Manager Development Lead

Asana Asana · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · GTM Operations, Strategy & Field Readiness

Asana is seeking a Manager Development Lead to own the end-to-end strategy for sales manager development and individual contributor career paths. This role involves designing and delivering programs, building career frameworks, and measuring impact, partnering with Sales Leadership and HR. The ideal candidate has experience in sales enablement or L&D, a systems thinking approach, and comfort with ambiguity. A bonus is experience with AI tools and emerging technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and own Asana's global sales manager development program—from new manager onboarding through ongoing leadership coaching and cohort-based learning.
  2. Build and maintain a clear, transparent career framework for all sales roles, including leveling rubrics, competency models, and progression criteria.
  3. Partner with Sales Leadership to identify skill gaps, prioritize development needs, and build scalable solutions that work across regions and time zones.
  4. Create and curate content—workshops, e-learning modules, manager guides, and 1:1 toolkits—that drive real behavior change rather than just knowledge transfer.
  5. Define leading and lagging indicators for every program you own (from participant satisfaction and skill assessment scores to downstream metrics like promotion rates, manager effectiveness survey results, and rep ramp time).

Skills

Required

  • Sales enablement
  • Learning & Development
  • Talent Management
  • Sales environments
  • Management development programs
  • Leadership programs
  • Global SaaS or technology company experience
  • Career framework design
  • Competency mapping
  • Job architecture principles
  • Systems thinking
  • Facilitation skills
  • Communication skills
  • Building trust and alignment
  • Senior revenue stakeholder collaboration
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Data-informed approach
  • Cross-functional collaboration (HR, People Analytics, business leaders)

Nice to have

  • AI tools
  • emerging technologies
  • Coaching certification frameworks (ICF, Co-Active, etc.)
  • Formal facilitation training
  • Sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • high-impact, senior individual contributor role
  • global sales manager development program
  • clear, transparent career framework
  • scalable solutions
  • drive real behavior change
  • leading and lagging indicators
  • business performance data
  • global sales management community
  • senior leadership transparently
  • Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies
  • 6+ years of experience in sales enablement, learning & development, talent management, or a related field
  • Demonstrated success designing management development or leadership programs at scale
  • Strong familiarity with career framework design, competency mapping, and job architecture principles
  • systems thinker
  • Exceptional facilitation and communication skills
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • data-informed approach