Title:Director, Sales Enablement
Location:United States; East Coast. Preferably local to Cleveland, OH or Atlanta, GA.
Experience:Director Level
Job Function:Business Transformation
Employment Type:Full-time
Industry:Enterprise Software
Applicants must holdUS citizen or US permanent resident status.
About the position
Create a learning and enablement infrastructure for our pre-sales/customer facing teams in order to build a field team which achieves a quick ramp and time to value for new hires (onboarding), impactful messaging in the market and overall increased throughput in the sales funnel.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy learning initiatives that enable customer-facing teams to achieve their department and individual goals.
- Define strategic vision for deployment of sales enablement best practices - aimed at enabling end-users to add value to every customer-facing interaction.
- Map Keyfactorâs sales process to our customerâs buying journey to understand and enhance what skills, knowledge, process and tools are required by our pre-sales team to increase velocity and conversion rates at each stage in those processes.
- Design 'always onâ continuous programs that improve effectiveness of the sale â measured by conversion rates throughout our sales funnel.
- Provide SDRs, sales directors and channel team the resources they need to increase efficiency through the sales funnel â including content curation and dissemination, training delivery and overall improvement and consistency in customer-facing messaging.
- Create and manage sales âplaybooksâ which centralize the typical sales cycle framework and decision trees for sales plays.
- Collaborate closely with product owners, product marketing, revenue operations and sales leaders to reach a group alignment on priorities during build phase. Manage and incorporate feedback loops within leaders across the
- Maintain a high level of usability for end users â content, assets and training are easily accessed and translated into correct behavior in the field.
- Own the training and implementation of messaging around a new feature
- Define auditing practices â align with sales leaders to ensure that training and that enablement training is put into practice.
- Conduct ongoing analysis and provide to leaders a recommended action plans of the current state of sales efficiency.
- Develop and maintain a 6 â12 month roadmap of enablement initiatives.
- Design and manage a comprehensive onboarding programs aimed at reducing the time to productivity for new hires.
- Regularly spend time in the field with managers and individual contributors to understand the ârealityâ and build sales enablement deliverables to meet their needs.
- Have an enthusiastic âroll up your sleevesâ mentality and comfortability with ambiguity
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence groups to a decision point
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence groups to a decision point
Skills and Qualifications
- 3+ years relevant experience supporting a sales organization
- Excellent communication skills including presenting, editing and facilitating live training sessions
- Excellent program management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities under tight timelines
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence groups to a decision point
- Have an enthusiastic âroll up your sleevesâ mentality and comfortability with ambiguity
- Strong technical acumen, demonstrated ability to learn a technical product and operate in a high-tech environment
Compensation
Salary will be commensurate with experience.â¯
Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits
We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas. A few initiatives that make our culture special include:â¯
- Comprehensive benefit coverageâ¯
- Dedicated employee focused ambassadors via Key Contributor & Culture Committeeâ¯
- DIVERSE Commitmentâ¯â¯
- Global Volunteer Dayâ¯
- Flexible time offâ¯
- Regular Cross Functional meetingsâ¯
- Regular Leadership Development meetingsâ¯
- Regular All Hands meetings â followed by group gatheringsâ¯â¯
- Second Fridayâs (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month)â¯
- The Keyfactor Alliance Programâ¯
- Weekly Feedback Snapshotâ¯
Our Core Values
Our core values are extremely important to how we run our business and what we look for in every team member:â¯â¯
Trust is paramount.â¯â¯
We deliver security software and solutions where trust and openness are of the highest importance for our customers. We are honest and a trusted partner in every aspect of business.â¯â¯
Customers are core.â¯â¯
We strategize, operate, and execute through a customer-centric view. We prioritize the security interests of our customers, and we act as if their data were our own.â¯â¯
Innovation never stops, it only accelerates.â¯â¯
The speed of change is accelerating. We are committed, through investment and focus, to stay ahead of the innovation curve.â¯â¯
We deliver with agility.â¯â¯â¯
We thrive in high-paced and continually changing environments. We navigate through newly added variables, adjust accordingly, while driving towards our strategic goals.â¯â¯
United by respect.â¯â¯â¯
Respect for all is what unites us. We promote diversity, inclusivity, equity, and acting with empathy and openness, both in our business and in our communities.â¯â¯
Teams make âitâ happen.â¯â¯
Vision and goals are not individually achievable â they require teamwork. We pride ourselves in operating as a cohesive team, creating promoters and partners, and winning as one.â¯â¯
Keyfactor is a proud equal opportunity employer.â¯
REASONABLE ACCOMODATION: Applicants with disabilities may contact a member of Keyfactorâs People team via [email protected]/or telephone at 1.216.785.2990 to request and arrange for accommodations at any time.
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