Senior Director, Field Activation

Job Requisition  # 26WD98424

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.

• 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…