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Recruiting Marketing (must) Sales (must) Excel Onboarding Training (must)

What this posting asks for

Level: Manager — The title says "Director".

Main responsibilities

• Report directly to the VP of Sales and lead a team of 6–8 exceptional Sales Directors focused on driving growth in a fast-moving market.
• Cultivate a collaborative, high-performance culture where your team can excel, innovate, and grow.
• Establish and refine onboarding and ramp-up processes to ensure new team members are set up for success.
• Help shape and continuously improve our Enterprise sales playbook.
• Foster alignment and partnership with cross-functional teams including Customer Success, Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Professional Services.
• Define and execute strategic plans for some of our largest and most complex accounts.
• What You’ll Need
• Has 6+ years of experience selling a technical product, with a proven track record of success.
• Brings 3+ years of first line sales leadership experience leading high-performing software sales teams.
• Is comfortable with complex technical concepts and excels at breaking them down for others.

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.” · “dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights.” · “Cultivate a collaborative, high-performance culture where your team can excel, innovate, and grow.”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Leadership and mentoring Core
  In the posting: “You’ll be responsible for hiring, coaching, and managing a team of Sales Directors who oversee the entire customer journey—from Discovery and Evaluation to I…” · “Report directly to the VP of Sales and lead a team of 6–8 exceptional Sales Directors focused on driving growth in a fast-moving market.” · “Brings 3+ years of first line sales leadership experience leading high-performing software sales teams.”
  Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
• Customer focus Core
  In the posting: “With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.” · “As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our…” · “You’ll be responsible for hiring, coaching, and managing a team of Sales Directors who oversee the entire customer journey—from Discovery and Evaluation to I…”
  Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.” · “Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.” · “Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through…”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity.” · “With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.” · “We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Teamwork and collaboration Core
  In the posting: “Cultivate a collaborative, high-performance culture where your team can excel, innovate, and grow.” · “Foster alignment and partnership with cross-functional teams including Customer Success, Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Professional Services.”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Stakeholder management Core
  In the posting: “Foster alignment and partnership with cross-functional teams including Customer Success, Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Professional Services.” · “Feels a strong sense of alignment with our core company values and mission.”
  Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
• Adaptability and learning Supporting
  In the posting: “Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive paren…”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
• Attention to detail and quality Supporting
  In the posting: “Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers.”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.

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