Sales Enablement Manager

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Sales

Job Summary

Job Description

Figma is seeking an experienced Sales Enablement Manager to support its growing sales team in Japan. This role is responsible for scaling ongoing enablement and reinforcement for the sales team, focusing on key skills like deal qualification, discovery, value realization, and scaling enablement. The manager will partner with the Global Sales Enablement and Sales Leadership teams to design, build, and execute enablement programs, diagnose obstacles faced by the sales team, build repeatable sales motions, and manage sales trainings. They will also be responsible for producing and maintaining content, facilitating training sessions, and measuring the effectiveness of sales efforts. The position involves continuous regional insight provision, adaptation of learnings, and building coaching programs, with opportunities to influence sales strategy and product launch activation.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of Sales Experience or similar
  • Belief in enablement as an inclusive function
  • Strategic thinking for scaling business
  • Strong leadership and collaboration skills
  • Enthusiasm for helping sellers build relationships
  • Experience in sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDICC)
  • Creative and positive mindset
Good to have:
  • Sales Management experience
  • Experience with Command of the Message
  • Ability to lead from the front
  • Desire to adapt HQ programs for regional rollout

Job Details

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We are looking for an experienced Sales Enablement Manager to support our growing sales team in Japan to join our dynamic team of creatives, engineers, marketers, and brilliant business folks. As a member of a newer global team responsible for the continued success of our growing Sales team, you’ll serve as the enablement partner to our sales executives, managers and the team to scale the ongoing enablement and reinforcement that is needed every day. Key skills we are building and reinforcing include deal qualification, discovery, value realization and scaling enablement.
 
This is a full-time role that will be based in our Tokyo Hub. 
 
What you’ll do at Figma: 
  • Support our continued growth and the evolution of our Japan Sales Team.
  • Show considerable product expertise to both learn and share using Figma and FigJam.
  • Partner closely with our Global Sales Enablement and Sales Leadership team to design, build and execute ongoing enablement programs for the Japan Sales Team.  
  • Build with a team that is responsible for:
    • Diagnosing what obstacles our teams are facing in selling Figma products and making customers successful
    • Building repeatable sales motions, processes and playbooks that make us more effective as a team
    • Producing, curating and maintaining content to support our sales motions and playbooks including regionalisation and cultural nuance
    • Program managing our ongoing sales trainings and sales programming (enablement calls, all hands, etc.) and owning our enablement calendar globally
    • Facilitating successful training sessions and sales programming 
    • Measuring the effectiveness of our selling motions in order to change and optimize our efforts
    • You will continuously provide regional insights, adapt learnings and building coaching programs. 
Some projects you could work on:
  • Have a seat at the table with Japan Sales Leadership team to help us think through how our selling motions should evolve in region as our platform and user base grows
  • Ongoing evolution of Figma’s Value Selling methodology
  • Activating the field on new product launches
  • Sales skill coaching and programs
 We’d love to hear from you if you have:
  • 8+ years Sales Experience, Sales Management or other relevant experience
  • The view that enablement is a function that creates inclusivity for all new reps and is a strategic element of scaling a hyper growth business 
  • Strong leader as you will collaborate with many different stakeholders AND will have to think strategically on how to scale any new initiative by leveraging existing programs from HQ to roll out in region
  • Enthusiasm for helping sellers build deep customer relationships by continually delivering value
  • Experience in sales methodologies such as Command of the Message and MEDDICC
  • A desire to lead from the front and demonstrate how to effectively build customer relationships and deliver results
  • Creative and positive mindset with deep level of care in helping others succeed
 
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: 

  • Holding interviews in an accessible location
  • Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
  • Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
  • Changing the mode or format of interviews 

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

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