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Sales Enablement Director
Butterfly Network – New York, NY
We are looking for a Sales Enablement leader who can partner with our Global Commercial Leadership to develop a program that will enable our sales team to crush its goals.
As part of our team, your core responsibilities will be:
- Ensuring that all new members of the sales team are enabled on how to sell Butterfly, which includes developing a program, content, and certification
- Partnering with marketing and product to ensure that all team members are kept up to date on our product enhancements, deliverables, and competitive intelligence
- Keeping track of the latest of sales trends and approaches to develop best practices to keep our sales team on top of their game
- Devising a program to cut ramp time in half for new hires
- Reviewing and analyzing pipeline and performance data with Commercial Leadership to identify problem areas and develop programs to tackle and resolve those areas
- Planning semi-annual sales seminars including annual sales kickoff to ensure that we Align, Inspire, and Educate the Butterfly sales team
Qualifications
Baseline skills/experiences/attributes:
- 3+ years experience as a Sales Enablement leader at a High Growth B2B SaaS startup OR you:
- Have had had an enablement role and developed material and curriculum for sales (or other) functions before
- Have sold software before and would now prefer to help train others on how to do it
- Is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal, persuasion, presentation, and writing skills
- Humble, hungry, curious
Ideally, you also have these skills/experiences/attributes (but it’s ok if you don’t!):
- Healthcare / medical device experience experience
Additional Information
We offer great perks:
- Fully covered medical insurance plan, and dental & vision coverage – as a health-tech company, we place great worth on our teams’ well-being
- Competitive salaried compensation – we value our employees and show it
- Equity – we want every employee to be a stakeholder
- Pre-tax commuter benefits – we make your commute more reasonable
- Free onsite meals + kitchen stocked with snacks
- 401k plan – we facilitate your retirement goals
- Beautiful office overlooking the Flatiron building in NYC
- The opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives!
For this role, we provide visa assistance for qualified candidates.
Butterfly network does not accept agency resumes.
Butterfly Network Inc. is an E-Verify Company and is an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or Veteran status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Senior Manager, Sales Enablement Programs
Proofpoint – New York, NY
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!
We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
The Role
The Senior Manager, Sales Enablement Programs is a member of Proofpoint’s Global Sales Enablement team. This role develops, implements and manages enablement programs to ensure that the sales organization is well-equipped with the content, training, and resources as well as the sales behaviors and competencies required to meet and exceed quota quarter over quarter. The Senior Manager, Sales Enablement Programs also helps new hires learn how to be successful in their roles, as well as helps existing sales professionals continue to invest in their professional sales skills to enhance selling success and to advance in their careers.
The ideal candidate should be ambitious and forward thinking – someone who continuously sets the bar higher with the enablement programs. This candidate will have experience developing and delivering enablement programs with a global scope.
Your day-to-day
- Collaborate with Sales, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Corporate Marketing, Finance, HR and other internal stakeholders as required to develop programs and content to enhance selling success.
- Leverage strong project management skills to deliver programs on time, in budget and as defined within the project plan.
- Partner with sales teams to identify gaps in performance and develop recommendations and programs to improve.
- Think strategically about Proofpoint’s sales strategy and build programs to cover market, competition, company, products and services, sales processes, sales methodology, manager, coaching, sales tools and skills training.
- Capitalize on your sales methodology experience to help shape and define a sales methodology for Proofpoint sales.
- Take the strategies, competitive plays, and differentiation created by the Product Marketing team and turn it into compelling and persuasive enablement for the sales teams.
- Support sales certifications and work with managers to ensure compliance across teams.
- Define, measure and report on the effectiveness of sales enablement investments and programs.
What you bring to the team
- Experience with security software and/or network infrastructure as well as enterprise software or enterprise SaaS products. Successful sales experience in these areas a plus.
- BA in Business, Training, or other related field with experience in training design, development and management of large-scale projects.
- Ability and desire to work across and collaborate cross-functionally. Ability to gain buy-in and acceptance for programs at the organizational as well as sales level.
- Demonstrate a passion for technologies and solutions, and a strong aptitude for business strategy.
- Strong project management skills combined with an ability to define key performance metrics to measure impact of sales enablement initiatives on sales productivity and effectiveness.
- Experience in developing, implementing and coaching within a defined sales methodology.
- Exceptional people, presentation, verbal and written skills.
- Must be detail oriented, organized, and possess multitasking skills.
- 5+ years of experience designing/delivering training and coaching to sales professionals.
- High proficiency in using multiple and innovative training delivery methods and mediums to include blended learning solutions and online tools such as webcast, podcast, and eLearning/LMS.
