Training Manager

Role Overview

Our organization is seeking a strategic and technically proficient Technical Training Manager to lead the enablement function for our global support and integrations this role you will define the long-term educational roadmap ensuring our technical staff possesses the high-level skills necessary to support complex platform integrations API debugging and data-driven marketing technologies. You will bridge the gap between technical engineering teams and front-line support transforming training from a baseline requirement into a strategic driver of organizational performance.

Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Vision & Roadmap: Develop and execute a multi-year strategic vision for technical enablement that aligns with the organizations growth and capability goals.
  
• Operational Partnership: Act as the primary liaison for Operations Product and Engineering to ensure training programs evolve alongside platform updates and market shifts.
  
• Program Governance: Define the architecture for learning paths and establish rigorous standards for content ownership knowledge validation and curriculum lifecycle management.
  

2. Team Management & Development

• People Leadership: Manage a specialized team of technical trainers and instructional designers focusing on their career progression and technical mastery.
  
• Talent Acquisition: Oversee the hiring and onboarding of new trainers ensuring they possess deep expertise in SQL APIs and digital tracking technologies.
  
• Quality Coaching: Conduct regular facilitation reviews and calibration sessions to maintain high instructional standards and technical accuracy across the team.
  

3. Curriculum Architecture & Design

• Instructional Excellence: Oversee the creation of technically rigorous scenario-based learning experiences using methodologies such as ADDIE and Blooms Taxonomy.
  
• Technical Oversight: Review and validate all instructional materials including SQL practice environments API debugging labs and advanced technical workshops.
  
• Innovation: Evaluate and implement modern learning technologies including simulation-based tools and AI-assisted practice modules to enhance technical skill acquisition.
  

4. Data-Driven Insights (SQL Analytics)

• Advanced Analytics: Use expert-level SQL to extract and model data from various systems to assess training impact and learner proficiency.
  
• Performance Dashboards: Maintain automated reporting suites that track time-to-proficiency assessment success and the correlation between training and support quality.
  
• Executive Reporting: Translate complex learning analytics into clear actionable narratives for senior leadership to guide investment and headcount planning.
  

5. Technical Domain Mastery

• APIs & Integrations: Own the end-to-end training strategy for RESTful APIs webhooks and server-side tracking ensuring staff can debug complex JSON/XML payloads.
  
• Tracking & Attribution: Lead the educational strategy for conversion tracking (pixel and server-side) attribution modeling and privacy-centric measurement shifts.
  
• Platform Enablement: Ensure comprehensive proficiency across major digital advertising interfaces and management tools keeping pace with rapid API and policy updates.
  

Qualifications & ExperienceProfessional Background

• Industry Experience: 24 years of experience in technical operations ad tech support backend product support or integrations engineering.
  
• Leadership Track Record: Proven experience managing trainers or leading a technical enablement function within a SaaS or digital advertising environment.
  
• Environment: Strong preference for candidates familiar with multi-tenant SaaS architectures and API-first platforms.
  

Technical Proficiencies

• Expert SQL: Deep command of window functions CTEs multi-table joins and query optimization for data analysis.
  
• API & Integration Expertise: Hands-on experience with RESTful API patterns authentication (OAuth JWT) and server-side event forwarding.
  
• Debugging Tools: High proficiency with Postman browser developer tools proxy tools and log environments.
  
• Marketing Technology: Advanced understanding of attribution logic (e.g. multi-touch data-driven) signal optimization and the technical implementation of tracking tags and APIs.
  
• LMS Management: Experience administering Learning Management Systems including architecture user enrollment workflows and system integrations.