Sr. Technical Sales Enablement Program Manager

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Remote, Western Europe

An overview of this role

As an individual contributor reporting to the Sr Director of Global Field Enablement, you will build and deploy product enablement programs and training curricula to help our customer-facing field teams build a deeper technical understanding of our product use cases, effectively demonstrate and clearly differentiate our platform capabilities, and successfully articulate the power of GitLab’s AI-Powered DevSecOps platform. 

In this role, you will partner with Technical Marketing, Product Marketing and Management, Solutions Architecture & Field CTO, Customer Success, Customer Education, and various other field team members to build quantitatively measurable product enablement for our customer-facing teams. 

If you are a builder, if you enjoy working with technical go-to-market teams, and if experiential lab-based training and scenario-based enablement sounds exciting, then you should apply.   

What you’ll do  

• Build and define technical sales capability models and product knowledge skills matrices for multiple roles (Account Executives, Customer Success Managers, Solution Architects, and Professional Services)
• Build, deploy, maintain, and report on blended learning solutions and pathways by role (digital self-service, experiential/labs, instructor-led workshops, assessments, and technical accreditations).
• Run bi-annual (2x per year) self and manager skills assessments mapped to the skills matrices and report on the continuous progress improvements and opportunities or skill gaps.
• Create and manage a repository of consumable product training, demo videos, labs and workshops, and other resources for digital self-service consumption. 
• Collaborate regularly with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Technical Marketing, and Customer Education teams to align on product enablement plans and learning paths.
• Analyze and report on the success of all product enablement programs and training, including business outcomes like use case adoption, effective proof of value and trial execution, pipeline generation, product competitive differentiation and customer messaging (at scale), and efficient pipeline stage progression.
• Build manager coaching resources and accreditations for scaled on-the-job reinforcement and sustainment.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the entire GitLab application and use cases.

What you’ll bring 

• 7+ years experience building product enablement programs and curricula for B2B enterprise sales and/or experience in a technical software sales or a technical sales enablement role, solutions engineering or architecture teams, preferably with expertise in DevOps and/or Open Source software 
• Introductory knowledge and subject matter familiarity with modern software development and their associated technologies
• Knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle, security and governance, and continuous integration and continuous deployment, is a plus
• Ability to use GitLab and willing to work with Git and GitLab whenever possible
• Experience writing technical documentation and building experiential learning programs using virtual lab environments
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Self-manages workload to meet deadlines and prioritize accordingly
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to gather feedback and build consensus with multiple stakeholders
• Detailed oriented and analytical

About the team

The GitLab Field Enablement team exists to inspire our field and partners to achieve high levels of success through the acquisition and application of knowledge, skills and behaviors - at scale - that improve productivity and accelerate customer outcomes & growth. We have a lot of fun doing this!

Thanks to our Transparency value, you can learn more about our Field Enablement strategy and programs on our Field Enablement Team Handbook page.