Regional Vice President, Commercial - Southern Europe

ABOUT US At LangChain, our mission is to enable every company to own its intelligence. We believe agents will transform how companies operate, and we're building the foundation to make that future possible. Our open-source harnesses and LangSmith platform give developers and enterprises the infrastructure to run, improve, and govern agents at scale. We've raised $460M to date, with our most recent funding round valuing the company at $3B, backed by leading investors including Sequoia, Benchmark, IVP, and CapitalG. As we continue to expand our platform and tackle some of the hardest challenges in agent engineering, every team member has the opportunity to make a meaningful impact and help shape both our technology and the future of the industry. More than 7,000 organizations rely on LangSmith, from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, including NVIDIA, Bridgewater, LinkedIn, Workday, and Rippling. We're just getting started on making high-performing agents easier to build and manage at scale. ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring a Regional Vice President within EMEA to own and lead our Southern European Commercial business. You'll inherit a team of four quota-carrying Commercial AEs across the region and be responsible for building the management layer, operating model and partner ecosystem that takes Southern Europe from early traction to consistent, scaled revenue. This is a Director-level hire with second-line ambition. You'll report directly to the VP EMEA and operate with meaningful autonomy across pipeline, hiring, partner relationships and executive engagement.   WHAT YOU'LL OWN Team leadership and performance - Lead, develop and expand the Commercial Sales teams across Southern Europe from day one - Run weekly pipeline reviews, deal coaching sessions and forecast calls with precision and consistency - Identify and close performance gaps early: coach the team to close larger deals faster and navigate complex, multi-stakeholder cycles - Build a culture of accountability and development; create clear career paths for senior individual contributors, including first-line management opportunities as the team scales Revenue - Own the Southern European regional number: quarterly and annual quota attainment across the commercial segment - Build and maintain a healthy pipeline that supports consistent delivery and predictable forecasting to VP EMEA and leadership - Engage directly in strategic deals as executive sponsor, bringing credibility and commercial weight to negotiations - Establish the region's strongest lighthouse accounts across key industry verticals, building referenceable wins that anchor LangChain's market position in EMEA Hiring - Manage multiple open roles across Southern Europe simultaneously: owning the full hiring lifecycle across pipeline, assessment and closing - Partner with the retained search firm and internal talent team to move at pace without compromising on quality - Define the headcount profile for Southern Europe beyond Q1 and feed into H2 planning, ensuring the team is built ahead of the revenue curve Partner ecosystem - Owns hyperscaler and GSI/RSI relationships (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and key SIs) across Southern Europe - Develop a structured partner motion that generates qualified pipeline and supports deal acceleration, reduces risk and drives expansion - Represent LangChain at partner QBRs and executive engagements in region Market presence - Represent LangChain as a keynote-ready leader at partner events, customer engagements, and industry conferences across the region - Build LangChain's brand with technical buyers, CIOs and innovation leaders across EMEA's most important commercial accounts - Bring intelligence on the Southern European market back to the VP EMEA and product teams to inform roadmap and go-to-market positioning   WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Experience - 8+ years in commercial SaaS sales, with at least 3 years in a regional or sub-regional leadership role managing quota-carrying AEs - Demonstrable track record of hitting and exceeding regional revenue targets across multiple quarters - Experience managing teams across multiple countries and time zones, with the cultural intelligence to operate across the Southern European region - Background selling to technical buyers (engineering leaders, CTOs, platform teams): you understand how developer tools get evaluated and adopted - Experience in the AI, data, or developer tooling space strongly preferred; familiarity with the LangChain ecosystem is a meaningful plus Leadership - You've run teams of 6+ AEs before and know the difference between managing and coaching - You can hold a forecast conversation with a VP and a deal coaching session with an AE in the same afternoon and add value in both - You hire well and fast. You know what good looks like for commercial AE profiles and you can run structured hiring processes across four open roles simultaneously - You've built or contributed to a partner motion before: you understand what "partner pipeline" means in practice, not just in theory Operating style - You bias toward action. You don't wait for a playbook to be handed to you: you build it - You're comfortable with ambiguity and early-stage scale. This is not a role with a fully defined motion; you'll shape a significant part of it - You communicate clearly and directly, to your team and to leadership - You're present in the market. You attend the right events, know the right people, and build relationships that translate into pipeline and retention   COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY: We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations. BENEFITS Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.