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The Opportunity
Are you a builder? Strong communicator? Infinitely organized? If you’re also passionate about technology, keep reading. Nutanix is looking for an innovative and motivated Academy Program Lead to expand and guide our highly successful Systems Engineering (SE) Academy program.
This is a global role, and your mission will be to recruit, onboard, and train the next generation of pre-sales talent while evolving the program to support a broader range of roles and advanced career progression. As the Academy Program Lead, you will collaborate with various teams to design the curriculum, plan capacity, and ensure a smooth training delivery, followed by offboarding to their final roles. Join us and significantly impact the growth and success of our SE Academy program!
Sales Engineering at Nutanix
Worldwide Solution Sales at Nutanix is a global team of 750+ professionals across 48 countries. Experts in Nutanix products and technologies play a crucial role with our customers by providing consultative guidance on how technology solutions can address business issues. They foster our channel partner relationships, driving training programs to unleash their success. Technology-obsessed, they're disrupting the cloud technology market with their dedication to simplicity and commitment to excellence.
The team is committed to hiring a diverse talent pool. One of their investments in that commitment is the establishment of the Systems Engineering Academy to expand their ability to build a bench of exceptional talent from all backgrounds and profiles.
Your Role
- Partner with Revenue Enablement to create, evolve and augment the curriculum for the SE Academy
- Design and execute role placement process for trainees exiting academy learning to final business teams.
- Engage and align with field leadership to generate demand, plan capacity and secure investment
- Coordinate program logistics, events, and communications
- Determine hiring profile and interview approach in collaboration with partners in People and Talent Acquisition
- Ensure smooth delivery of the training program to 20-30 Academy SEs each year, globally.
- Coach and mentor Academy participants
- Audit and refine program design.
- Socialize program enhancements and timelines with cross-functional stakeholders.
What You Will Bring
- Outstanding program management skills
- Demonstrated experience with curriculum design and delivery to technical teams.
- Excellent operational execution: previous experience in sales or business operations and budget management.
- Excellent communication and networking skills in a global function
- Ability to coach and mentor new college graduates
- Understanding of hiring profile and interview process development
- Previous experience developing learning evaluation and assessment tools.
- Genuine enthusiasm for technology and ability to speak to market trends.
- Experience supporting in a sales function preferred but not required.
- A customer-first mindset and passion for delivering high-quality experiences that exceed wants and focus on needs.
- This function will support global program execution; candidates are ideally located in one of our training hub locations in Durham, NC or Barcelona, Spain and be willing to travel up to 50% of the time.
About the Team
Meet Anya Kane, Senior Director - Strategy & Transformation - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anya-kane-50270aa/. Joined Nutanix in 2022 from VMware.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $ 157,600 and USD $ 236,520 per year. However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
