Regional Sales Director

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Lead the UK sales team to scale Sona's sales in social care and hospitality, define sales execution standards, and contribute to a repeatable playbook in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

3 billion people across the world work in frontline jobs. Yet, despite rising costs and staff shortages, frontline organisations are still left to choose between paper, Excel, and WhatsApp, or decade-old workforce management solutions to take care of the most important part of their businesses - their people.

Enter Sona: the next generation of AI-native, frontline workforce management. We’ve built an end-to-end platform covering Scheduling, HR, Payroll, and Communications that gives the largest frontline organisations everything they need to staff more intelligently and empower their teams.

In 4 years, we’ve already made a deep impact on the lives of over 100k frontline workers and the operation of their organisations, grown the team to 120+, and secured over $50M in funding from notable VC’s, including Felicis, Northzone, Gradient Ventures (Google), SpeedInvest, Antler, and Notion Capital, plus notable angels like Tom Blomfield (Monzo).

It’s a hugely exciting time to be joining the team as we’re still small enough that you’ll have a significant impact on the company’s growth trajectory and culture, yet large enough to have a great structure, experienced leaders and world-class benefits in place. More on working at Sona here.

About the Role

As our new Regional Sales Director, you’ll lead half of our UK sales team and play a pivotal role in scaling how Sona sells across our core frontline industries: Social Care and Hospitality.

You’ll define what great sales execution looks like in a fast-growing, AI-native SaaS company with a market-leading, must-have product. You’ll own performance and coaching for a talented pod of AEs and help sharpen the processes and Playbook that help us consistently win new business.

Responsibilities 

  • Coach and lead a pod of mid-market AEs (£50k-250k ACV) to sustained high performance, enabling ramp‑stage reps to reach full attainment and driving increasing average deal size among seasoned reps

  • Contribute to a repeatable Sales Playbook tailored to buyers in our core markets that can be adopted in other verticals

  • Run weekly reviews and deal-level support sessions, ensuring rigorous forecasting and sales discipline via MEDDPICC methodology

  • Partner with RevOps and Sales leadership to assess expansion opportunities, build go‑to‑market plans and execute new team launches

  • Own team recruitment, onboarding, culture building and performance management to maintain a high-performing sales organisation

  • Drive a customer-first, data‑driven culture, identifying funnel drop‑off points and optimising conversions at every stage

 

Requirements

  • Experience in frontline SaaS sales leadership with with clear evidence of building consistent quota coverage across a team

  • A background as a quota‑bearing AE

  • MEDDPICC fluency is a must; you can coach others in its application

  • Comfortable working in quarterly‑quota selling cycles and net‑new logo environments

  • Process and data-driven, detail-oriented - able to diagnose issues from funnel data and drive improvement

  • You thrive in startups with fast-paced, ambiguous environments that require resilience and resourcefulness

  • Bonus: background in Force Management / Command of the Message frameworks; experience recruiting high-quality SDRs/BDRs

 

Benefits

  • Salary: £115-130k + double OTE (uncapped)

  • Hybrid working with 3 days/week in our London office (Soho)

  • Share options

  • 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days) 

  • Extra day of leave for every year of service

  • Pension contributions matched up to 5%

  • Comprehensive health insurance

  • Enhanced parental leave & pay

  • Co-working space stipend for those based outside London

  • Bi-annual all expenses paid team retreats

  • The latest Macbook and equipment budget for your home office

  • Professional development budget

  • Unlimited free books

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive health insurance
  • Unlimited free books: Unlimited free books
  • Paid Time Off: 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
Salary
£115,000 – £130,000 per year
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