Location: Remote (U.S.) with extensive travel to branch locations
Travel: Frequent travel required (all travel expenses covered, including airfare, hotel, rental car, and meals)
Overview
We are seeking a Salesforce Training Specialist to join a rapidly growing organization undergoing a significant Salesforce expansion initiative. This individual will play a critical role in supporting new branch deployments, delivering end-user training, and ensuring successful Salesforce adoption across the organization.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Salesforce professional who can quickly establish credibility with business users, create engaging training programs, and provide onsite go-live support during branch launches. This role is highly visible and requires someone who can hit the ground running in a fast-paced environment.
With the organization currently operating seven branches and planning to expand to approximately fifty locations over the next several years, this position offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's Salesforce enablement strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver Salesforce training programs to end users across multiple functional groups, including:
- General Managers
- Regional Managers
- Payroll and Administrative Teams
- Travel onsite for new branch go-lives to facilitate training, user adoption, and post-launch support.
- Serve as the primary Salesforce trainer and adoption specialist for branch implementations.
- Develop and maintain training documentation, learning materials, quick-reference guides, and video content.
- Design and build a centralized Salesforce training hub utilizing Salesforce Experience Cloud.
- Create scalable onboarding programs for new employees and future branch openings.
- Conduct instructor-led, virtual, and hands-on training sessions for users with varying levels of Salesforce experience.
- Partner with business stakeholders and Salesforce administrators to identify training needs and knowledge gaps.
- Monitor user adoption and recommend strategies to improve utilization and efficiency.
- Provide ongoing support, coaching, and best practices to Salesforce users following go-live events.
- Assist with testing, change management, and rollout activities related to Salesforce enhancements.
Required Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of Salesforce experience, preferably in a Salesforce Administrator, Enablement, Adoption, or Training capacity.
- At least 1 year of experience in a dedicated training, learning and development, or user enablement role.
- Experience delivering training to business users in both individual and group settings.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform functionality and best practices.
- Exceptional presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to travel extensively, including weekly travel during branch launch periods.
- Experience creating training content, documentation, and user guides.
- Proven ability to drive user adoption and support organizational change initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Administrator Certification (preferred but not required).
- Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud.
- Experience building knowledge bases, learning portals, or training centers.
- Background supporting multi-site organizations or large-scale Salesforce deployments.
- Experience providing onsite go-live support and end-user coaching.