Sales Messaging Director

ADP

$130K — $155K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in sales enablement, sales strategy, product marketing, or related fields.
  • Strong executive communication skills for effective stakeholder management.
  • Ability to leverage insights and analytics to inform go-to-market (GTM) strategies.
  • Experience with AI-enabled selling tools.
  • Preferred people leadership experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own Down Market GTM messaging strategy.
  • Develop comprehensive messaging architecture and value propositions.
  • Create talk tracks, presentations, and sales plays to support sellers.
  • Align sales messaging with business priorities and campaigns.
  • Translate market insights into actionable messaging for sales teams.
  • Drive alignment on AI messaging to ensure seller engagement.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment.
  • Travel 10-15% as required to support sales initiatives.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead strategic sales initiatives across multiple business units.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Sales Leadership and AI specialists.
  • Direct management of the Messaging Insights Analyst to influence growth.
  • Focus on using insights to enhance seller conversations and effectiveness.
  • Dynamic role in shaping the GTM narrative to drive revenue growth.
Full Job Description
Sales Messaging Director - Sales Messaging Intelligence

Position Summary:

The Sales Messaging Director serves as the strategic owner of the GTM narrative across HRO, SBS, RS, and INS. This role partners with Sales Leadership, Product Marketing, Marketing, Sales Operations, and AI teams to create evidence-based sales messaging that drives pipeline, seller effectiveness, and revenue growth. The role directly manages the Messaging Insights Analyst, and supports the Down Market.

What They Own:
  • Sales messaging based on BU priorities
  • Seller deliverables including gaining access content, presentations and talk tracks
  • Alignment with Marketing and Product Marketing
  • How sellers use AI to drive messaging
  • Incorporation of vertical, persona, product and competitor insights

How They Operate:
  • Primary partner to BU Sales Leadership
  • Lead quarterly BU Messaging Performance Reviews with Sales Ops
  • Partner with Insights Analyst to convert insights into decisions and actions
  • People leader for the Insights Analyst
  • Partner with AI Specialists to ensure AI reflects the segment narrative

Success Measures:
  • Pipeline and conversion lift
  • Seller adoption of deliverables
  • BU leader confidence and alignment
  • Performance and development of the Insights Analyst

Key Responsibilities:
  • Own Down Market GTM messaging strategy
  • Develop messaging architecture and value propositions
  • Create talk tracks, presentations, objection handling and sales plays
  • Align sales messaging with business priorities and campaigns
  • Translate market insights into actionable messaging
  • Drive AI messaging alignment and seller adoption
  • Lead cross-functional stakeholder alignment
  • 10-15% travel required

Required Qualifications:
  • A college degree is nice to have but not required. What's more important is having the skills to do the job. Other forms of acceptable experience include:
  • 7+ years in sales enablement, sales strategy, product marketing, messaging or related disciplines
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience leveraging insights and analytics to influence GTM strategy


Preferred Qualifications:
  • People leadership experience preferred
  • Experience with AI-enabled selling tools and modern sales technologies preferred

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