Senior Manager, Partner Enablement

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

The Partner Sales Enablement team, reporting into the GTM Enablement department, is responsible for building world-class learning and certification programs to create external partner champions, increase partner-sourced sales opportunities, and improve customer outcomes. Partner Sales Enablement aligns with our Partner sales team to enable our external partners including system integrators, cloud, ISVs, OEM, and tech partners.

This role is a first-line manager position, based in USA West, leading a four India-based team of program managers. This role has two main focuses 1) enabling partners to build sales and pre-sales engineering capabilities and 2) enabling partners to implement and deliver MongoDB projects successfully. This position reports to the Director of GTM Effectiveness

This role is an integral part of the GTM Enablement department, supporting our partner sales revenue targets. 

Key areas of responsibilities include:

• Creating and owning the partner enablement strategy to support our global partner ecosystem (system integrators, VAR, Tech, ISV, and Cloud including AWS, GCP, and MS Azure)
• Managing an India-based team of enablement program managers to coordinate and deliver education and certification programs to our partners
• Teaming with our partners, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to expand course and certification offerings for our partners. 
• Collaborating with the Partner Solution Architect Team to design impactful curriculum and facilitation
• Designing learning journeys for various sales, pre-sales, and post-sales partner personas
• Collaborating with marketing and partner program teams to promote partner certification offerings
• Providing subject matter expertise to internal and external stakeholders on enablement and certification best practices 
• Designing new processes to scale the delivery for ILT, VILT, and e-learning offerings
• Working with cross-functional operational and technical teams to automate learning operations for efficiency and scale
• Teaming with MongoDB University team to enhance the partner learning experience through improved systems and processes

In your first 60 days, you will 

• Familiarize yourself with our business model and Partner Go-to-Market strategy
• Attend new hire sales training to learn about MongoDB’s technology, what we sell, and how we sell 
• Gain competency with our partner enablement tech stack (Custom web-forms, Thought Industries LMS, Segment, Salesforce, and Tableau) 
• Review all partner enablement offerings and look for opportunities for improvement
• Dive deep into team objectives and individual responsibilities, looking for opportunities to prioritize and improve team productivity

Within 120 Days, you will

• Be confident explaining our enablement offerings to partners and stakeholders
• Share your informed point of view and vision with the team and stakeholders for buy in
• Develop key relationships cross-functionally to support partner enablement programs and delivery
• Identify process and systems improvements and work with operations teams to form a roadmap of enhancements 

As you grow, you will

• Lead strategic enablement initiatives impacting the worldwide partner sales organization and our partners
• Proactively identify opportunities for strategy, program, content and facilitation innovations
• Be a leader on the Sales Enablement team, with a deep understanding of our product offerings, growth opportunities, and our culture and values
• Be known as a Subject Matter Expert on Partner Go to Market and enablement at MongoDB
• Influence cross-functional teams to support partner enablement initiatives

The ideal candidate will have... 

• 2+ years in sales enablement and/or partner enablement
• 1+ year experience leading a team of 3 or more individual contributors
• A background in creating customer or partner learning programs for scale including ILT, VILT, and e-learning delivery models
• Experience teaming with operations, partner programs, and partner marketing to advance partner enablemen