Regional Director of Sales, SEA

About the role:

The Regional Director of Sales for Southeast Asia (SEA) will be responsible for driving revenue growth, leading the sales strategy, and managing a high-performing sales team within the region. This role is pivotal in expanding our presence and partnerships across SEA countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The successful candidate will have strong experience in enterprise software sales, industry exposure to payments, fraud prevention, or e-commerce solutions, and a deep understanding of the SEA market landscape.

What you’ll be doing:

• Sales Strategy & Execution: Develop and implement an effective sales strategy to drive growth, increase market penetration, and achieve revenue targets across the SEA region.
• Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and manage a regional sales team, providing clear goals, feedback, and performance management to ensure alignment with company objectives.
• Market Expansion: Identify and capitalize on new business opportunities within the SEA region. Build and maintain relationships with key decision-makers, influencers, and partners.
• Customer Relationship Management: Foster long-term relationships with enterprise clients and partners, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Pipeline Management: Oversee the sales pipeline from lead generation to closing, ensuring accurate forecasting and reporting on sales performance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams such as Product, Marketing, and Customer Success to align the sales process with customer needs and market trends.
• Industry Expertise: Stay abreast of fraud prevention trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes in the SEA region. Utilize this knowledge to position the company as a market leader.
• Regional Travel: Travel across SEA countries as needed to meet with clients, partners, and internal teams.

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of experience in sales leadership, with a proven track record of driving revenue growth for a B2B enterprise software company focused on fraud prevention, payments, e-commerce, and/or the identity security industry
• 5+ years of previous experience in an Enterprise Account Executive position achieving large quota targets.
• Strong experience working in the SEA region, with a deep understanding of market dynamics, customer needs, and local business cultures.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong network of contacts within the region’s enterprise and technology sectors, ideally with a focus on the payments landscape.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
• Understading and utilization of MEDDPICC sales methodology.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and commmission plan
• Comprehensive and generous health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays Hybrid work:

At Forter, we have embraced a hybrid work model that combines the benefits of in-office collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. As part of this exciting approach, Team members are invited to work from the office at least 2 days per week. Within these two days, we encourage employees to join each week, for a department Team Day and for a Hub Day within each office. Your recruiter will share the specifics of these days.

Our hope is that a balance of in-person collaboration will aid massively in employee professional growth, development and relationship-building.

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