Sr. Director, Learning and Enablement

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Sr. Dir, EMEA Learning and Enablement 

The Databricks Learning and Enablement team is on a mission to upskill Data and AI professionals in our customer organizations to use Databricks and accelerate customer success and outcomes. We are looking for a Regional Leader to lead our Enablement organization. You will manage and develop a regional team that is highly skilled in enabling various audience segments that influence the adoption and democratization of data and AI including sellers, technical pre-sales, service delivery, partners and customers, ensuring they have what they need when they need it.

You will work with many cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, Field Engineering, and Professional Services account teams to support and advocate for onboarding and ongoing talent transformation needs. Your team will ensure that our training is achieving business objectives, as would be expected given the size of the local market. Balancing a combination of internal and external enablement your team is critical to the success of the regional business. 

The Learning and Enablement team is seen throughout Databricks as a strategic driver for increasing adoption and success. 

The impact you will have:

• Create a vision and strategy for enablement to accelerate the growth in EMEA business.
• Drive all enablement initiatives in the EMEA region for customers, a broad user base, channel partners, and the Databricks Field team. 
• Develop a growing team of enablement specialists driving deeper impact on the EMEA business
• Bring your creativity to the table, developing cutting-edge learning strategies that elevate the customer experience. Develop, lead and enable continuous development of the regional team of high performing Customer enablement teams that support customer success through enablement driving upskilling and reskilling talent.
• Boost field productivity and manage channel growth, taking our organization to the next level through targeted and measured enablement activities for Sales, Field engineering and the entire partner ecosystem supporting EMEA business.

What we look for:

• 7 - 10 years of people leadership experience in Learning, customer success and/or sales functions with direct management of enablement and progressive increase in the scope of the role.
• Strategic mindset and proven track record of driving organization growth through people enablement and innovative plans.
• Deep understanding of sales and consumption operating model for a technology platform enterprise software.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate technical and sales teams in a high growth environment managing a broad set of stakeholders.