Autodesk, Inc

Senior Director, Sales Enablement

Autodesk, Inc$201K — $327K *
Business Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in go-to-market enablement or revenue operations in B2B enterprise software
  • 7+ years in a leadership role managing large, cross-functional enablement teams
  • Proven record of building global enablement programs that enhance seller performance
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise sales methodologies and how to incorporate them into programs
  • Familiarity with enterprise SaaS sales motions, including subscription and usage-based models
  • Experience with designing and executing global enablement events
  • Exceptional communication skills for translating complex concepts into actionable narratives

Responsibilities

  • Develop and oversee a multi-year global enablement strategy aligned with company priorities
  • Assess knowledge gaps and create targeted learning programs
  • Establish enablement goals and report progress to leadership
  • Evaluate and integrate new enablement technologies to enhance performance
  • Collaborate globally to share best practices and solutions
  • Ensure all sales and support teams are fully equipped for customer interactions
  • Lead the design and implementation of a global onboarding program

Benefits

  • Access to advanced training and professional development programs
  • Dynamic work environment with a focus on innovation and technology
  • Opportunities for career advancement within a global organization
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
  • Participation in high-impact, strategic initiatives
Full Job Description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98424

Position Overview
We are looking for an experienced, innovative enablement leader with a track record of building and scaling global sales, customer success, and channel enablement programs at large, high-tech companies, preferably in SaaS. You are passionate about improving the performance of people and teams, and you bring both the strategic vision and operational discipline to make it happen.

In this role, you will lead an organization of 50+ geographically dispersed enablement professionals spanning program management, learning & development, events & training, and coaching. You will own the full stack of field-facing enablement—taking existing programs and building them into broader programmatic solutions, while continuously raising the bar with new approaches. This includes harnessing AI and modern enablement technology to personalize learning, scale content production, and give every seller faster access to the right knowledge at the right moment. Your team ensures that every seller, customer success manager, and channel partner is equipped to engage confidently and effectively across the entire customer lifecycle.

If you are a proven enablement leader with the vision and experience to build world-class, customer-centric programs in a global SaaS company, this is the home for you.

Responsibilities

Enablement Strategy & Global Program Design

  • Develop and own a multi-year global enablement strategy aligned to Autodesk's priorities across cloud, portfolio expansion, and platform growth, including oversight of multi-million-dollar budgets and investment decisions

  • Assess knowledge and skill gaps across sales, customer success, and channel partner teams; translate findings into targeted learning programs and structured competency frameworks

  • Establish worldwide enablement goals, manage team activities against those goals, and deliver bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly progress communications and reports to leadership

  • Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging enablement technologies—including AI-powered coaching, content generation, and learning personalization—to keep Autodesk's enablement function at the cutting edge

  • Collaborate across global regions to share best practices, lessons learned, and region-specific solutions for accelerating ramp-to-quota and growing deal sizes

  • Build and maintain executive alignment with CRO, Sales, and Customer Success leadership—regularly presenting enablement strategy, program performance, and investment rationale to shape how the business prioritizes and funds field readiness

Field Readiness & Content Operationalization

  • Own delivery of customer-centric enablement, ensuring all selling and support teams are fully equipped across the full sales and customer success lifecycle

  • Translate market narrative into field-ready assets—sales playbooks, objection handling guides, discovery frameworks, seller-ready demos, and role-based learning paths—leveraging AI-assisted content production to deliver at speed and scale

  • Work with sales, customer success, and channel leadership to develop, execute, optimize, and measure the impact of enablement programs on business outcomes

  • Serve as the primary enablement liaison representing enablement needs in GTM planning and cross-functional prioritization forums

Events, Training & SKO Orchestration

  • Design and own the global onboarding program for new sales, customer success, and channel partner roles—covering curriculum, delivery, reinforcement, and time-to-productivity measurement

  • Coordinate and orchestrate the full portfolio of enablement events: bootcamps, workshops, webinars, and segment-specific tracks for worldwide sales, customer support, and channel audiences

  • Create and deploy key components of Sales Kick-Off meetings—both the large annual launch event and periodic mini-SKOs targeting new solution or business offering launches

Team & Org Leadership

  • Lead and develop an organization of 50+ geographically dispersed, global enablement professionals spanning program management, learning & development, events & training, and coaching disciplines

  • Define team charter, operating model, and resource plan; manage vendor and agency relationships for content production at scale

  • Develop talent through structured coaching, clear OKRs, and exposure to cross-functional GTM workstreams across all regions


Minimum Qualifications

  • 12+ years in GTM enablement, sales strategy, or revenue operations in a B2B enterprise software company

  • 7+ years in a Director or above people leadership role with direct management of large (30+), geographically dispersed, cross-functional enablement organizations

  • Demonstrated track record of building and scaling global enablement programs that measurably reduced seller ramp time, improved quota attainment, or drove channel performance

  • Strong familiarity with enterprise sales methodologies and the ability to embed them into enablement programs, playbooks, and coaching frameworks

  • Deep familiarity with the enterprise SaaS sales motion, including subscription, enterprise agreements, land-and-expand, and usage-based models across sales, customer success, and channel partner audiences

  • Experience designing and executing events (SKO, launch readiness, bootcamps) for global field audiences

  • Proven ability to influence senior and C-level executives—building trust, shaping strategic decisions, and securing buy-in for enablement priorities without direct authority

  • Exceptional communication skills; able to translate complex enablement programs into clear business impact narratives for executive and board-level audiences

  • Proficiency with modern sales enablement platforms, CRM, and analytics tools; working knowledge of AI applications in enablement, including content generation, coaching automation, and learning personalization

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading enablement through a major business model or go-to-market transformation (e.g., perpetual to subscription, product-led to sales-led, or direct to channel expansion)

  • Background spanning both direct and channel sales motions in a complex, multi-product enterprise environment

  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree

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About Autodesk, Inc

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San Francisco building.
Learn more about Autodesk, Inc
Size
12,600 employees
Market Cap
$40.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.2 billion
Founded
1982
5 Year Trend
+16.6%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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