Technical Enablement Manager

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains. Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security, and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default. Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

About The Role

Chainguard’s Enablement Team is critical in strategically implementing key business initiatives to ensure that new and existing frontline team members are equipped with the information, skills, and behaviors they need to thrive and succeed in their roles.

The Technical Enablement Manager will be aligned with our technical GTM teams, including Sales Engineering, Solution Architecture, Customer Success Management, and Technical Support Engineering. They will partner closely with these leaders to identify skill gaps and opportunities and provide the relevant support to ensure these teams are effectively enabled and demonstrating success in each of their core areas. In addition to supporting these teams, this role will be responsible for continuing to uplevel our sales team members on all things product and industry.

Responsibilities

• Build robust relationships with leadership and teams in Sales Engineering and Customer Success, as well as the supporting enterprise ecosystem teams to ensure content, methodologies, and materials align with their priorities and processes.
• Define the strategy/roadmap for Technical Enablement and tactfully manage competing priorities to meet all stakeholder needs.
• Develop demo methodologies and certification programs.
• Partner with Product and Product Marketing teams for technical field readiness around upcoming releases and launches.
• Coach sales teams for continuous education on industry and product.
• Institutionalize knowledge and decisions across technical teams and ensure that knowledge is documented and easily searchable in content management solution (i.e., Showpad).
• Provide structured feedback and coaching to technical teams.
• Design optimal learning experiences using adult learning theory principles and robust learning objectives while catering to various learning styles in a virtual environment.
• Build, deliver, and continually manage role-based technical onboarding programs.
• Build technical programming into LMS; track for completion and ongoing skill development and content mastery.
• Deliver technical training, along with SMEs, in virtual and in-person environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in Linux-based environments.
• Someone who has held the role (and understands the world) of a sales engineer or customer success manager within the enterprise SaaS space, ideally within cybersecurity or application security.

Application Instructions

• Not specified. (Please refer to Chainguard's website for application instructions.)