Sales Director Jobs in San Jose, CA
Sales Director jobs in San Jose are in strong demand, concentrated in North San Jose, Downtown, and the Santana Row corridor across enterprise software, semiconductors, SaaS, and cybersecurity. Employers hiring right now include Rambus, Adobe, and RowCal. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Automation Anywhere is the leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA), transforming how work gets done with AI-powered automation. Its APA system, built on the industry’s first Process Reasoning Engine (PRE) and specialized AI agents, combines process discovery, RPA, end-to-end orchestration, document processing, and analytics—all delivered with enterprise-grade security and governance. Guided by its vision to fuel the future of work, Automation Anywhere helps organizations worldwide boost productivity, accelerate growth, and unleash human potential.
Our opportunity:
At Automation Anywhere, the leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA), we're helping organizations redefine the future of work through intelligent automation that drives measurable business outcomes. As we continue to accelerate growth, we're seeking a commercially savvy Director of Sales Renewals to build and scale a world-class renewals organization. This is far more than a revenue protection role. You'll transform the renewal experience into a strategic growth engine by strengthening executive partnerships, increasing customer value, and uncovering expansion opportunities across our global customer base. Operating at the center of Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, RevOps, and Product, you'll be a highly visible leader with significant influence across our go-to-market organization.
Who you’ll report to:
This role will report to the VP, Customer Retention
Location: Hybrid role with regular onsite workdays in our San Jose, CA office required.
You will make an impact by being responsible for:
- Owning renewal performance for the assigned business, including renewal bookings, gross retention, net retention, on-time renewals, forecast accuracy, and pipeline health
- Leading, coaching, and developing a team of renewal professionals; establish clear performance standards, operating rhythms, inspection cadences, and accountability
- Building renewal strategies for enterprise and strategic accounts, including early risk identification, save plans, pricing and commercial strategy, multi-year agreements, and executive escalation
- Creating a disciplined 120/90/60/30-day renewal motion that improves predictability and reduces last-minute commercial risk
- Partnering tightly with Account Executives and Customer Success to connect customer outcomes, adoption, realized value, and executive sponsorship to the renewal strategy
- Identifying expansion, cross-sell, and upsell opportunities during the renewal cycle and route them into the appropriate sales motion
- Driving accurate weekly and quarterly forecasting, clearly communicating risk, upside, blockers, and required executive actions
- Leading complex negotiations involving pricing, terms, procurement, Legal, Finance, and executive stakeholders while protecting long-term customer relationships and commercial value
- Using customer health, product adoption, support signals, usage, engagement, and commercial data to identify churn risk early and trigger proactive interventions
- Standardizing playbooks, segmentation, dashboards, tooling, and automation to make the renewal organization more scalable and productive
- Surfacing recurring churn and friction themes back to Product, Sales, Customer Success, and leadership so the company can address root causes—not just individual renewals
- Building a culture that balances customer advocacy with commercial rigor, urgency, accountability, and a strong bias for action
What Success Looks Like
- Improved GRR and NRR with a measurable reduction in preventable churn
- High on-time renewal rate and materially fewer end-of-quarter surprises
- Forecast accuracy leadership can trust
- Renewal risk identified early enough to change the outcome
- Stronger multi-year renewal and expansion performance
- A consistent, scalable operating model across the renewals team
- A high-performing team with clear goals, strong coaching, and disciplined execution
You will be a great fit if you have:
- 8+ years of B2B SaaS sales, renewals, account management, customer success, or retention experience, with meaningful ownership of enterprise renewals
- 3+ years of people leadership experience, ideally leading renewal, retention, account management, or commercial teams
- Demonstrated ownership of recurring revenue metrics such as GRR, NRR, renewal rate, churn, forecast accuracy, and expansion
- Experience with complex enterprise negotiations, pricing, contract structures, procurement, and executive-level customer conversations
- Strong SaaS financial and commercial acumen; comfortable operating against a number and managing a material ARR portfolio
- Proven ability to partner across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, RevOps, Product, and executive leadership
- Strong operational discipline and experience building playbooks, segmentation, dashboards, forecast cadences, and scalable processes
- Fluency with Salesforce and customer success / revenue intelligence tools; experience using automation or AI to improve workflow and risk detection is a plus
- Executive presence, clear communication, resilience, and the ability to lead calmly through escalations and high-stakes negotiations
- Experience in enterprise software, AI, automation, cybersecurity, data/cloud, or another complex recurring-revenue technology environment strongly preferred
You excel in these key competencies:
- Executive presence and relationship-building skills
- Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and influence
- Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution capabilities
- Proven people leadership, coaching, and talent development
- Resilience, adaptability, and calm decision-making under pressure
The salary range or on-target earnings (base salary + on-target incentives) for this position is $220,000 - $250,000 a year. The salary ultimately offered is determined through a review of education, industry experience, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant in alignment with market data and other factors. This position is also eligible for equity and a full range of medical and other benefits.
Ready to Revolutionize Work? Join Us.
This is an opportunity to work with a global, passionate team pioneering technology that’s redefining the way people work, everywhere. Join us and discover the many ways that you can have an impact, achieve your potential, and go be great.
Job Segment OR Key Words: SaaS, NRR, Automation, APA, Renewal Management, Customer Success, Leadership, B2B Software Solutions
#LI-DE1
Benefits and perks you’ll appreciate:
- Flexible work schedule / remote roles
- Unlimited Personal Time Off
- 12 holidays off per year
- 4 days volunteer time off per year
- Eligible for 4 company Achievement days off per year
- Variety of health care and well-being benefits
- Paid family/parental leave
- We are a designated “Best Place to Work” for 2 years in a row!
- Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in America 2023 –
Automation Anywhere is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email recruiting@automationanywhere.com.
At this time, we typically do not offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates should generally be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
All unsolicited resumes submitted to any @automationanywhere.com email address, whether submitted by an individual or by an agency, will not be eligible for an agency fee.
About Us:
Automation Anywhere is the leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA), transforming how work gets done with AI-powered automation. Its APA system, built on the industry’s first Process Reasoning Engine (PRE) and specialized AI agents, combines process discovery, RPA, end-to-end orchestration, document processing, and analytics—all delivered with enterprise-grade security and governance. Guided by its vision to fuel the future of work, Automation Anywhere helps organizations worldwide boost productivity, accelerate growth, and unleash human potential.
Our opportunity:
At Automation Anywhere, the leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA), we're helping organizations redefine the future of work through intelligent automation that drives measurable business outcomes. As we continue to accelerate growth, we're seeking a commercially savvy Director of Sales Renewals to build and scale a world-class renewals organization. This is far more than a revenue protection role. You'll transform the renewal experience into a strategic growth engine by strengthening executive partnerships, increasing customer value, and uncovering expansion opportunities across our global customer base. Operating at the center of Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, RevOps, and Product, you'll be a highly visible leader with significant influence across our go-to-market organization.
Who you’ll report to:
This role will report to the VP, Customer Retention
Location: Hybrid role with regular onsite workdays in our San Jose, CA office required.
You will make an impact by being responsible for:
- Owning renewal performance for the assigned business, including renewal bookings, gross retention, net retention, on-time renewals, forecast accuracy, and pipeline health
- Leading, coaching, and developing a team of renewal professionals; establish clear performance standards, operating rhythms, inspection cadences, and accountability
- Building renewal strategies for enterprise and strategic accounts, including early risk identification, save plans, pricing and commercial strategy, multi-year agreements, and executive escalation
- Creating a disciplined 120/90/60/30-day renewal motion that improves predictability and reduces last-minute commercial risk
- Partnering tightly with Account Executives and Customer Success to connect customer outcomes, adoption, realized value, and executive sponsorship to the renewal strategy
- Identifying expansion, cross-sell, and upsell opportunities during the renewal cycle and route them into the appropriate sales motion
- Driving accurate weekly and quarterly forecasting, clearly communicating risk, upside, blockers, and required executive actions
- Leading complex negotiations involving pricing, terms, procurement, Legal, Finance, and executive stakeholders while protecting long-term customer relationships and commercial value
- Using customer health, product adoption, support signals, usage, engagement, and commercial data to identify churn risk early and trigger proactive interventions
- Standardizing playbooks, segmentation, dashboards, tooling, and automation to make the renewal organization more scalable and productive
- Surfacing recurring churn and friction themes back to Product, Sales, Customer Success, and leadership so the company can address root causes—not just individual renewals
- Building a culture that balances customer advocacy with commercial rigor, urgency, accountability, and a strong bias for action
What Success Looks Like
- Improved GRR and NRR with a measurable reduction in preventable churn
- High on-time renewal rate and materially fewer end-of-quarter surprises
- Forecast accuracy leadership can trust
- Renewal risk identified early enough to change the outcome
- Stronger multi-year renewal and expansion performance
- A consistent, scalable operating model across the renewals team
- A high-performing team with clear goals, strong coaching, and disciplined execution
You will be a great fit if you have:
- 8+ years of B2B SaaS sales, renewals, account management, customer success, or retention experience, with meaningful ownership of enterprise renewals
- 3+ years of people leadership experience, ideally leading renewal, retention, account management, or commercial teams
- Demonstrated ownership of recurring revenue metrics such as GRR, NRR, renewal rate, churn, forecast accuracy, and expansion
