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Hire a Sales Enablement specialist

Sales Enablement makes the rest of the sales team faster: onboarding and ramp design, playbooks and content, and the tooling that keeps reps consistent as the team scales.

TalentStack recruits Sales Enablement specialists for SaaS businesses across the UK, Europe and the US, whether the role sits under Sales, Marketing or RevOps.

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17 days
Average time to fill
90%
CV to interview ratio
85%
Offer acceptance rate
40%
Candidate response rate

Which kind of Enablement hire are you making?

A hands-on specialist, or a leadership hire owning the roadmap. Jump to the detail below.

Enablement Specialist

A hands-on hire who owns onboarding, ramp design, content and playbooks day to day, usually a first or second dedicated enablement hire.

  • Track record designing or running a ramp programme, not just delivering ad hoc training sessions
  • Comfortable owning a content library and keeping it current as messaging changes
  • Experience administering an enablement platform or LMS, not just using one
  • Able to work across Sales, Marketing and RevOps to pull the right content together

Head of Enablement

A leadership hire who owns enablement strategy and roadmap across a scaling sales org, usually brought in once ramp time and message consistency have become a board-level metric rather than a background concern.

  • Track record measurably moving ramp time or rep performance, not just content volume produced
  • Comfortable building an enablement team and roadmap, not just executing someone else's plan
  • Experience partnering with sales leadership on what actually moves the number
  • Able to prioritise across competing requests from Sales, Marketing and Product

Why TalentStack

Why TalentStack for Sales Enablement hiring.

Outcome-first assessment

We screen for a track record moving ramp time and rep performance, not just content volume produced.

Sector-deep expertise

We know how enablement is structured differently across sales-led, PLG and hybrid GTM motions.

Off-market access

Most of the enablement talent we place is never actively job hunting when we approach them.

One recruiter across GTM

The same team hiring your AEs and SDRs can hire the enablement function that supports them, so the profile is assessed against how your team actually sells.

Real outcomes

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Sales Enablement the same as Sales Training?
Training is usually one part of it. Enablement typically also covers onboarding and ramp design, content and playbook ownership, and the enablement tooling or LMS a sales team uses day to day.
Does Sales Enablement sit under Sales, Marketing or RevOps?
It varies by company, we've seen it sit under all three. We recruit for the skill set itself rather than assuming one reporting line.
At what team size does a dedicated Enablement hire start to pay for itself?
There's no fixed number, but it's commonly once a sales team is scaling fast enough that ramp time and message consistency across reps become a real bottleneck, often once a team passes roughly ten reps.
What's the difference between an Enablement Specialist and a Head of Enablement?
An Enablement Specialist typically owns onboarding, content and one or two programmes day to day. A Head of Enablement owns the strategy and roadmap across a scaling team, and is usually a second or third enablement hire, not a first one.

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