Ellucian
Vice President of Enablement
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Reston, VA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ June 2nd, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Vice President of Enablement. The role involves leading a cross-functional Center of Excellence to drive global enablement across sales, services, customer success, and partner enablement. The Vice President is responsible for developing strategies, measuring their success, aligning enablement with corporate strategies, and ensuring teams have the necessary resources to achieve their goals.
Highlights
Highlights
- Lead enablement strategy and execution across the company.
- Create training programs for sales, customer success, and key departments.
- Use AI and learning technologies to scale enablement efforts.
- Develop performance metrics to assess enablement initiatives.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in related fields, with 4 years in leadership.
- Experience with AI and learning platforms; higher education experience preferred.
- Comprehensive health coverage and flexible time off provided.
- Offers 401k with match, Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account, and parental leave.
- Encourages a learning culture with professional development opportunities.
Vice President of Enablement Full Description
Vice President of Enablement I Hybrid
- 2003 Edmund Halley Drive, Reston, Virginia, US, 20191; Washington, Washington, DC
- Corporate Strategy
- 6019
- Up to 25%
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About Opportunity
The Vice President of Enablement will lead a cross-functional Center of Excellence tasked with driving enablement globally, all groups, at Ellucian. They will be responsible for all areas of enablement across the company, including sales, services, customers success and partner enablement, leading both the strategy and execution of those programs, with the goal of driving productivity and efficiency across the organization. They will also be responsible for establishing metrics to measure the success and impact of those enablement initiatives. The Vice President will also play a critical role in prioritizing our enablement focus, with the goal of aligning it with the company’s overall corporate strategy, as well as customizing enablement to fit the needs of all the international regions that are critical to Ellucian’s business
This role is crucial for ensuring that our teams are equipped with the necessary tools, training, and resources to achieve their goals, and critical to driving sales performance and accelerating the modernization of our customers to SaaS. The Vice President of Enablement will report to the Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer.
Where you will make an impact
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About Opportunity
The Vice President of Enablement will lead a cross-functional Center of Excellence tasked with driving enablement globally, all groups, at Ellucian. They will be responsible for all areas of enablement across the company, including sales, services, customers success and partner enablement, leading both the strategy and execution of those programs, with the goal of driving productivity and efficiency across the organization. They will also be responsible for establishing metrics to measure the success and impact of those enablement initiatives. The Vice President will also play a critical role in prioritizing our enablement focus, with the goal of aligning it with the company’s overall corporate strategy, as well as customizing enablement to fit the needs of all the international regions that are critical to Ellucian’s business
This role is crucial for ensuring that our teams are equipped with the necessary tools, training, and resources to achieve their goals, and critical to driving sales performance and accelerating the modernization of our customers to SaaS. The Vice President of Enablement will report to the Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer.
Where you will make an impact
- Develop and Implement Enablement Strategy: Craft and execute a comprehensive enablement strategy that aligns with Ellucian's objectives and drives performance improvement.
- Training Programs: Design, develop, and deliver training programs for sales, customer success, and other key departments to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Scaling through Technology: Utilize Artificial Intelligence and other learning technologies to efficiently scale and increase the effectiveness of the company’s enablement efforts.
- Resource Management: Ensure that teams have access to the necessary resources, including tools, documentation, and support, to effectively perform their duties.
- Performance Metrics: Establish track performance metrics to measure the success of enablement initiatives and identify areas for further improvement.
- Collaboration: Work closely with leaders in sales, services, customer success and partner leaders to understand their needs and challenges and provide tailored enablement solutions.
- Content Creation: Develop high-quality content, such as training materials, webinars, and guides, to support enablement programs.
- Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess the effectiveness of enablement programs and make necessary adjustments to ensure ongoing improvement.
- Strategic Alignment: Make sure enablement programs are aligned with company-wide strategic priorities.
- Leadership: Lead and inspire a team of enablement professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
What you will bring
- Independent, self-starter who is resourceful and assertive. Business ownership, outcomes-oriented mentality
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in enablement, training, or a related field, with at least 4 years in a leadership role.
- Experience using AI to drive and improve enablement, as well as experience implementing and utilizing learning platforms.
- Experience working higher education preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross functionally while building productive relationships with core stakeholders and team members.
- Ability to analyze performance data and make data-driven decisions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to adapt style based on audience.
- Strong organizational skills with ability to ruthlessly prioritize.
- Strong management and leadership skills.
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly. Additionally, we are aware of fake applicant schemes and have rigorous internal processes in place to mitigate such risk and inform proper authorities of any such instances that arise.
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