- Results-oriented with demonstrated leadership skills. Ability to demonstrate supportive relationships with peers, clients, partners, and corporate executives.
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
Responsibilities Include
- Spearhead strategy development for our Revenue Operations function
- Own the models for productivity and team planning, surfacing insights and recommendations to leadership based on these models and analyses
- Lead roll out of major sales changes such as new pricing and packaging
- Critically evaluate our current processes, overhauling these where necessary to drive efficiencies and improve team performance
- Lead a process with our Revenue and Finance leadership to forecast Sales and CS revenue
- Improve sales and CS productivity by simplifying processes and evaluating new tools, enabling our team to work smarter
- Oversee monthly and quarterly commission payments for sales reps
- Develop a plan to implement a systematic training program for on-boarding and up-skilling Account Executives
- Implement cross-functional operational initiatives
- Collaborate with our Business Intelligence team to take our analysis to the next level, as well as automate reporting
ABOUT YOU
- 7+ years of operations experience with 2+ years as a Revenue Operations/Sales Operations leader
- Management experience
- Proven analytical aptitude and the ability to synthesize and apply insights for impact
- Proven ability to drive operational improvements and to improve Sales/Customer Success team results
- Understanding of a high velocity Saas business model
- Excel, Slides, SFDC experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company stock options
- 100% coverage on medical, vision and dental health plans
- Unlimited Vacation
- 401k plan and commuter benefits
- Office perks: catered lunches 3x/week, catered breakfast 2x/week, unlimited snacks, team happy hours, Free Citi Bike membership, fitness discounts, Free Spotify membership
The Sales Enablement team ensures sales and sales leaders are equipped with the right content, skillset and productivity tools to maximize sales growth and customer success. Sales Enablement solves business problems and opportunities with high impact enablement solutions. The Manager, Sales Enablement will partner with the sales team and the broader sales enablement functions to design and deliver transformable sales enablement. Enablement solutions include various topics such as; product, sales methodologies, operational processes, leadership and soft skills. Whether we are enabling new or tenured sales professionals, we strive to develop the #1 sales organization in the Student Information technology sector. Success will be measured by the overall business impact of your enablement solutions, collaboration across cross-functional teams and deployment of data-driven enablement.
Job Responsibilities
- Work with sales leadership team to design, deliver and measure enablement that increases pipeline, revenue and customer satisfaction
- Collaborate with senior sales stakeholders to determine enablement priorities
- Own the end-to-end enablement program lifecycle from research to build through measurement
- Build a trusted partnership with sales and develop a deep understanding of the business
- Discovery: conduct in depth observation and research to uncover business or sales skill gaps and challenges
- Manage and communicate the prioritized quarterly enablement programs
- Use data to design and measure enablement success relative to ACV & overall AE productivity
- Partner with cross-functional teams such as Product, Marketing, Sales Strategy, and Enablement Operations to design, deliver and measure enablement programs
- Act as a liaison between Sales, Marketing, and Product teams
- Communicate enablement strategies to stakeholders and enablement participants
- Create or coordinate the content to educate the sales team
- Train sales team on the best use of marketing and sales enablement materials
- Field ad-hoc enablement content and support requests from sales team
- Maintain sales enablement content platform and ensure that all information is easily and readily accessible at point of need
- Gather feedback from sales team on a regular basis to consistently improve support programs
- Access Infinite Campus production customer data and production data in public test adhering to the practices and procedures outlined in the master security guidelines
- Other related duties as assigned
Desired Background
- BA/BS degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience in enablement or talent development.
- 5+ years experience in sales enablement programs including, but not limited to: training design, delivery and measurement, communications, strategy, and relationship management
- Salesforce SME: Understand Salesforce culture, portfolio, and organization
Performance Expectations
- Strong Communicator : Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, as well as active listening skills
- Problem Solver : Ability to identify business challenges and enablement solutions
- Collaborative : Adept at project management and cross-functional collaboration
- Agility : Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment.
- Empathy : Empathetic to sales professionals
- Influential : Influence sales professional with insights and challenge the status quo
- Data Driven : Ability to use data to design and measure enablement.
- Effective Prioritization : Ability to align to business and shifting sales priorities
- Visionary : Must be able to innovate and strategically look ahead
- Resilience : Ability to let go of previous expectations or feedback and move forward.
- Creativity : Ability to make enablement fun, engaging and experiential in the virtual and in-person setting
- Perform job responsibilities as directed achieving desired results within expected time frames and with a high degree of quality and professionalism
- Establish and maintain positive and productive work relationships with all staff, customers and business partners
- Able to travel up to 50%