Jerry Pharr's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Jerry Pharr's work experience provides a unique perspective on the sales function and its importance within organizations. Jerry has many years of experience in sales and sales Enablement, where his primary focus has been helping sales teams be more effective. In his current role at Redis Labs in Austin, Texas, Jerry leads a team responsible for sales enablement and sales operations. Additionally, Jerry was the Sr. Director of Revenue Operations & Enablement at FLEXE from July 2019 to November 2019 in Austin, Texas, and ran the teams responsible for sales enablement and sales operations. In his previous role as Director, Field Readiness (Sales Enablement) at Outreach from August 2016 to July 2019 in Austin, Texas, Jerry was responsible for everything from sales onboarding to skill training/coaching to competitive readiness to product readiness to sales playbooks to the sales stack. Lastly, Jerry was the Director, Worldwide Sales Enablement at Absolute Software from 2015 to 2016 in Austin, Texas Area. Absolute provides persistent security and data risk management solutions for computers, tablets, and smartphones. Jerry’s team helps their clients improve customer retention and growth by equipping sales and customer relationship teams with actionable content and customer intelligence.Jerry was also the Founding Member & Chapter President of Sales Enablement Society in Austin, Texas. The Sales Enablement Society is a volunteer organization founded in January 2016 by a diverse group of like-minded sales and marketing professionals based in the Washington, D.C. area. The society’s goal is to better define the sales enablement functions and roles that currently exist within organizations, and to ultimately solve the vast disparities that exist in the profession today. Jerry’s work experiences include five years as a Director of Global Sales Enablement at Redis Lab in Austin, Texas, where he helps sellers have more and better conversations and three years as the Director, Field Readiness (Sales Enablement) at Outreach in Austin, Texas, where he was responsible for everything from sales onboarding to skill training/coaching to competitive readiness to product readiness to sales playbooks to the sales stack. Lastly, Jerry’s work experience includes two years as the Executive Director at Sales & Sales Enablement at Onit from 2014 to 2015 in Austin, Texas Area, where Onit solves business process problems with lightweight web applications.

🎓 Education

Jerry Pharr's Educational Background and Work Ready:Jerry Pharr earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Upon graduation, Jerry followed up with a Master's degree in rhetoric and political communication from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Jerry then completed his doctorate degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Kansas in 2009.Jerry has worked as an instructor, MPP, and research associate at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Kansas, and the University of California, Berkeley. Jerry has also served as a Data Entry Clerk for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and as a research associate for the Congressional Research Service.