Sales Enablement Strategist - Local Sales (Remote)
Yelp · United States · 2 wk ago
RemoteRemoteAdvertisingFull-time
About the role
The Sales Enablement Specialist is an elevated individual contributor role that blends end-to-end project ownership with advanced training facilitation and content/program management.
Responsibilities
- Project Management & Execution (40%)
- Own projects from start to finish: Scope, build, test, and launch enablement projects, utilizing the RASCI model to define roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority across stakeholders.
- Manage timelines and priorities: Outline steps required to complete projects, prioritize across competing initiatives, and utilize project roadmaps and task trackers to achieve timelines with limited guidance.
- Capture and articulate requirements: Define requirements for tech pilots, new tooling, and solutions; communicate clearly to business partners and cross-functional teams.
- Maintain the process for collaboration with Enablement Leads, Sales Leadership (Managers/Directors), and cross-functional partners to ensure a healthy feedback loop.
- Training & Facilitation (30%)
- Facilitate advanced and ongoing training: Lead continued education and advanced sales training sessions for veteran reps and leadership audiences, drawing on personal sales and/or management experience to bring credibility and authority to the room.
- Make learning engaging and deliver with excellence: Make learning fun, engaging, and relevant while facilitating sales trainings. Leverage a variety of delivery methods including facilitation, social learning, gamification, demonstration, role-plays, and e-learning.
- Facilitate to varying audiences: Lead both rep-level and leadership-level training sessions with confidence and adaptability, adjusting depth and tone to the audience.
- Share training feedback and data trends: Share insights and training effectiveness findings in ongoing Enablement meetings with the goal of continually improving programming.
- Content Creation & Program Support (30%)
- Ongoing programs & content creation: Own creation and maintenance of programming and learning journeys. Build new trainings as needed.
- Learning technology administration: Manage ongoing implementation of processes and training materials via Yelp's learning management system (Exceed).
- Actively research new tech/tooling for Enablement: Manage survey results, track completion rates, and pull reports to compile data for the sales leadership team. Make data-driven recommendations: Provide recommendations for ongoing maintenance and updates of programming you own. Partner with Training Directors & Enablement Leads to make improvements to programs.
What It Takes to Succeed
- Demonstrated sales acumen that lends credibility when training experienced reps and leaders.
- Ability to reference past sales experience to enrich content and build trust with learners.
- Strong project management skills: Proven ability to scope, plan, and execute projects end-to-end using frameworks like RASCI, with limited guidance.
- Strong working knowledge of Yelp Ads.
- Engaging presenter and confident public speaker virtually: Well-spoken, fast thinker, and confident managing a room of experienced sellers and leaders.
- Strong technical skills to support remote facilitation (Google Meet), AI-educated with demonstrated usage, CRM (Salesforce) expertise, and eagerness to research and support new enablement tech/tooling.
- High level of emotional intelligence: Able to receive, internalize, and implement feedback constructively.
What You'll Get
- Effective your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental 15 days PTO (accrual begins on date of hire and increases with 2+ years of tenure thereafter), 12 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday.
- Work from home reimbursement.
- Flexible spending account.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
Pay
The target base salary is $100-110k annually. You may also be offered an annual bonus.
Schedule
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