Founding Sales Director - Cybersecurity Training & Education

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$140K — $160K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of enterprise B2B sales experience, particularly in new business development.
  • Substantial experience in cybersecurity training and education.
  • Proven track record in scaling early-stage companies or business units.
  • Direct sales experience to CISOs and executive buying committees.
  • Ability to create and implement repeatable sales processes for growth.
  • Experience with lengthy and complex enterprise sales cycles.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with executives to validate and refine the go-to-market strategy.
  • Gather customer insights to enhance messaging and market approach.
  • Refine customer profiles and qualification criteria through direct engagement.
  • Establish effective sales forecasting and pipeline management.
  • Develop scalable sales processes and best practices.
  • Identify and close enterprise customers within the cybersecurity education sector.
  • Build and nurture strategic relationships with key security executives.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of a growing company.
  • Possibility to build and lead a sales team from the ground up.
  • Engagement in creative problem-solving in a high-growth environment.
  • Chance to develop and implement innovative sales strategies.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

Today, CyberEd.io is entering its next stage of growth and we're looking for our first commercial leader. As founding Director of Sales, you'll partner closely with executive leadership to validate our go-to-market strategy, refine our ideal customer profile, develop repeatable sales processes, secure flagship enterprise customers, and build the commercial foundation that future sales teams will scale from.

Initially, your mission will be focused on creating pipeline, closing enterprise business, and gathering market intelligence. As the business grows, you'll transition into building and leading a high-performing enterprise sales organization.

This role is ideal for a builder who thrives in high-growth, entrepreneurial environments, enjoys creating structure from scratch, and wants to play a foundational role in shaping the future of CyberEd.io.

What You'll Do

Build the Commercial Foundation
  • Partner with executive leadership to validate and refine CyberEd.io's go-to-market strategy.
  • Gather customer feedback to continuously improve messaging, positioning, packaging, and market approach.
  • Refine ideal customer profiles, buyer personas, and qualification criteria through real customer engagement.
  • Establish forecasting, pipeline management, and sales operating rhythms.
  • Develop repeatable sales processes, playbooks, and best practices that will support future growth.


Drive Enterprise Revenue Growth

  • Identify, engage, and close new enterprise customers across CyberEd.io's portfolio of cybersecurity education and readiness solutions.
  • Build trusted relationships with CISOs, security executives, L&D leaders, GRC leaders, CIOs, and executive buying committees.
  • Own the complete enterprise sales cycle from prospecting through contract execution.
  • Develop strategic account plans focused on long-term partnerships and multi-year enterprise agreements.
  • Consistently build and manage a healthy pipeline while providing accurate forecasting.


Scale & Lead a Future Sales Organization

As CyberEd.io matures, you'll help transition the organization from founder-led selling to a scalable commercial model.
  • Hire, mentor, and lead a team of Account Executives.
  • Develop onboarding materials and sales enablement resources.
  • Create a culture focused on accountability, ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.


What We're Looking For

Required Experience
  • 8-10+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience, with a strong record of new business development.
  • Significant experience selling cybersecurity training, cybersecurity education, cyber workforce development, or closely related enterprise cybersecurity solutions.
  • Demonstrated success helping build or scale an early-stage business, startup, or new business unit.
  • Experience selling directly to CISOs, security executives, and executive buying committees.
  • Proven ability to create repeatable sales processes-not simply execute existing ones.
  • Experience navigating long, complex enterprise sales cycles.


Division CyberEd.io Department Sales & GTM Locations New York City, NY, Princeton, NJ Yearly salary $140,000 - $160,000

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