- Experience with complex enterprise negotiations, pricing, contract structures, procurement, and executive-level customer conversations
- Strong SaaS financial and commercial acumen; comfortable operating against a number and managing a material ARR portfolio
- Proven ability to partner across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, RevOps, Product, and executive leadership
- Strong operational discipline and experience building playbooks, segmentation, dashboards, forecast cadences, and scalable processes
- Fluency with Salesforce and customer success / revenue intelligence tools; experience using automation or AI to improve workflow and risk detection is a plus
- Executive presence, clear communication, resilience, and the ability to lead calmly through escalations and high-stakes negotiations
- Experience in enterprise software, AI, automation, cybersecurity, data/cloud, or another complex recurring-revenue technology environment strongly preferred
You excel in these key competencies:
- Executive presence and relationship-building skills
- Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and influence
- Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution capabilities
- Proven people leadership, coaching, and talent development
- Resilience, adaptability, and calm decision-making under pressure
The salary range or on-target earnings (base salary + on-target incentives) for this position is $220,000 - $250,000 a year. The salary ultimately offered is determined through a review of education, industry experience, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant in alignment with market data and other factors. This position is also eligible for equity and a full range of medical and other benefits.
Ready to Revolutionize Work? Join Us.
This is an opportunity to work with a global, passionate team pioneering technology that’s redefining the way people work, everywhere. Join us and discover the many ways that you can have an impact, achieve your potential, and go be great.
Job Segment OR Key Words: SaaS, NRR, Automation, APA, Renewal Management, Customer Success, Leadership, B2B Software Solutions
#LI-DE1
Benefits and perks you’ll appreciate:
- Flexible work schedule / remote roles
- Unlimited Personal Time Off
- 12 holidays off per year
- 4 days volunteer time off per year
- Eligible for 4 company Achievement days off per year
- Variety of health care and well-being benefits
- Paid family/parental leave
- We are a designated “Best Place to Work” for 2 years in a row!
- Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in America 2023 –
Automation Anywhere is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email recruiting@automationanywhere.com.
At this time, we typically do not offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates should generally be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
All unsolicited resumes submitted to any @automationanywhere.com email address, whether submitted by an individual or by an agency, will not be eligible for an agency fee.
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Sales Director Jobs in San Jose: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a sales director job in San Jose?
Focus your search on North San Jose's tech corridor and the Downtown core, where enterprise software, semiconductor, and SaaS companies concentrate most of their commercial leadership hiring. Candidates who can show a history of closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals in B2B tech gain the strongest footing here. Familiarity with Silicon Valley sales cycles and existing relationships with local procurement teams at major tech firms give applicants a clear edge over generalist candidates.
Which companies hire sales directors in San Jose?
Employers hiring sales directors in San Jose right now include Rambus, Adobe, and RowCal, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. The local market is anchored by established enterprise tech firms, semiconductor manufacturers, and fast-growing SaaS companies, many headquartered or with major commercial offices in the North San Jose and Santana Row areas.
Are there remote sales director jobs in San Jose?
Yes, though most sales director roles involve some in-person presence given the client-facing and team leadership demands of the position. About 38% of sales director openings tied to San Jose are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with the most flexibility appearing in SaaS and cybersecurity companies whose customers are distributed nationally rather than locally concentrated.
How can I get a sales director job in San Jose with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is moving up from a senior account executive or regional sales manager role inside a San Jose-based tech or SaaS company, where internal promotion is common when you can demonstrate quota overperformance. Smaller startups in North San Jose and the Santana Row area regularly promote high-performing individual contributors into their first director role. Building relationships through local revenue leadership communities and referrals from within your current company matters considerably in this market.
Which industries hire the most sales directors in San Jose?
The sectors hiring the most sales directors in San Jose are Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Manufacturing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. San Jose's identity as a global hub for semiconductor design, enterprise software, and cybersecurity means commercial leadership roles in those fields turn over and expand at a higher rate here than in most comparable U.S. cities.
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