Associate Director Sales Enablement

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Company Overview

Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating optimizing and revolutionizing the way people vehicles and things move through the world. Our full suite of AI-driven solutions and services put innovation automation and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer more efficient and more productive.

As a SaaS leader we know our talent is the most important component to our success. We hire top talent and empower them to do their best work. As a division of Verizon we combine the fun and excitement of a start-up environment with the resources operational excellence and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

Role Overview

The Associate Director Sales Enablement represents a strategic leadership role responsible for improving seller performance accelerating revenue productivity and enabling frontline teams to execute with confidence. This role leads the Sales Enablement organization and partners closely with Product Marketing Sales Leadership Sales Engineering Revenue Operations Learning & Development (L&D) and Product Management to transform go-to-market strategy into measurable field execution.

This leader ensures that sellers and managers have the knowledge skills coaching tools and reinforcement necessary to consistently execute against Verizon Connects commercial priorities. Success is measured through improved seller productivity stronger manager coaching increased adoption of AI-powered selling capabilities and measurable improvements in sales effectiveness.

What Youll Be Doing

This role combines strategic leadership with operational execution to build a modern enablement organization that continuously develops sales talent scales best practices and drives field performance. The Associate Director will establish the enablement strategy while leading a team responsible for learning coaching seller readiness and performance enablement across the business.

1. Sales Enablement Strategy & Organizational Leadership

• Lead the Sales Enablement Function: Help define and execute the vision strategy and operating model for Sales Enablement ensuring programs align to company priorities and support long-term business growth.

• Develop a High-Performing Team: Coach and develop a team of enablement professionals while fostering a culture centered on continuous learning collaboration innovation and measurable business outcomes.

• Establish Enablement Governance: Create scalable processes planning rhythms and prioritization frameworks that enable consistent execution across multiple sales segments product lines and strategic initiatives.

• Partner Across the Business: Serve as the primary enablement leader supporting Sales Leadership Product Marketing Sales Engineering Revenue Operations Learning & Development (L&D) and Product teams to ensure alignment between strategy and execution.

2. Seller Readiness Learning & Performance

• Design Comprehensive Learning Programs: Partner with Learning & Development (L&D) to shape role-based onboarding experiences while designing continuous education certification programs and role-based learning journeys that improve seller confidence and long-term performance.

• Drive Sales Methodology & Skills Development: Build programs that strengthen consultative selling discovery objection handling value-based selling executive conversations negotiation and other critical selling capabilities.

• Create Scalable Reinforcement Strategies: Establish reinforcement mechanisms that move beyond one-time training by leveraging microlearning coaching activities digital learning experiences and ongoing knowledge reinforcement.

• Improve Field Execution: Partner with Product Marketing to translate product launches messaging competitive insights and strategic initiatives into practical enablement programs that drive consistent customer conversations.

3. Manager Enablement Coaching & AI Adoption

• Elevate Frontline Manager Effectiveness: Design manager enablement programs that improve coaching quality through structured coaching frameworks call review processes one-on-one coaching guides and performance conversations.

• Drive AI-Enabled Selling: Lead the adoption of emerging AI capabilities that enhance seller productivity including AI coaching AI-powered role play digital learning experiences and other emerging AI technologies that improve seller effectiveness.

• Foster a Coaching Culture: Establish consistent coaching expectations across the sales organization that reinforce learning accelerate skill development and improve overall sales performance.

4. Enablement Operations Measurement & Continuous Improvement

• Establish Performance Metrics: Define and monitor leading indicators that measure learning engagement coaching activity seller readiness AI adoption and overall enablement impact.

• Use Data to Optimize Programs: Leverage business intelligence seller feedback Gong insights sales performance metrics and program analytics to continuously refine enablement investments and priorities.

• Support Organizational Change: Lead the enablement strategy for major business initiatives by ensuring customer-facing teams are prepared to successfully adopt new products processes tools and commercial strategies.

What Were Looking For

Youll need to have:

• Education: Bachelors degree in Business Marketing Communications Organizational Development or a related field; or four or more years of experience.

• Leadership Experience: Eight or more years of experience across Sales Enablement Sales Effectiveness Sales Leadership Consulting or related business functions including three or more years leading high-performing teams.

• Enablement Expertise: Demonstrated success designing and scaling sales enablement strategies that improve seller productivity coaching and business performance within complex B2B organizations.

• Executive Communication Skills: Exceptional communication presentation facilitation and executive influence skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to build strong partnerships across Sales Product Marketing Product Management Revenue Operations Learning & Development and executive leadership teams.

• Technology & AI Fluency: Experience leveraging modern enablement technologies including conversation intelligence sales engagement platforms learning technologies AI-powered productivity tools and digital coaching platforms.

• Strategic Mindset: Ability to balance long-term strategic planning with operational execution in a dynamic fast-paced environment.

• Travel: Willingness to travel as required by the business (up to 25%).

Even Better If You Have

• Conversation Intelligence Expertise: Deep experience with Gong or similar conversation intelligence platforms and their application to sales coaching and organizational performance.

• Sales Productivity Platforms: Experience with Gong Salesloft Ambition and other sales productivity engagement coaching or performance management technologies.

• Learning & Development Expertise: Knowledge of adult learning principles instructional design methodologies learning management systems (LMS) and modern digital learning practices.

• AI Enablement Experience: Experience implementing AI-powered sales enablement capabilities that improve coaching learning content discovery AI-powered role play or seller productivity.

• Advanced Degree: MBA or Masters degree in Business Organizational Leadership Learning & Development or a related discipline.

In this hybrid role youll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

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Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical dental vision short and long term disability basic life insurance supplemental life insurance AD&D insurance identity theft protection pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year paid parental leave adoption assistance and tuition assistance plus other incentives weve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime shift differential holiday pay allowances etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year which grows with additional service. For part-timers your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the Illinois location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $125500.00 - $219000.00.