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Are you a high-performing sales leader with a proven track record in SaaS and MarTech? Do you thrive on developing exceptional salespeople while driving enterprise growth?
We're looking for a Sales Director to lead our Sales team from our London office. You'll be responsible for driving new business across the UK and EMEA while building a high-performing sales organisation that consistently delivers against ambitious targets.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys coaching, developing people, leading complex enterprise sales, and creating a culture of high performance. If you're passionate about innovative marketing technology and sales leadership, we'd love to hear from you.
The role
As Sales Director, you will be responsible for leading Playable's Sales team and accelerating our growth across the UK and EMEA.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Account Executives, ensuring they consistently build qualified pipeline, win new customers, and deliver predictable revenue growth.
- Work closely with Marketing, Customer Success, Product and the Business Development team, you'll help shape our commercial strategy while ensuring our sales organisation operates with focus, discipline and customer centricity.
At Playable, we believe great sales leaders lead from the front. While this role does not carry an individual sales quota, you'll remain closely involved in strategic opportunities, executive customer meetings, deal coaching and commercial negotiations, helping your team succeed in complex enterprise sales cycles.
Our platform is redefining how brands engage their audiences through interactive, playable experiences. Success in this role requires someone who can challenge conventional marketing thinking, understand enterprise business priorities, and help customers realise the commercial value of innovative MarTech solutions.
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How You’ll Make an Impact
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Account Executives.
- Build a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, continuous development and consistent execution.
- Drive new business growth across the UK and wider EMEA region, with a strong focus on acquiring new enterprise customers.
- Partner closely with the Business Development team to ensure a strong flow of high-quality pipeline and seamless collaboration throughout the sales process.
- Support strategic sales opportunities by coaching deal strategy, participating in executive meetings and helping progress complex enterprise sales cycles.
- Own sales forecasting, pipeline management and performance reporting, ensuring predictable revenue growth and operational excellence.
- Work closely with Marketing to optimise inbound lead management and maximise conversion into qualified pipeline.
- Partner with Product, Customer Success and Solutions & Services to share customer insights, market feedback and commercial opportunities that strengthen our go-to-market strategy.
- Report on sales performance, pipeline health and strategic initiatives to the VP of Sales.
Your Profile
- Proven experience leading high-performing B2B SaaS sales teams, ideally within MarTech or a closely related technology sector.
- A strong track record of coaching Account Executives to consistently exceed revenue targets.
- Hands-on experience with the MEDDPICC qualification framework.
- Strong leadership and coaching skills, with a passion for developing people and building high-performing teams.
- Deep understanding of enterprise sales methodologies, complex buying processes and consultative selling.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and translate business challenges into compelling commercial solutions.
- Data-driven and highly organised, with experience in forecasting, pipeline management and sales performance reporting.
- Passionate about digital marketing, customer engagement and emerging marketing technology.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment.
- Full professional proficiency in English. Additional European languages are an advantage.
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Let’s put play to work
We’ve created a flexible SaaS platform that allows brands to integrate gamification into their marketing in all stages driving engagement.
We depend on the creativity, drive, and independent thinking of individuals, but our successes are always team efforts. That’s where you fit in. You will get the support you need to grow and thrive and will fully be part of the wider sales function across Europe. You will be joining 80+ colleagues across different teams and roles, establishing a valuable and collaborative network.
At Playable, we use the power of play to connect leading brands with consumers around the world – and change the game for ambitious marketeers everywhere. While we have grown quickly, our success is fueled by a work culture centred around what matters most to us: All the great people who make up our culture - and who make it all possible. Together, we’re here to do great work – and to have serious fun doing it. Because, every second of every day, people around the globe play our games, and we believe this is just the beginning. So, come join us and let’s put play to work.
Interested?
We will screen and interview candidates on an ongoing basis – so please, do not hesitate to apply. Keep your application short and precise. For further information and questions about the position, please contact VP of Sales, Morten Svoldgaard Axelsen.
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