Senior Director, North America Sales

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Molecular Devices, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. Join Molecular Devices and help drive scientific discovery for life science customers in academia, biotech, pharma, and government.

Senior Director, North America Sales

The Senior Director, North America Sales is responsible for leading a diverse team focused on consistently growing revenue, delighting customers, continually improving commercial processes, and enabling team members to achieve performance and career goals. The role manages a cross‑functional team of sales, customer service, solution engineers, and application scientists with 60 associates and $100M revenue responsibility. The role balances strategy and tactics to improve commercial execution, team engagement, and core growth while collaborating with marketing, service, operations, finance, and human resources. This position reports to the Vice President Global Commercial and works remotely from the Bay Area or Boston (preferably) to cover North America.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop, lead, and execute sales strategies and growth initiatives to drive core growth, take share from competitors, and establish Molecular Devices as the domain expert in 3D biology screening.
• Lead, improve, and sustain key commercial processes : daily management, funnel management, team member onboarding, and other efficiencies.
• Provide direction, leadership, and coaching for all direct reports to achieve sustainable success and productivity.
• Leverage data analysis tools and specialist team members to obtain business insights that support accurate forecasting, new product development decisions, and team member performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cross‑department partners to support improvement of core KPIs : core growth, working capital turns, inventory turns, associate retention, and other metrics.
• Utilize and promote Danaher Business System tools to address process improvement, standard work, and visual management.
• Champion engagement to build organizational and associate capabilities and develop future leaders with diverse talent.

Essential Qualifications

Travel & Physical Requirements

Compensation & Benefits

The annual salary range for this role is $250,000–$275,000. This role is also eligible for bonus / incentive pay. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical / dental / vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Remote Work

This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team.

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