Romain GAUTHIER

Head of High Velocity Sales at Atlassian

France

About

Curious and passionate about AI GTMs at the moment. Eager to support growth, to create and to develop disruptive methods. Joined @Atlassian as Head of High Velocity Sales (SDR, SMB sales and AI Natives) Feel free to connect.

Experience

  • Head of High Velocity Sales at Atlassian
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Driving Global High Velocity Sales team (300 FTEs), part of SLT • SDR Organization • SMB Sales Organization • AI & Digital Natives Unit • Creation of AI led GTM

  • Member at Frenchfounders
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs

  • SAP (12 yrs 11 mos)
    • Global Vice President - Grow with SAP for Scaleups
      Apr 2022 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Founded and scaled Grow with SAP for Scaleups globally - Business Unit dedicated to hypergrowth companies • From 1.5M€ ACV to 150M€+ ARR in 5 years • Global GTM with direct reports (10 Senior FTEs) and overlay (100+ SDRs and AEs) • > 600 hypergrowth Customers signed under the program

    • Regional Vice President - New Customers EMEA North at SAP
      Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      • Driving New Customers engagements and consolidated budget (70m€+) for the EMEA North region • Founded and leading GROW with SAP, dedicated programme for Hypergrowth Companies

    • Customer Officer - Office of the President, EMEA North
      Jan 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Grow with SAP for Scaleups - Founder at grow with SAP for Scaleups
    Jan 2020 - Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Founded and leading Grow with SAP (now renamed Grow with SAP for Scaleups) - an intrapreneurship adventure with a simple motto: Powering Tomorrow, Today. We believe Scale ups are leaders in building the companies for a better tomorrow. To fulfil our duty as Europe’s largest tech corporate, we have created a special offering for scale-up companies designed to provide the tools to help the businesses of tomorrow reach their maximum growth potential. 2 pillars - RUN on SAP: SaaS only offering with dedicated end to end engagement for hypergrowth - Hypergrowth HUB: SAP acting as a business catalyst (opening up customer install base, visibility with investors, joint GTM)

  • C# Developer at CAPITAL BANKING SOLUTIONS
    Apr 2010 - Jul 2010 · 4 mos