Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales Engineering at Fivetran

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We are looking for a proven leader to join our Sales Engineering team to oversee the Enterprise Sales Engineering team at Fivetran. As a Senior Manager of Sales Engineering at Fivetran, you will manage a team of approximately 6-8 Sales Engineers. This team specializes in achieving the “technical win” in interacting with technical and business stakeholders across a multitude of verticals. In this strategic role, you will adopt and optimize the Fivetran playbook to maximize revenue growth while partnering closely with Fivetran Account Executives, Account Management, Marketing, and Partner Alliances, therefore interpersonal engagement and orchestration is essential. In addition, you will develop deep relationships with our technology and implementation partners to accelerate market share capture and joint success.

The ideal candidate will be a high impact individual capable of driving outstanding business results & continual employee development. This leader is fully responsible for managing the team to generate exceptional results among your direct reports, accelerate the progression of business through the sales journey, and drive the technical win.

This is a full-time position based remotely in France, Ireland or the UK reporting to the Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA.

What You'll Do

Implement and optimize strategies to maximize revenue growth
Ensure that direct reports are providing timely and accurate technical leadership in the sales process
Coach your team members to maximize performance and prepare them for future roles
Affirm team is documenting opportunities to drive prospect engagements and communicate with in the team
Be driven by data and affirm that we are capturing data for continuous forecast improvement
Help your team win technically within key accounts
Collaborate with Sales Leadership on strategies and tactics to win new and maintain customers
Communicate with your leadership and the sales leadership team the progression of opportunities and forecast technical wins
Meet all defined goals and metrics
Communicate and present complex solutions to C-level executives
Provide market feedback to management team to optimize sales strategy and positioning
Be an escalation point for key deals in the pre-sales process
Work with product management and engineering teams to prioritize enhancements and technical issues

Skills We're Looking For

Experience in Enterprise Sales Engineering as a Manager or Senior/Lead Sales Engineer for a SaaS platform
Best in class communication skills
Superior technical skills
Proven experience collaborating with a peer Sales Director to mutually drive successful sales outcomes
Extensive experience in Databases, Replication, Cloud Warehouses, and APIs
Proven ability to lead a team of technically-minded direct reports
A coach-first mentality

Personal Attributes We're Looking For

Honesty/integrity: Does not cut corners, earns and maintains trust, does what is RIGHT
Analytical skills: Able to create and leverage data insights to draw insightful conclusions
Positive Attitude & Enthusiasm: Exhibits passion and a ‘can-do’ attitude
Strategic Thinker: Ability to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way
Ability to hire and develop ‘A’ players: Source, select, and sell top performers to join
Ability to coach and develop team members: Coach team members in their current roles while also preparing them for career advancement
Flexibility/adaptability: Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions
Detail-oriented and technical: Aptitude for understanding and teaching our technology
Calm under pressure: Maintains stable performance under pressure or stress
Creative/innovative: Generate new and innovative approaches to problems
Listening skills: Lets others speak and seeks to understand their view points
Openness to criticism/ideas: often solicits feedback and reacts calmly

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Perks and Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance*
Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
RSU stock grants*
Professional development and training opportunities
Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
Monthly cell phone stipend
Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales Engineering

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