Sales Director, Agentic Code Review

3 мес. назад

USADirectorOnsite

Leading sales for AI code review and governance solutions at .

Who is Sonar? Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code verification and governance, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable. Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code. We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow,, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explaina

You will be a founding leader of the go-to-market team, responsible for building and running the sales function while personally carrying a quota-bearing book of business. You'll report directly to the CRO, own the team's number, and lead from the front — closing your own strategic deals with CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of Platform Engineering, while building and coaching the AEs around you. This is a player-coach role inside a category-defining platform. You'll own the team's revenue outcomes end-to-end, while also carrying direct deal responsibility yourself. You'll work closely with the founders of, the CRO, and the broader Sonar marketing, sales, and customer success teams to stand up go-to-market capabilities from the ground up.

Have 7+ years of full-cycle, quota-carrying SaaS sales experience, including 3+ years in a sales leadership role managing individual contributors and owning a team number
Demonstrate a proven track record as an individual contributor consistently exceeding quota in a technical B2B sales role, ideally selling to IT, DevOps, platform engineering, or security buyers
Have direct experience operating as a genuine player-coach — closing their own deals while simultaneously leading and developing a team
Possess strong technical competency to learn and Sonar's software solutions, engaging credibly with both technical buyers and executive stakeholders; strong familiarity with modern software development (Git, CI/CD, code review workflows, SDLC tooling) required
Have experience building sales processes, playbooks, or a team from the ground up in a startup or early-stage GTM environment
Be comfortable operating with direct executive exposure, including regular forecast and strategy conversations with a CRO or equivalent
Have high levels of customer empathy and a passion for customer success
Be energized about working in a startup environment, with a strong work ethic, embrace of ambiguity, and enthusiasm for constant learning
Be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and excited to work in person with the team in the San Mateo office

Own the team's revenue number for standalone AI code review deals, while personally prospecting, closing, and managing a quota-carrying book of strategic accounts
Report directly to the CRO on forecast, pipeline health, and go-to-market strategy for the squad
Recruit, hire, and onboard the founding AE team, building sales processes and playbooks from scratch as the squad scales
Coach and develop AEs through deal reviews, pipeline inspection, and live deal involvement — stepping in personally on the team's largest or most technically complex opportunities
Set territory and account strategy across the team, balancing your own patch with coverage and capacity for the wider group
Become a product expert in both and the broader Sonar portfolio, modeling technical credibility for the team through your own demos and proofs-of-concept
Build repeatable go-to-market motion — outbound campaigns, ICP targeting, and pipeline generation — and instill this discipline across the team
Maintain rigorous sales process hygiene across the team, leveraging Command of the Message, MEDDPICC, and GTM tooling (Clari, Outreach, Salesforce) to drive forecast accuracy and high-velocity cycles
Represent the squad in leadership and QBR settings, reporting results, risks, and strategy to senior stakeholders
Provide direct input to product teams on customer feedback and roadmap priorities, drawing on both your own deals and the team's collective pipeline