Sales Enablement Manager

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring a Sales Enablement leader to architect the growth journey for our global sales organization. At Canonical, sales enablement isn't just about onboarding; it’s about ensuring our teams can articulate the complex value of Ubuntu, OpenStack, and AI infrastructure to the world’s most sophisticated tech lead...

If you are an experienced leader ready to lead global strategy, you will find a high-performance environment that challenges you. You will work with Sales Leadership to identify performance gaps, reduce ramp time, improve productivity and increase win rates. This is a high-visibility role where you will ensure our "...

Lead enablement programs to drive continuous improvement in sales productivity and ramp time
Lead the design and execution of global sales enablement strategies to drive revenue growth 
Provide coaching and mentoring that incorporates sales strategy, process and proven sales methodology
Drive the creation of advanced sales plays and competitive intelligence resources for enterprise markets
Collaborate and align cross-functionally with Sales, Revenue Operations, Product, Marketing, and all GTM teams to ensure enablement strategy supports broader organizational objectives
Own the end-to-end sales onboarding experience, ensuring new hires reach peak productivity rapidly
Identify and deliver training needs for Sales teams for continuous improvements
Collaborate with Product Management and Marketing to translate technical roadmaps into value-based sales narratives
Manage the sales enablement tech stack (CRM, LMS, etc.) to ensure tools are optimizing, not hindering, the sales process through right-time right-place delivery
Provide a framework to relevant teams to develop and maintain high-quality sales assets, including discovery guides, pitch decks, and battlecards
Facilitate live and virtual training sessions on advanced product features and sales techniques
Coordinate the logistics for global sales training events and twice-yearly "sprint" weeks
Monitor, report and act on the adoption and effectiveness of enablement initiatives using data-driven insights
Support the senior team in preparing reports for leadership and auditing sales documentation for accuracy

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Demonstrated experience coaching sales leaders and diagnosing business challenges to drive organizational improvement
Proficiency in a modern sales methodology such as MEDDPICC – able to coach leaders and sellers using this methodology
Ability to align and influence others, establish direction, achieve consensus, and execute
Experience building enablement programs from the ground up in emerging or high-growth markets
Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship
Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Appreciative of diversity and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organization
Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
Experience in sales enablement, technical training, or sales operations (level-dependent)
Proficiency with Salesforce, modern LMS platforms and project management tools (e.g. Jira)
Basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)