Director, Sales Enablement

Docker

2d • $155,400 - $222,000 • Remote

About The Position

Docker is seeking a Director, Sales Enablement, a strategic and operational leader responsible for scaling and elevating a world-class enablement function. This role will equip Docker's global sales organization, including AEs, BDRs, SEs, managers, and the channel ecosystem, with the necessary skills, playbooks, and product fluency to succeed in a dynamic market. The position involves owning the system that translates field insights into product and marketing decisions, and converts product strategy into field execution. Key responsibilities include managing ramp time, productivity, and ensuring effective message delivery. The ideal candidate will have experience scaling enablement functions in a hyper-growth environment, operating at the intersection of product, marketing, and sales with a data-driven approach.

Requirements

• 10+ years in sales enablement, sales leadership, or a combination, with at least 3 years owning a function.
• Proven track record scaling enablement from early-stage to hyper-growth in a B2B SaaS or developer tools company.
• Technically fluent, not required to be a practitioner, but capable of understanding and articulating Docker's product strategy, roadmap, and technical differentiation without leaning on a solutions engineer to translate. Able to bring others along on that same journey.
• Deep expertise in MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, and modern sales methodologies. You have trained on these, coached to them, and built inspection frameworks around them.
• Experience running the full product-to-field content loop, including closing it back to PMM with structured feedback on message quality and audience fit.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize field signals and performance data into clear enablement priorities.
• Track record of building manager-level programs, not just rep-level programs.
• Relentless problem-solver with a bias for action. You move things forward without waiting for the perfect team, the perfect tool, or the next hiring cycle; if something needs to get done, you do it.
• Strong executive presence and willingness to challenge field leadership constructively.
• Experience supporting multi-product, multi-motion sales environments; familiarity with developer tools, infrastructure, or security is a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with developer tools, infrastructure, or security.

Responsibilities

• Own the full bidirectional content loop: convert product strategy, PMM output, and competitive intelligence into field-ready playbooks and stage-mapped sales content, and close the loop back to PMM with structured field feedback on what landed and what didn't.
• Report on enablement quality: did the messaging resonate with the audience? Capture field feedback, anecdotally and through data, and surface it systematically back to PMM.
• Maintain centralized, versioned content repositories with clear ownership, refresh cadences, and expiration standards.
• Keep pace with Docker's rapidly evolving product strategy and AI governance motion: the field needs content that reflects where the business is today, while also being forward-thinking.
• Build and own a content and certification framework for the channel ecosystem, ensuring partners have the product fluency, messaging alignment, and sales readiness to represent Docker effectively in the field.
• Partner closely with PMM to prioritize and sequence content development, ensuring enablement is running a deliberate roadmap aligned to business priorities, not reacting to an ad hoc request queue.
• Act as the conduit between what the field is experiencing in the trenches and what the data shows about performance, patterns, and gaps.
• Synthesize qualitative field feedback (what reps are hearing, what's stalling deals, what messaging isn't sticking) with quantitative signals (ramp, conversion, attainment) to set enablement priorities.
• Bring that synthesis to PMM, product leadership, and sales leadership in a form that drives decisions, not just informs them.
• Define and own the common language used for pipeline inspection, deal qualification, and forecast methodology across the global sales organization.
• Ensure MEDDPICC and Command of the Message are embedded into how reps think and how managers inspect, not just how they are trained.
• Build enablement infrastructure that connects sales stage definitions to the field's working vocabulary.
• Design and deploy structured programs to build consistency in how front-line managers inspect pipeline, coach reps, and develop talent.
• Make manager enablement a first-class investment, not an afterthought left to individual discretion.
• Partner with sales leadership to establish shared coaching standards and cadences across regions.
• Own ramp time and time-to-productivity as primary success metrics vs. basing success on training completion rates. Evaluate and determine the most effective delivery model and content architecture, whether live sessions, self-serve resources, or a blended approach. assess what exists today in tools like MindTickle and The Current for impact and currency, and build a system where the right content reaches the right person at the right moment in their development.
• Deliver world-class onboarding for every function. Build a holistic new hire experience that doesn't end at onboarding. Connect initial training to Command of the Message and Docker’s structured career progression framework, with development milestones that evolve by tenure and role, including integration with the Docker Career Acceleration Program (CAP).
• Move fast: onboarding programs should be sharp and continuously improving, not perpetually in progress.
• Design content and certification programs for new hire enablement, CoM, and CAP in a way that is structured and self-contained, so when sales leadership is needed to contribute, the ask is specific, time-bounded, and worth their investment.
• Build a data-driven enablement function with KPIs tied to business outcomes: ramp time, quota attainment, win rates, stage conversion, and productivity.
• Establish a culture of accountability, for the enablement team and for the field, where impact is visible and programs are continuously improved based on evidence.
• Report to sales leadership and the VP of Revenue Operations with the credibility and data to influence decisions.
• Operate as a genuine business partner to sales leadership – assertive, direct, and willing to challenge the field and functional partners when standards are not being met.
• Embed enablement into key sales moments: pipeline reviews, QBRs, deal strategy sessions, product launches, and territory changes.
• Hold field leadership accountable to the standards, frameworks, and inspection disciplines that enablement puts in place, and ensure those standards are maintained.

Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
• PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
• Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
• Docker Swag
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
• Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed