Palo Alto Networks

Enterprise Sales Enablement Lead

Palo Alto Networks$151K — $245K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in designing and delivering sales capability programs with measurable outcomes.
  • Experience integrating generative AI in sales processes for enhanced performance.
  • Previous role as a quota-carrying sales professional and frontline sales leader.
  • Proven track record influencing senior sales professionals.
  • Expertise in coaching through live sales opportunities and creating relevant learning experiences.
  • Strong knowledge of methodologies like MEDDPICC and Value Selling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead impactful virtual and in-person workshops to enhance sellers' skills in real-time.
  • Incorporate AI tools into learning curriculums for effective deal preparation.
  • Design and optimize learning tracks focused on advanced negotiation and sales strategy.
  • Collaborate with sales leaders to connect training with ongoing sales opportunities.
  • Assess training impact by measuring behavioral changes and sales performance.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility with a collaborative team culture.
  • Access to modern AI tools and resources for professional development.
  • Opportunities for continuous professional growth and learning.
  • Engagement in a culture that emphasizes trust and accountability.
  • Participation in high-impact workshops and training sessions.
Full Job Description
This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

This role enables field sales professionals to strengthen critical selling skills, adopt AI enabled practices, align learning to active pipeline, and improve measurable sales performance across Commercial, BDR, and renewal motions. You will create, refine, and apply curriculum that reflects real world field challenges and evolving go to market priorities, ensuring learning translates into deal progression and customer retention.

Focused on driving AI augmented sales performance and behavior change within live opportunities, this role goes beyond traditional training. Success requires significant field experience and the credibility to influence senior sellers and sales leaders.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead immersive, high impact workshops, both virtual and in person, that coach sellers through live opportunities and strengthen value selling, executive engagement, discovery, negotiation, and MEDDPICC execution.
  • Integrate modern AI tools and generative learning platforms into the curriculum to scale practice, streamline deal preparation, and drive measurable improvements in field efficiency and productivity for BDR, Commercial, and closing roles.
  • Design, build, and optimize specialized learning tracks and continuous professional development programs focused on complex deal strategy, advanced negotiation, competitive differentiation, renewal optimization and buyer persona mastery for enterprise sales professionals.
  • Partner with sales leadership to align learning with go to market priorities and connect it directly to live opportunities, pipeline reviews, expansion targets, and forecast accuracy.
  • Measure business impact by evaluating behavioral change, tool adoption, opportunity quality, and sales performance outcomes.


Qualifications
  • Eight or more years of experience designing and delivering commercial sales capability programs focused on applied selling skills and measurable performance improvement.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools into sales workflows, learning programs, or coaching experiences to improve seller preparation, practice, productivity, and deal execution.
  • Prior experience as both a quota carrying enterprise or commercial seller responsible for closing complex deals and a frontline sales leader accountable for revenue, pipeline health, and forecast accuracy.
  • Proven ability to facilitate high stakes sessions for senior sales professionals and influence frontline sales directors and vice presidents.
  • Demonstrated success coaching sellers through live opportunities and translating field experience into practical, segment specific learning spanning new business development (BDR) to customer expansion.
  • Deep working knowledge of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC, Value Selling, Challenger, or Command of the Message, with the ability to teach and apply them in real sales situations.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with complex enterprise sales cycles in SaaS or cybersecurity.
  • Experience helping sales organizations navigate significant go to market transformations, including AI adoption or platform based selling.


Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$151,700.00 - $245,300.00/yr

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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