Descript is redefining how teams create, collaborate, and communicate with video and audio. As we scale and accelerate adoption across the enterprise, we are seeking an exceptional Sales Director for the US to lead this next chapter of growth.

This is a rare opportunity to build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of Account Executives as they partner with some of the world’s most innovative companies,helping them transform how they produce content with AI-powered workflows.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Build, lead, and coach a US-based team of Enterprise Account Executives focused on landing and expanding high-value customers.

• Set clear expectations, operating rhythms, and performance standards to consistently deliver and exceed ARR targets.

• Cultivate a high-trust, high-accountability environment where top performers can do the best work of their careers.

Sales Strategy & Execution

• Own pipeline health for your segment, ensuring predictable future revenue through rigorous qualification, forecasting, and deal inspection.

• Drive a strong outbound and pipeline-generation culture; ensure every rep has mastery of PG fundamentals and takes ownership of top-of-funnel creation.

• Refine and implement strategic account plans to deepen executive-level engagement, unlock new use cases, and accelerate expansion.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to align on messaging, customer outcomes, lifecycle strategies, and enterprise motion efficiency.

• Provide structured feedback to GTM and Product leadership,grounded in customer insights,to influence roadmap and narrative development.

Talent Acquisition & Development

• Proactively recruit, nurture, and hire exceptional enterprise sales talent; all leaders at Descript are expected to build strong recruiting pipelines.

• Develop a repeatable operating model for onboarding, training, and coaching to ensure long-term rep success and rapid productivity.

What you bring

• Extensive experience leading enterprise sales teams with quotas and a track record of landing and expanding complex accounts.

• Deep expertise in pipeline generation, outbound sales motions, and building rigorous sales operating cadences.

• Experience with value-driven, methodological sales processes (e.g., MEDDPICC, Command of the Message).

• A strong history of proactively recruiting, headhunting, and developing top-performing SaaS sellers.

• Successful prior experience as a top-performing Enterprise AE before moving into leadership.

• Experience in high-growth B2B SaaS environments, and a passion for the pace, ambiguity, and opportunity that come with scale.

• Superior organization, prioritization, and time management skills.

The base salary range for this role is $180,000-$240,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.

About Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio , an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).

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We are seeking an exceptional Regional Director of Sales for the US to drive this. This is a rare opportunity to grow, lead and shape a world-class team of Account Executives as they partner with some of the largest and most influential companies on the planet, driving transformative growth and innovation with AI.

As a key architect of our scaling journey, you will help us build the most elite GTM organisation in SaaS. You will bring an unwavering commitment to excellence in recruiting, coaching, and empowering high-performing Account Executives to excel in landing and expanding global strategic accounts. Your leadership will inspire a culture of innovation, discipline, and continuous growth, ensuring mastery of pipeline generation, fundamentals and deal execution at every level.

At Synthesia, we are creating an environment where the most ambitious leaders and Account Executives can achieve their highest potential and do the most impactful work of their careers. If you’re ready to shape the future of SaaS and leave an indelible mark on the gen-AI industry, we can’t wait to welcome you as a driving force in our journey.

Responsibilities:

• Grow and lead a US based Global Strategic Accounts team who drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through landing and expanding our highest value customers (10,000+ employees).

• Become responsible for ensuring a robust pipeline of sales opportunities is being delivered by the US Global Accounts team, ensuring confidence in future revenue.

• Proactively recruiting elite talent - all our leaders are expected to build their own candidate pipelines.

• Using your experience, refine and implement a comprehensive account strategy to nurture existing relationships with key accounts and expand reach to a more executive audience.

• Driving a Pipeline-Generation (PG) culture where everyone is responsible for outbound.

• Collaborate closely with the Marketing and Customer Success leaders to ensure alignment between the commercial aspects of the business, maximizing customer satisfaction and engagement.

Requirements:

• Whilst we're open to the location of this person (in EST or CST) you must be willing to travel to NYC HQ when required + customer travel.

• You'll need a wealth of leadership experience where you've been responsible for the team landing and expanding enterprise or strategic accounts with quotas of $1m+ each.

• Experience managing teams in heavy outbound/sales-led organisations; you have operational excellence and rigour around pipeline generation (PG).

• Experience in reputable, value-driven, methodological sales environments, ideally using MEDDPICC & Command of the Message.

• You’ve proactively recruited and built winning teams before - bonus points if you’ve headhunted reps yourself, as you’ll be expected to PG here!

• Extensive experience in B2B SaaS sales winning new business and expanding existing accounts - before you became a manager, you had your own successful SaaS sales career.

• You've experienced rapid growth & understand the opportunities and challenges that can bring - and you thrive in it!

• Superior process and time-management skills.

Preferred:

• Your experience is with transformatory SaaS products that are sold across lines of business and use-cases.

• You're based in New York City or Austin.

Salary: We aim to be competitive based on location, 50/50 split + share options.

Our culture

At Synthesia, we expect everyone to

• Put the Customer First

• Own it & Go Direct

• Be Fast & Experimental

• Make the Journey Fun

Benefits

• A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series D startup

• Hybrid working environment

• 100% Medical, Dental & Vision

• 401k Plan

• Paid parental leave

• 25 days of annual leave + Public holidays + paid sick leave

• Fun culture with regular socials

• A generous referral scheme

• A brand new computer + monitor

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Synthesia is seeking an experienced Regional Director of Strategic Sales to lead the team responsible for landing and expanding our largest customers (10k+ employees). In this role, you will recruit and develop a team of world-class sellers, drive excellence across PG and MEDDPICC, and define how we land and grow within the world's largest and most complex organisations.

What you'll be doing...

• Lead our EMEA-based UK/I Accounts team to drive predictable Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by landing and expanding Synthesia's highest-value customers (10k+ employees).

• Own pipeline quality and rigour, ensuring the team builds a robust, data-backed pipeline that creates confidence in future revenue and supports accurate forecasting.

• Refine and execute a comprehensive account strategy, leveraging your experience to deepen relationships within key accounts, elevate our reach to the executive level, and accelerate expansion motions.

• Partner with Talent Acquisition to hire and develop a world-class team, ensuring we attract top-tier, MEDDPICC-savvy sellers.

• Shape a high-performance culture where senior sellers are coached, empowered, and given a clear path to thrive and grow at Synthesia.

• Champion a Pipeline Generation (PG) mindset, reinforcing that outbound is a shared responsibility and a core competitive advantage.

• Work cross-functionally with Marketing and Customer Success to drive seamless alignment across the commercial organisation, maximising customer satisfaction, engagement, and long-term value.

• Continuously enhance our sales playbooks, embedding best practices, process improvements, and MEDDPICC methodologies that elevate the consistency and effectiveness of the entire sales function.

Requirements

• You're a true first-line leader at heart - motivated, hands-on, and passionate about coaching teams to success every day.

• You've recruited senior sellers who have thrived (recruiting is the number 1 priority of every GTM leader at Synthesia).

• Proven track record managing senior sellers carrying $1M+ quotas, who consistently win and grow large, complex organisations (10k+ employees).

• You've sold across lines of business, not just IT. We're particularly excited if you've sold to CROs.

• Experience in value-driven, methodological, playbook sales environments, with formal adoption of MEDDPICC and Command of the Message.

• Experience navigating rapid-growth environments, embracing both the opportunities and the challenges - and thriving through them.

• Executive presence with outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling you to influence stakeholders at every level.

Our culture

At Synthesia, we're passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.

Benefits

• A hybrid setting where you can work from our London office.

• Paid parental leave entitles primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.

• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays.

• Cycle to work scheme (London).

• Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis), including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.

• A generous referral scheme if you help us hire.

• Pension contribution/salary sacrifice.

• Work from home set up.

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Location

New York City; Austin

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

CommercialLeadership

Synthesia is the world's leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.

As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the centre of successful organisations.

Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

About the role…

As we build a new category, we're redefining the future of SaaS sales. We're now seeking an exceptional Senior Regional Manager of Sales to lead and scale our Mid-Market segment.

This is a rare opportunity to build and shape a high-velocity, high-performance team of Account Executives focused on companies typically ranging from ~100–1,000 employees. You'll play a critical role in driving new logo acquisition while building a strong land-and-expand motion across a broad and diverse customer base.

As a key leader in our scaling journey, you will:

• Build and lead a US-based Mid-Market team responsible for driving ARR through new business and expansion within existing accounts.

• Establish excellence in pipeline generation, sales fundamentals, and disciplined deal execution.

• Create a performance culture rooted in accountability, outbound rigor, and operational precision.

• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, RevOps, and Customer Success to ensure strong lead flow, smooth handoffs, and expansion success.

At Synthesia, we're building an environment where ambitious leaders can do the most impactful work of their careers. If you're energized by building teams, driving velocity, and scaling repeatable systems, we'd love to meet you.

What you'll be doing…

• Lead and grow a US-based Mid-Market team focused on driving ARR across companies in the 100–1,000 employee range.

• Drive a strong pipeline generation culture where outbound is a shared responsibility.

• Coach AEs on discovery depth, deal qualification (MEDDPICC), and multi-threading across lines of business.

• Balance velocity with deal quality–ensuring predictable forecasting and strong conversion metrics.

• Proactively recruit top Mid-Market talent and build a strong bench.

• Refine segmentation, territory design, and playbooks to support repeatable scale.

• Partner closely with Marketing and Customer Success to drive new logo acquisition and structured expansion.

We'd love to hear from you if you have…

• Proven leadership experience managing Mid-Market SaaS sales teams.

• Experience managing teams in heavy outbound/sales-led organisations; you have operational excellence and rigour around pipeline generation (PG).

• Experience in reputable, value-driven, methodological sales environments, ideally using MEDDPICC & Command of the Message.

• You've proactively recruited and built winning teams before - bonus points if you've headhunted reps yourself, as you'll be expected to PG here!

• Extensive experience in B2B SaaS sales winning new business and expanding existing accounts - before you became a manager, you had your own successful SaaS sales career.

• You've experienced rapid growth & understand the opportunities and challenges that can bring - and you thrive in it!

• Superior process and time-management skills.

Location: New York City or Austin. Willingness to travel to NYC HQ and customer sites as needed.

We'd be particularly excited if...

• Your experience is with transformatory SaaS products that are sold across lines of business and use-cases.

• You're based in New York City or Austin.

Salary: We aim to be competitive based on location, 50/50 split + share options.

Our culture

At Synthesia, we expect everyone to

• Put the Customer First

• Own it & Go Direct

• Be Fast & Experimental

• Make the Journey Fun

You can read more about this in this public Notion page.

Benefits

• A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series D startup

• Hybrid working environment

• 100% Medical, Dental & Vision

• 401k Plan

• Paid parental leave

• 25 days of annual leave + Public holidays + paid sick leave

• Fun culture with regular socials

• A generous referral scheme

• A brand new computer + monitor

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About the role

Synthesia is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to join our team in London. Reporting to one of our Regional Directors, you will be responsible for generating, developing, and closing opportunities within your designated accounts in the Strategic segment (10,000k+ employees). Central to this role is your ability to communicate value effectively, inspire prospects, and sell the Synthesia solution with conviction. We have ambitious revenue goals this year, and you will play a key role in how the Strategic team contributes to achieving them. We’re building a world-class Go-to-Market organisation where talented, driven salespeople can thrive. If you’re excited to make an impact and hungry for opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing…

• Managing the full sales cycle within our Strategic (10k+ employees) segment.
• Landing new logos and expanding existing relationships through upselling and cross-selling into new departments and use cases.
• Taking full ownership of your pipeline, building detailed account plans and identifying top targets within your accounts.
• Using MEDDPICC to qualify opportunities and identify risk across all stages of the sales funnel.
• Managing all sales activities in Salesforce (CRM).

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• Proven experience landing and expanding within organisations of 10k+ employees, with a track record as a consistent top performer.
• A PG mindset, with strong outbound prospecting experience and confidence in value-based product demonstrations.
• The ability to identify client pain points and develop compelling ROI-driven value propositions.
• Experience in reputable, value-driven, methodological sales environments, ideally using MEDDPICC, CoM, or similar frameworks.
• Strong business acumen, with examples of how you’ve built business value and cultivated champions across organisations.
• Experience thriving in rapid-growth environments, embracing both the opportunities and challenges they bring.
• Executive presence, paired with exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English.

Culture

At Synthesia, we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback, and structure our work, empowering everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.

Benefits

• A hybrid setting where you can work from our London office (we are also open to UK remote for this role).
• Paid parental leave entitles primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays.
• Cycle to work scheme (London).
• Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis), including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
• A generous referral scheme if you help us hire.
• Pension contribution/salary sacrifice.
• Work from home set up.

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