time-off
  • 11 paid holidays
  • volunteer time off

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 10, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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