Technical Training & Partner Enablement Specialist.

Reporting to : Peter Fray, Field CTO.

Team : Pre-Sales.

Location : Flexible / Remote.

- Platform9- is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds.

- Founded by a team of VMware-cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations.

- Our flagship product, Private- Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud.

- We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a- next-generation,- open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer- outcomes.

- Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates- operational risk and complexity.

- Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced- infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers,- seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical- enterprise- features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in.

- This enables IT teams to gain robust API- control and- a user experience they trust-rooted in customer obsession and an owner's mindset.

- We-share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.

- With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world's largest enterprises, including- Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to- achieving- true vendor independence and operational consistency.

- We are an inclusive, globally- distributed- company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers,- systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud- innovation and efficiency.

- Our values-innovation, customer obsession, ownership,- radical candor, and excellence-guide how we build and support every deployment.

Role Overview:

- Platform9 is seeking a Technical Training & Partner Enablement Specialist to join the Pre-Sales organization and help accelerate the creation of high-value technical enablement assets for internal teams, partners, and the field.

- This role will be responsible for building training content, partner-focused technical materials, and supporting go-to-market technical collateral that helps scale Platform9's Private Cloud Director and related solutions.

- This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in technical training, curriculum development, content creation, and technical enablement, particularly in virtualization, infrastructure, private cloud, or adjacent enterprise technologies.

- The right candidate will be highly organized, an excellent communicator, comfortable working across multiple stakeholders, and capable of translating technical concepts into clear, consumable training and field-ready assets.

- This person will report directly to Peter Fray and work closely with Pre-Sales, Product, Engineering, Alliances, and partner teams.

Key ResponsibilitiesTraining & Curriculum Development.

- Develop and deliver a comprehensive 8-part masterclass for Platform9 solutions based on existing curriculum direction and internal subject matter expertise.

Create technical training materials including:.

- Lecture decks.

- Lab guides.

- Instructor notes.

- Self-paced learning content.

- Onboarding materials.

- Technical walkthroughs and recorded modules.

Build structured enablement programs for:

- Internal pre-sales teams.

- New hires.

- Partner technical teams.

- Field and support organizations as needed.

- Help define learning paths for introductory, intermediate, and advanced audiences.

- Partner Enablement.

Develop partner-centric deep dive content covering integrations and joint solution positioning for strategic ecosystem partners, including:.

- Veeam.

- Rubrik.

- Cohesity.

- Pure Storage.

- Hitachi Vantara.

- NetApp.

- Omnissa.

Work with partner, alliances, and technical teams to create training that enables partners to:.

- Understand Platform9 solution value.

- Position integrations effectively.

- Support solution design and deployment discussions.

- Participate in proofs of concept and technical discovery.

- Field & GTM Technical Content.

Help create technical go-to-market assets such as:

- Reference architectures.

- Solution briefs.

- Demo content.

- FAQs.

- Competitive and objection-handling content, implementation and best-practice guidance.

- Package technical information into clear, reusable assets that can be consumed by the field, partners, and customers.

- Support the pre-sales team in rapidly bringing technical collateral to market.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner closely with Pre-Sales leadership, Product Management, Engineering, Alliances, Marketing, and SMEs to gather inputs and validate technical accuracy.

- Drive a repeatable process for content review, stakeholder feedback, iteration, and publishing.

- Help ensure training and collateral remain current as Platform9 products and partner integrations evolve.

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of experience in one or more of the following:.

- Technical training.

- Curriculum development.

- Technical enablement.

- Technical content creation.

- Systems engineering or infrastructure-focused education.

- Strong experience creating structured technical learning content for enterprise technologies.

- Strong presentation, written communication, and instructional design skills.

- Experience building content for technical audiences such as administrators, architects, support teams, or partners.

- Ability to take complex technical concepts and convert them into practical, clear training and field-facing materials.

- Experience working cross-functionally with technical and business stakeholders.

- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in virtualization, private cloud, infrastructure software, or enterprise platform technologies.

- Familiarity with VMware, hypervisors, cloud infrastructure, storage, backup/data protection, or adjacent enterprise infrastructure ecosystems.

- Experience delivering partner enablement or technical training for channel or alliance organizations.

- Exposure to Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, or modern private cloud platforms.

- Experience creating labs, demos, simulation-based learning, or hands-on workshop content.

- Experience using modern content creation and training tools beyond standard presentation software.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate is:

- A strong technical trainer and content developer.

- Polished and credible in front of technical audiences.

- Structured in how they design curricula and learning paths.

- Able to work independently while collaborating across teams.

- Capable of ramping quickly on new technologies.

- Excited to help turn technical knowledge into real field impact.