From our founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, your data just arrives in your warehouse, canonical and ready to query, no engineering or maintenance required. As we watch more and more companies leverage our technology to become truly data-driven, we’re proud not only of our growth but also of the fact that we’ve grown without compromising our core values.
Integrity.
We do the right thing, even when it's harder in the short run. We challenge the status quo by reasoning from first principles.
Initiative.
Fivetran belongs to all of us. We take ownership and are accountable for getting things done. Through curiosity, learning, and coaching, we grow as individuals and teams.
One team, one dream.
We share the pains and successes of our customers, partners and colleagues. We seek, gather, and trust a diverse group of teammates with different perspectives to guide Fivetran's progress.
If these values resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you.
About the role: (This is the introduction paragraph specific to the role. See Fivetran careers for examples.)
This management position will ideate, develop, direct, and evaluate strategic initiatives and programming to support the company’s rapid growth, accelerated productivity and participation, and cultural integrity.
The Sr. Director of Sales Learning & Leadership is integral to the design, implementation and evaluation of foundational learning and professional development activities including strategically assessing development needs, orchestrating learning skills and career development of the salesforce, employee orientation, education, and training, management development, and values-driven leadership development.
When this job is done well, results will yield high levels of engagement, productivity, retention and cultural alignment (cross-functional, cross-hierarchy and cross-site).
As a (role) at Fivetran, you will:
Foundational Learning
Professional Development
Impact how every sales leader leads. Own high-visibility, high-value work that will have a clear and lasting impact on the company’s culture and business success.
Create the learning experiences that will enable our leaders to:
Miscellaneous:
Lead and encourage learning with positivity and optimism
Hire, lead and develop a team and oversee an operational budget to support effective use of outside vendors and resources
Lead a nimble, world-class team, bringing the best out of every team member and creating a culture of high-performance, people development, innovation, and collaboration
Create, monitor and report metrics on all programming to consistently measure productivity
Partner with regional stakeholders to align successful global execution of initiatives; safeguard quality, while honoring regional nuances.
Constantly draw upon the latest innovations in adult learning and development and continually push the company to go beyond the status quo
Partner with leaders to execute on Diversity & Inclusion priorities and drive learning-related initiatives that make the company a better place for everybody to work
Create clear, consistent communications targeted for different programming, levels, and stakeholders to ensure clarity, alignment, and uptake on the programming offered
Establish agreements around stakeholder and collaborator participation
What you bring to the table:
Nice-to-haves (optional):
Shaped by the real-world needs of data analysts, Fivetran technology is the smartest, fastest way to replicate your applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance cloud warehouse. Fivetran connectors deploy in minutes, require zero maintenance, and automatically adjust to source changes — so your data team can stop worrying about engineering and focus on driving insights. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
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Our mission is to save engineers from building in-house data pipelines, by building one automated data pipeline that everyone can use. Every single company that uses SaaS tools to run their business will eventually need to analyze the data that sits in those tools. Fivetran unlocks this data with automated connectors that converts messy, chaotic APIs into normalized, standard schemas.