Global Partner Enablement Manager, Senior

| Austin | Hybrid
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What Is Cool About The Job

This person is responsible for driving partner pipeline through enablement programs for WP Engines valued partners. He/She will ensure partner sales and technical teams understand WP Engines' value proposition as the top digital experience platform for WordPress, as well as have the knowledge and skills they need to find opportunities and sell WP Engine!

This is a significant role in the Agency Organization, and you will be required to have a good mix of abilities that include: understand and explain multiple products' value propositions and integration capabilities, ability to be a persuasive public speaker and product authority, and a desire to drive significant growth in our business!

The Day to Day:

  • Establish a trusted/strategic advisor relationship with the agency ecosystem from small to large agencies.
  • Independently provide ongoing and proactive technical leadership to valued account agencies with little direction.
  • Build a deep understanding of agencies' technical, business, & operational needs.
  • Analyze the agencies' functional requirements to standardize on the WP Engine platform in the short term, while keeping agency partners in mind when crafting new products and services in the long term.
  • Establish critical goals or other key performance indicators for each agency; we aid the client in achieving their goals both short and long term.
  • Conduct workshops, business reviews and actively suggest solutions to common agency challenges.
  • Coach agencies to be product authorities and train their teams on WP Engine's standard methodologies, so they become increasingly self-sufficient.
  • Influence marketing with messaging, positioning, areas of interest/concern by agency technical teams and agency-facing content/materials.

Your Expertise and Passion

  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
  • Experience presenting at conferences, meetups, and webinars, and contributing to developer communities.
  • The ability to convey complex technical concepts to a wide variety of personas, from developers to CxOs.
  • Experience working with pre-sales, post-sales, partner, and engineering teams to support field activities, and to help shape the evolution of a broad set of products and product capabilities.
  • A willingness to travel and work autonomously
  • Track record of encouraging people through social media, technical articles, seminars, etc.
  • Common enterprise integrations
  • Software development lifecycles and standard methodologies
  • Cloud storage / computing - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS concepts
  • Experience with SaaS, logging, monitoring, and medium to large scale architecture
  • Content distribution / CDN
  • Developer workflow tools including CI (continuous integration) - Git, Gulp, Grunt, Jenkins
  • Web technologies - WordPress, SQL scripting, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SMTP, DNS, TCP/IP, TLS/SSL, DHCP, SSH
  • Experience with and knowledge of CMS: Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Alfresco, Drupal, Joomla
  • Web-hosting infrastructure - networking, server set-up and administration, firewalls, web servers

The Perks & Benefits

  • Compensation (We offer market competitive salaries)
  • Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
  • Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
  • 401(k) (Make the most of retirement)
  • Life and Disability Insurance (100% Paid Life, STD, LTD, and AD&D)
  • Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn't like time off)
  • Transportation (Downtown parking or commuter reimbursement)
  • Lunch (Provided Monday – Thursday)
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Location

WP Engine is on the corner of 5th and Lavaca, blocks away from the Colorado River and Congress Avenue.

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