Full-Time
Sales Manager
Doctrine
Open-source PHP ORM and DBAL libraries
No salary listed
Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany
Hybrid
Hybrid role in Düsseldorf; up to three remote days per week depending on team.
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- 5+ years of successful B2B sales experience, ideally in SaaS.
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing sales teams.
- Strong hunter mentality with a track record of consistently exceeding targets.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Data-driven, analytical, and highly organized.
- High standards, strong ownership, and a bias for action.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, demanding environment with ambitious growth objectives.
- Motivated by performance, accountability, and uncapped earning potential.
- Drive commercial execution, own and deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets for your market.
- Recruit, build a high-performing team, develop and retain top-performing sales talent.
- Coach your team to continuously improve their prospecting, discovery, negotiation, and closing skills.
- Foster a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer challenges and design effective Go-to-Market strategies.
- Lead from the front by joining customer meetings and supporting strategic opportunities.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Product, Operations, and other Sales leaders to drive growth and improve performance.
- Build and implement scalable sales playbooks and best practices across mid-market and strategic segments.
- Lead an international team based across Germany and France, with regular interactions and travel between both countries.
Doctrine provides PHP libraries for database storage and object mapping, most notably the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and the Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL). These open-source tools help PHP developers interact with databases by mapping PHP objects to database tables and by offering a unified API for database operations. The project is widely used across PHP frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas, and is maintained by a volunteer community under the MIT license. Unlike proprietary DB tools, Doctrine is funded through donations and sponsorships, and it also engages the developer community through blogs, events, and consulting. The goal is to give PHP developers stable, flexible database management capabilities and a reliable open-source ecosystem.
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Founded
2006
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Doctrine 3.4.0 aligns with PHP 8.4, expanding relevance for modern PHP teams.
- OpenCollective, GitHub Sponsors, and Tidelift provide recurring revenue and support channels.
- SkillDisplay partnership broadens Doctrine's training footprint and employer visibility across the PHP community.
What critics are saying
- ORM 3 adoption is only 25-30% of ORM 2, delaying ecosystem migration.
- ORM 2 branch enters maintenance-only mode in March 2026, slowing community momentum.
- Doctrine's volunteer model depends on sponsorships, leaving funding exposed if sponsor interest fades.
What makes Doctrine unique
- Doctrine ORM 3.4.0 added PHP 8.4 native lazy objects and property hooks.
- Doctrine pushed ORM 2 EOL to February 2027, protecting legacy PHP users.
- Doctrine still anchors Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas database abstractions across PHP.
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Company News
Last week Doctrine Project has released Doctrine 3.4.0 which primarily adds support for PHP 8.4 functionality:
Now, SkillDisplay is partnering with Doctrine to offer open data skill definitions for these libraries, creating a shared foundation of competencies that will benefit developers across the community.