Senior Technical Enablement Manager (f/m/d)

<h2><strong>About the Opportunity</strong></h2> <p>The Customer Insights & Adoption (CIA) team is hiring a senior architect to lead internal technical enablement across Contentful’s product portfolio and recommended ways of building. You will serve as a deeply technical, highly cross-functional subject matter expert who empowers internal teams, customers, and partners to adopt Contentful with confidence and consistency. You’ll apply your industry experience, consultative leadership, and passion for teaching to build scalable programs and toolkits that drive a shared understanding of what good looks like, inform product innovation, and guide business strategy.</p> <h2><strong>What to expect?</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own and evolve internal technical enablement on Contentful product features, implementation patterns, and best practices for the Customer Experience organization (e.g. Customer Success Management, Professional Services, Learning Services, Customer Support Engineering) and cross-functional teams (e.g. Sales Engineering, Partnerships)</li> <li>Serve as a company-wide Contentful subject matter expert by engaging closely with internal teams to develop prescriptive implementation guidance and synthesize it into workshops, enablement materials, tools, examples and other resources</li> <li>Establish a strategic, scalable technical enablement practice that supports continuous education, centralized knowledge sharing, and consistent understanding across teams, customers, and solution partners</li> <li>Partner closely with Field Enablement to develop a cadence of training and learning sessions that align technical enablement with go-to-market strategies</li> <li>Collaborate with Product, Product Marketing and Demo teams throughout the product development lifecycle to evaluate new features, provide actionable feedback, and influence decisions as a trusted advisor</li> <li>Coordinate closely with Professional Services to translate customer implementation insights into impactful enablement content; coordinate with Learning Services and Developer Experience to ensure messaging and guidance are aligned across courses, training, and documentation</li> <li>Create, curate, and maintain a library of enablement materials including feature usage guidance, prescriptive patterns, use cases, discovery questions, and architectural recommendations</li> <li>Develop and deliver internal workshops and technical training that effectively support both technical and non-technical audiences; model excellent virtual facilitation and learner engagement techniques</li> <li>Contribute to and help lead strategic enablement initiatives, such as starter kits, maturity models, trial environments, and other cross-team projects that strengthen our internal, customer, and partner ecosystem</li> <li>Support Customer Success Managers and Partner Managers as a technical advisor during select customer and partner engagements, providing clarity on architecture, implementation decisions, and best practice adoption</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What you need to be successful?</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience</li> <li>5+ years in a customer-facing Solution Architect, Technical Consultant, or Implementation Consultant role. Consulting experience is preferred; candidates must have experience leading technical discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> <li>Proven expertise with API-first, composable content platforms (i.e. Contentful, Contentstack, Sanity); experience with legacy CMS platforms (i.e. Drupal, AEM, Sitecore) a plus</li> <li>Strong understanding of composable/MACH principles, headless CMS ... (truncated, view full listing at source)