Regional Director, Enterprise Sales

About the role: Forter is seeking an accomplished Regional Director, Enterprise Sales to lead our enterprise sales strategy and execution across the Eastern United States. This role will own regional revenue growth, new-logo acquisition, strategic account development, pipeline health, and forecast accuracy across a complex enterprise territory. You will lead, coach, and develop a high-performing enterprise sales team while building executive relationships with major digital commerce, payments, and technology organizations. Using a consultative, value-based approach, you will help customers understand how Forter’s Trust Platform can reduce fraud and abuse, improve approval rates, optimize payments, and strengthen the customer experience. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring strong commercial judgment, operational rigor, executive presence, and the ability to collaborate across Sales, Solutions Consulting, Customer Success, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Product, Analytics, Finance, and Partnerships. This position emphasizes regional revenue ownership, territory planning, pipeline creation, forecasting discipline, strategic negotiations, and cross-functional execution. What you'll be doing: • Own the Eastern US enterprise sales strategy, regional revenue plan, and execution against bookings and new-logo objectives. • Lead regional territory planning, account segmentation, strategic account penetration, and coordinated go-to-market planning. • Build and maintain a healthy, predictable enterprise pipeline through account-based prospecting, executive engagement, partner development, and collaboration with Sales Development and Marketing. • Coach and develop Enterprise Account Executives on discovery, qualification, value-based selling, deal strategy, negotiation, account planning, and executive communication. • Establish consistent operating rigor across pipeline inspection, opportunity management, forecasting, CRM hygiene, and performance reviews. • Drive accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts using data, deal inspection, and clear risk assessment. • Engage senior executives and economic buyers across eCommerce, payments, fraud, risk, finance, operations, and technology functions. • Lead complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles from opportunity creation through presentation, negotiation, contracting, and close. • Promote a structured sales methodology (MEDDPICC) to improve qualification, deal velocity, forecast accuracy, and execution consistency. Comparable market roles increasingly reference structured methodologies and tool-based pipeline governance. • Collaborate with Solutions Consulting to develop tailored demonstrations, business cases, value narratives, and ROI models. • Partner with Customer Success and Implementation to align customer expectations, support expansion opportunities, and ensure a strong transition from sales to delivery. • Work with Marketing, Revenue Operations, Product, Analytics, Finance, and Partnerships to improve messaging, territory strategy, competitive positioning, and regional execution. • Provide customer and market insight to internal stakeholders to influence product priorities, sales enablement, and go-to-market planning. • Serve as an executive sponsor for strategic opportunities and customer relationships. • Represent Forter at relevant industry events, customer meetings, and executive forums. • Build a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous improvement, and customer focus across the regional sales organization. What you'll need: • 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, SaaS, fintech, payments, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, eCommerce, or a closely related market. • 3-5 years of experience leading enterprise sales t