Senior Technical Enablement Manager

Chainguard; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Stock options

Meetup & summit stipends

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Technical Enablement Manager to lead enablement initiatives for Sales Engineering, Solution Architecture, and Customer Success within an enterprise SaaS/cybersecurity context. You will partner with Product, PMM, and leadership to build relevant training, certification programs, and scalable onboarding.

You will design and deliver virtual and in-person training, align content with releases, and coach teams to improve product knowledge and customer outcomes, while balancing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in Linux-based environments.
• Experience as a sales engineer or customer success manager within enterprise SaaS, preferably cybersecurity.
• 2+ years of progressive responsibility in technical enablement.
• Demonstrated success running technical enablement programs.
• Familiarity with container tech (Kubernetes, Serverless, Docker).
• Proficient with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google).
• Awareness of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG, PCI-DSS).

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with leadership in Sales Engineering and Customer Success and align content with priorities.
• Define strategy and roadmap for Technical Enablement and manage competing priorities.
• Develop demo methodologies and certification programs.
• Collaborate with Product/PMM for field readiness around releases.
• Coach sales teams on industry and product knowledge.
• Document knowledge in content management systems (e.g., Showpad).
• Provide structured feedback and coaching to technical teams.
• Design learning experiences using adult learning theory and varied formats.
• Develop onboarding programs and track progress in LMS.
• Deliver technical training in virtual and in-person settings.

Skills

Linux

Sales engineering

Customer success

Technical enablement

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Serverless

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

About The Role

Chainguard's Enablement Team is critical in strategically implementing key business initiatives to ensure that new and existing frontline team members are equipped with the information, skills, and behaviors they need to thrive and succeed in their roles.

The Technical Enablement Manager will be aligned with our technical GTM teams, including Sales Engineering, Solution Architecture, Customer Success Management and Technical Support Engineering. They will partner closely with these leaders to identify skill gaps and opportunities and provide the relevant support to ensure these teams are effectively enabled and demonstrating success in each of their core areas. In addition to supporting these teams, this role will be responsible for continuing to uplevel our sales team members on all things product and industry.

What You’ll Do

• Build robust relationships with leadership and teams in Sales Engineering and Customer Success, as well as the supporting enterprise ecosystem teams to ensure content, methodologies, and materials align with their priorities and processes.
• Define the strategy/roadmap for Technical Enablement and tactfully manage competing priorities to meet all stakeholder needs.
• Develop demo methodologies and certification programs.
• Partner with Product and Product Marketing teams for technical field readiness around upcoming releases and launches.
• Coach sales teams for continuous education on industry and product.
• Institutionalize knowledge and decisions across technical teams and ensure that knowledge is documented and easily searchable in content management solution (i.e., Showpad).
• Provide structured feedback and coaching to technical teams.
• Design optimal learning experiences using adult learning theory principles and robust learning objectives while catering to various learning styles in a virtual environment.
• Build, deliver and continually manage role-based technical onboarding programs.
• Build technical programming into LMS; track for completion and ongoing skill development and content mastery.
• Deliver technical training, along with SMEs, in virtual and in-person environments.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of hands on technical experience in Linux based environments.
• Experience as a sales engineer or customer success manager within the enterprise SaaS space, ideally within cybersecurity or application security.
• 2+ years of progressive responsibility in technical enablement experience.
• Demonstrated successful execution of technical enablement programming.
• Basic knowledge of Container technologies (Kubernetes, Serverless, Docker).
• Proficient knowledge with Cloud technology (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.).
• Awareness of compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG, PCI-DSS.

Additional Skills Needed

• Top‑notch communicator, presenter, and facilitator.
• Excellent project management skills, organization and proactive communication.
• Solid attention to detail, and a bias toward technology and action.
• Solid analytical skills, ability to pull reporting and visualize data.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and actively build solutions for gaps that are slowing or blocking our ability to achieve results.
• Expert ability to build relationships, influence, and promote a work environment focused on team development and constant coaching.
• Ability to travel.

Benefits

Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.

Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.