Sales Acceleration Lead

With 1000 intelligence professionals serving over 1900 clients worldwide Recorded Future is the worlds most advanced and largest intelligence company!

Reporting directly to the Director of Sales Enablement the Sales Acceleration Lead will be the catalyst for dramatically reducing time-to-productivity for new hires while continuously sharpening the skills of our 350 global sellers. As the Sales Acceleration Lead you own the outcomes that matter most: getting new sellers to their first deal faster helping tenured reps close bigger deals more consistently and ensuring every seller develops the capabilities needed to hit quota and advance their career.

This role is laser-focused on accelerationbuilding and executing programs that measurably compress ramp time increase win rates and create sustained behavior change across the entire sales organization. Youll work closely with Sales Leadership the Sales Onboarding & Development Lead Product Marketing and Revenue Operations to design learning experiences that translate directly into revenue performance. If youre energized by seeing sellers succeed faster measuring the impact of your programs through real performance metrics and iterating rapidly based on what actually works in the fieldthis role is for you.

What Youll Do:

• Develop fast-start programs that get new sellers engaging prospects within their first 30 days and establish time-to-productivity benchmarks

• Support the building and launch of the License to Sell certification program establishing competency frameworks aligned to MEDDPICC and Recorded Futures sales motion

• Create structured learning pathways in Highspot that progress sellers from foundational knowledge to advanced execution with modular content for ongoing reinforcement

• Organize and deliver the 2026 enablement road show including virtual training sessions role-based workshops and Sales Leadership Summits

• Design assessment mechanisms including knowledge checks roleplay scenarios and manager observations to validate seller readiness and certification completion

• Build manager enablement programs focused on coaching skills that reinforce License to Sell competencies and drive daily behavior change

• Coordinate sessions and other reinforcement activities that translate sales process best practices into daily sales behaviors and accelerate skill adoption

• Leverage Gong conversation intelligence to identify coaching opportunities inform program design and optimize seller performance

• Develop sales process materials and playbooks for selling with just-in-time learning assets that accelerate deal execution

• Integrate sales tools (Highspot SFDC Gong Clari Second Nature AI) into learning programs and provide ongoing training to maximize technology utilization

• Establish KPIs for sales acceleration including time-to-first-deal ramp time certification completion rates and monitor through leading and lagging indicators

• Report on program impact to sales leadership with data-driven insights collecting feedback from sellers and managers to continuously optimize enablement effectiveness

What Youll Bring:

• Results obsession with new hire ramp and seller development: You measure success by how quickly new sellers hit productivity and how consistently tenured sellers improve their performance

• Sales acumen and credibility: Deep understanding of B2B enterprise sales qualification methodologies (MEDDPICC) and what separates high performers from average performers

• Program design and execution excellence: Proven ability to design learning programs that create measurable behavior change not just knowledge transfer

• Analytical problem-solving: Data-driven approach to identifying performance gaps testing solutions and proving impact through metrics

• Project management capabilities: Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with attention to detail clear milestones and stakeholder communication

• Stakeholder management: Experience collaborating with sales leaders getting buy-in for programs and managing expectations across the organization

• Strong presentation and facilitation skills: Comfortable delivering engaging training to groups of 5 or 500 with ability to read the room and adjust on the fly

• Bias toward action: You prototype and iterate rather than waiting for perfect and youre comfortable learning from what doesnt work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct sales or sales management experience

• Experience with Gong Highspot and Clari

• Adult learning methodology knowledge:

• Cybersecurity or threat intelligence domain knowledge

Why should you join Recorded Future
Recorded Future employees (or Futurists) represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards practicing inclusion and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

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