Technical Enablement Director

Sentry
San Francisco, CA
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Geared toward technical training professionals comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and content creation, with a focus on application monitoring and a full-time presence in San Francisco.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years in technical training and a passion for developer tools and SDLC.
    — “5+ year experience in technical training development and delivery
  • Individuals who can bridge technical product knowledge with customer-facing enablement.
    — “You are part product evangelist, part multimedia content producer, part teacher who loves to inspire and educate customers
  • Professionals experienced in creating structured training plans and measurable metrics.
    — “Ability to think out of the box to develop structured training plans, actions, and measurable metrics

Things to consider

  • The role involves both internal and external responsibilities, requiring adaptability across audiences.
    — “This is a uniquely strategic and operational role with a mix of both internal and external responsibilities
  • Candidates must be prepared to work closely with multiple departments, including Engineering and Product.
    — “Work in close partnership with sales and marketing to track progress of leads within the Sentry University

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in creating and managing virtual learning platforms and certification programs.
    — “Own the Sentry University virtual learning platform: prepare the curriculum, build the different learning units, create the content, and manage the overall user experience
  • Emphasize your ability to translate technical concepts into compelling narratives for diverse audiences.
    — “You are a dynamic, thoughtful, creative professional who can translate technology with compelling stories
  • Showcase your collaboration with cross-functional teams in past roles.
    — “Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders including Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Design
  • Demonstrate your ability to create instructor-led training curricula for both virtual and in-person delivery.
    — “Create and deliver an instructor-led training curriculum that would inspire customers to use our product, through virtual group training, and in-person workshops
  • Include examples of how you've used multimedia tools to enhance learning experiences.
    — “Experience leveraging various learning tools and media to provide optimal learning
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful training programs
  • high customer satisfaction
Typical background
technical product experiencetraining and education

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical ExpertiseProduct EvangelismTraining And Educational ProgramsSDLC

Preferred

Multimedia Content ProductionInstructor-led Training

Stack & domain

Software DevelopmentProduct ManagementCustomer SuccessTraining And Development

About the role

Original posting from Sentry via Ashby

ABOUT SENTRY

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.

Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the role

Sentry is looking for a talented Technical Enablement Director to help drive usage and adoption of our platform through education and enablement. This position will be responsible for strategy, planning, and end-to-end execution of training and educational programs, both internal for our employees, and external for our customers and partners.

You are part product evangelist, part multimedia content producer, part teacher who loves to inspire and educate customers. You are a dynamic, thoughtful, creative professional who can translate technology with compelling stories, and uses analytical skills to drive continuous improvement.

You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders including Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Design. This is a uniquely strategic and operational role with a mix of both internal and external responsibilities.

This role requires strong technical expertise and a deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and related technologies. If you’re a technologist with experience working with technical products in customer-facing roles—and you’re eager to join a fast-growing team delivering real value through an exceptional product—we’d love to meet you.

In this role you will:

  • Become a Sentry product expert: be intimately familiar all product capabilities, and how how customers are using the product
  • Own the Sentry University virtual learning platform: prepare the curriculum, build the different learning units, create the content, and manage the overall user experience
  • Create a comprehensive training strategy to enable our customers to quickly ramp on our platform, and accelerate their TTV
  • Build out and operationalize an engaging certification program for customers, partners, and employees.
  • Design and own all end-user training content that will be used by CSMs and SEs to deliver to our customers and prospects
  • Create and deliver an instructor-led training curriculum that would inspire customers to use our product, through virtual group training, and in-person workshops (when it’s safe to travel!)
  • Work in close partnership with sales and marketing to track progress of leads within the Sentry University
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure the enablement materials are always up to date, continuously update as needed, and meet standards of company branding, messaging and design.
  • Develop programs and training materials to drive the onboarding and ongoing technical enablement of our technical customer facing teams for topics related to our space (logging, monitoring, cloud, etc).
  • Develop KPIs that measure adoption and effectiveness of the training programs.

You’ll love this job if you:

  • Enjoy talking about technology and interfacing with engineers and engineering leaders
  • Are looking to make an impact in the life of our customers through teaching them how use our product to achieve their business and technical goals
  • Appreciate working on a variety of projects with different stakeholders
  • Like being “in the middle of it all”, working across the organization to move the product forward
  • Have a fast-paced, results-driven mindset
  • Love developer tools, open-source, and/or all things software development life cycle

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge in the application monitoring field
  • 5+ year experience in technical training development and delivery
  • BA/BS degree in CS or Computer Engineering-related field or equivalent experience is mandatory
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills with an ability to build rapport and credibility with technical and business audiences
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Significant experience working with customers and partners, both remotely and in person
  • Ability to think out of the box to develop structured training plans, actions, and measurable metrics
  • Experience leveraging various learning tools and media to provide optimal learning

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT SENTRY

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

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Source: Sentry careers (Ashby)

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