Director, Global Sales Acceleration

Global Sales Acceleration DirectorWe're not just building better tech. We're rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.The Director, Global Sales Acceleration is a mission-critical role on the Global Sales Acceleration team, reporting directly to the Regional Sales Director, DSP. This role is responsible for defining, institutionalizing, and governing the operating model for global GTM execution, ensuring tight alignment with company-wide growth objectives, consumption targets, and commercial risk priorities. The Director will serve as a primary strategic partner to GTM staff, field sales executives, and cross-functional leadership, driving adoption of consistent execution strategies, scaling proven value patterns, and increasing platform consumption across Confluent's global customer base. By owning a repeatable growth framework and its enterprise-level KPIs, this role directly impacts Confluent's ability to accelerate usage, improve revenue predictability, and drive durable expansion within customers and prospects.What You Will Do:Own the global GTM operating model for strategic sales play execution, ensuring enterprise-level alignment with financial objectives, consumption targets, and risk mitigation mandatesDevelop and govern global Tier 1 plays and strategic execution programs, ensuring consistency, adoption, and measurable field impactEstablish executive reporting cadences (monthly/quarterly) tied to Tier 1 play adoption, consumption velocity, program-attributed pipeline quality, GTM strategy cycle time, and cross-functional alignmentServe as the primary executive interface to C-suite stakeholders, delivering strategic recommendations, KPI inspection, and performance updates to the CEO, CFO, and CROLead and scale a global team of Sales Acceleration Business Partners to activate programs, ensure regional fidelity, and capture structured field insightsDefine and evolve a multi-year GTM strategy roadmap, anticipating future product, market, and regulatory complexityInstitutionalize repeatable customer value patterns, using data to drive account penetration, expansion revenue, usage activation, and deal velocityLaunch and continuously optimize strategic GTM programs in partnership with field leadership, Product, Marketing and Sales OperationsCreate quantitative feedback loops and governance mechanisms to inspect performance, reduce execution variance, and improve forecast predictabilitySecure senior cross-functional commitment for resourcing and prioritization of strategic GTM motions at the VP/SVP levelWhat You Will Bring:10+ years in sales acceleration, GTM strategy, revenue operations, or enterprise sales leadership with a proven track record of driving consumption and expansion. Preferred experience working within a company on a cloud consumption revenue model.Expertise building repeatable, scalable operating models that deliver measurable business impactDemonstrated executive presence with experience presenting strategic recommendations, performance diagnostics, and consumption/risk insights to C-level stakeholdersProven ability to define and autonomously deliver multi-year, cross-functional initiatives with limited oversight in a fast-paced, dynamic environmentStrong financial and business acumen, including pipeline inspection, consumption forecasting, revenue risk analysis, and ROI measurementHighly influential cross-functional leader with credibility across Product, Marketing and Sales OperationsAnalytical decision maker with a data-first approach to GTM optimization, performance inspection, and program governanceClear, concise communication style with the ability to secure executive alignment and drive decision-making at VP/SVP levels globallyCome As You Are. Belonging isn't a perk here. It's the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what's possible. We're proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.