confluent

Director, Strategic Sales Programs

confluent

Remote job description

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That's the power of data in motion in action-giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we're building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.

We're looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent's enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow-whether you're just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you'll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.

About the opportunity:

As the Director of Strategic Sales Programs, you will be tasked with leading highly collaborative and cross-functional teams through the design and execution of impactful sales programs, sponsored at the C-suite level or by key executives. You will utilize your business and go-to-market acumen along with skillsets in sales strategy, analytics, business operations, and project management to deliver programmatic world-class results for the Field Operations group (including field sales and customer success). While this is currently an individual contributor role, your ability to manage and influence a broad team of cross-functional stakeholders from product, marketing, operations, sales, customer success, and partners is instrumental to your success.

What You Will Do:

  • Be the program leader (not the project manager) of key cross-functional programs from design to execution to continuous improvement
  • Rationalize strategic objectives and structure solutions that are executable by cross-functional stakeholders
  • Work closely with key partners such as sales leadership to build a common model of goals and execution, product to support GTM endeavors, marketing to build out GTM execution and roll-out, enablement to arm the sales teams with relevant knowledge, partner to build scale, and operations to ensure backend processes are set up to execute programs smoothly along with systems/KPIs to track the success
  • Act as the glue within each program - develop creative solutions to drive forward progress when roadblocks are identified
  • Keep the management team updated on the success of programs and opportunities to improve

What gives you an edge:

  • Experience in rolling out large cross-functional GTM programs for SaaS/PaaS/IaaS companies; prior GTM consulting experience with top-tier firms a plus
  • Ability and comfort in structuring effective solutions in an ambiguous environment is a must
  • Exposure to working with sales, marketing, partner ecosystem, and product teams to design, formulate and implement strategic sales programs
  • Comfort in managing cross-functional stakeholders at the executive level
  • Knowledge of analytics and when to apply them strategically to ensure optimal results
  • Prior experience presenting/communicating strategic topics to C-suite level executives
  • Experience in building out processes that are required to implement and track large scale programs
  • Ability to roll up sleeves when needed to get things moving
  • Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and a desire to tackle complex challenges
  • Excellent communication and slide-building skills
  • MBA preferred, minimum Bachelor's level degree in Computer Science or Business Administration or relevant experience

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At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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Summary
Company name: confluent
Remote job title: Director, Strategic Sales Programs
Job tags: open-source, big data, infrastructure

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