Sales Enablement Manager, Nextdoor

$120-175k

+ Equity grant. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date

Expert level
Chicago
Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

Job no longer available

Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Job no longer available

$120-175k

+ Equity grant. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date

Expert level
Chicago

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Company mission

Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Sales, Advertising, Marketing, or a related field. Master's degree preferred
  • A minimum of 10 years of experience in sales, sales enablement, or related roles
  • Proven experience in developing and implementing successful sales enablement programs focused on soft skills and manager development
  • Strong understanding of sales methodologies, sales processes, and customer engagement strategies
  • Excellent facilitation and presentation skills with the ability to engage and inspire diverse audiences
  • Exceptional project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
  • Proficiency in utilizing various learning technologies and platforms for training delivery
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to align enablement programs with business objectives and drive measurable results
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use data to drive decision-making
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization
  • Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently and thrive in a remote, hybrid, or in-office work environment
  • Experience in sales enablement skills program and execution development, including manager or leader coaching or development
  • Facilitation/training delivery experience
  • Sales experience is strongly preferred

Desirable

  • Social media or adtech platform sales enablement experience
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently with no resources or budget, leveraging resourcefulness, creativity, and initiative
  • Ability to distill ambiguity, with strong organizational skills and detail-oriented focus
  • Experience in go-to-market strategy and cross-functional collaboration
  • Advanced communication and presentation skills
  • Deep understanding and experience with social and native advertising
  • Successful track record of developing strategic relationships with key stakeholders
  • A passion for community building, to inspire a more inclusive team and diversity of thought, both at Nextdoor and in your own neighborhoods

What the job involves

  • You will support the entire Revenue Organization while prioritizing the Sales team
  • Nextdoor’s Sales team is a diverse, hungry, and strategic group of neighbors focused on partnering with enterprise and midmarket brands to connect them with our community of members through our growing portfolio of advertising products
  • The team culture mirrors the larger business focus, relying on building trusted connections both internally as well as with our partners in order to drive campaigns and executions that add value to our members lives while simultaneously driving results for our brand partners
  • We believe that in order to succeed we must attract and develop smart, coachable, problem solvers; while also creating an environment where they can thrive and grow
  • We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Sales Enablement Manager to join our Sales Enablement team and lead the development and execution of soft skills programming, GTM learning experiences, manager development, and our overall Sales Effectiveness Strategy
  • Reporting to the Head of Sales Enablement, you will primarily lead initiatives to strengthen the capabilities of our managers and leaders, ensuring they possess the skills, knowledge, and resources required to effectively lead and inspire their teams
  • You will play a crucial part in enhancing the overall effectiveness of our Sales team and driving the success of our go-to-market efforts across the entire revenue organization
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive sales enablement strategy and roadmap that focuses on soft skills programming and manager/leadership development
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Sales, Account Management, Measurement, Revenue Operations, Product Marketing, and Product teams, to understand business objectives and tailor enablement programs to meet the organization's needs
  • Identify skill gaps and training needs within the Sales organization and develop relevant programs to address those gaps
  • Design, deliver, and continuously improve soft skills training programs, including but not limited to communication skills, effective discovery and meeting prep, relationship building, benefits-based selling, negotiation skills, and objection handling
  • Create and execute manager and leadership development programs that empower our leaders to drive performance, provide effective coaching, and build high-performing teams across the revenue organization
  • Utilize a variety of training methodologies, such as e-learning, workshops, webinars, and coaching sessions, to ensure an engaging and impactful learning experience for participants
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of training initiatives through metrics, feedback, and assessment tools, and make data-driven adjustments to enhance program outcomes
  • Collaborate with the Revenue Operations team to develop and maintain a measurement strategy, feedback loop process, and best practices to drive consistency and improve sales performance
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to support go-to-market efforts, providing input on messaging, positioning, and sales collateral development
  • Stay updated on industry trends, sales methodologies, and emerging technologies to continuously enhance the sales enablement strategy
  • Build and manage relationships with internal subject matter experts to regularly co-develop and contribute to learning initiatives

Our take

Nextdoor is a private social network that aims to encourage social interaction between neighbours and make people aware of crime in their area.

The social network has had huge success in the United States and has expanded internationally, with Nextdoor now present in more than 242,000 neighbourhoods around the world.

The company's main competition comes from local Facebook groups, which have become less and less popular due to their comparative lack of functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building for neighborhoods has helped them to build a better product, and their advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$129.1m

Dec 2017

$78.8m

Total funding: $207.9m

Company benefits

  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • 12 weeks of parental, family or medical leave
  • Global end of year shutdown
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Earn trust every day
  • Invest in community
  • Customer obsessed
  • Think big
  • Experiment and learn quickly
  • Act like an owner

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Prakash Janakiraman

(Advisor & Co-founder)

Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before working in engineering roles at Google and as the co-founder of Fanbase.com

David Weisen

(Engineer & Co-founder)

Worked as a software engineer at Google, Fanbase.com and Open Harbour after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science

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