Director, Sales Strategy & Operations
Director, Sales Strategy & Operations
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SENIORITY
Manager
About the role
- Sales Operations
- Partner with Sales leadership to execute on key imperatives
- Drive seller productivity and remove friction from the sales motion
- Run the operating cadence: forecast calls, pipeline inspection, deal reviews, QBRs, exec readouts
- Improve forecast accuracy and pipeline health
- Support the design of overage models, territories, segmentation, quotas, and capacity planning
- Serve as the operating partner to Americas Customer Success leadership on retention, adoption, and expansion priorities.
- Own Customer Success operating metrics and reporting (gross and net revenue retention, churn, renewal rates, expansion, adoption, and customer health) and drive the actions that improve them.
- Design and operationalize customer lifecycle processes, including Sales-to-CS handoffs, onboarding, health scoring, success planning, renewal management, and escalation/risk playbooks.
- Own renewal and retention forecasting and CSM book-of-business design, including customer-to-CSM coverage ratios.
- Own CS metrics: GRR/NRR, churn, renewals, expansion, adoption, and health
- Lifecycle processes: Sales-to-CS handoff, onboarding, health scoring, success plans, renewals, risk playbooksCSM book-of-business design and coverage ratios
- Improve renewal and retention forecasting
- Support CS compensation, headcount, and incentive design with Finance and People
- Insights, Systems & Leadership
- Translate complex plans into compelling narratives for the VP, Field Operations, Americas Sales and CS leadership, and the Executive Leadership Team.
- Identify bottlenecks and streamline processes to improve decision speed, seller productivity, and CSM efficiency, including where AI and automation can help.
- Partner with IT, Applications, and other stakeholders to evolve the processes and tools supporting Americas Sales and CS, defining requirements and priorities without owning the systems roadmap.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of sales and customer success operations and strategy professionals.
- The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in GTM strategy and operations, ideally in the cloud computing space
- They will have a passion for problem-solving and an ability to think strategically and execute methodically, while identifying the root cause for the identified problems
- They should have an aptitude for analytics and data-driven decision-making, and a proven track record of driving successful GTM strategies that include both Product Led Growth and Enterprise Selling motions
- Demonstrated willingness to perform basic tasks such as creating analytics and writing communications, while also conducting sophisticated work for Senior Executives
- Curiosity about business and customers (why do customers do what they do); customer-focused in running Strategy & Operations
- Understanding of various sales tools, how to leverage them effectively, and consult GTM stakeholders on how to properly leverage them to maximize efficiency and selling motions
- 10+ years in management consulting, sales, customer success, or business operations, GTM strategy, or business planning in enterprise software or large-scale tech
- SaaS/Consumption experience with deep understanding of ARR and consumption models and their metrics (bookings, pipeline coverage, GRR/NRR, churn, expansion)3+ years of direct people management leading sales ops, CS ops, strategy, or analytics teams
- Track record leading sales planning and running the sales operating cadence with senior Sales leaders
- Track record driving new-business and renewal forecasting, pipeline analytics, and performance governance with senior Sales and CS leaders
- Coverage models, territory and book-of-business governance, quota setting, and capacity planning for a multi-segment Sales and CS org
- Customer lifecycle programs: health scoring, onboarding, renewal management, churn mitigation
- Strong command of metrics and business modeling
- Executive-level communication with VP- and C-level audiences
- Hands-on operator balancing strategy and execution
- Translating business needs into requirements for IT and Applications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- Management consulting or corporate strategy experience in GTM, sales effectiveness, or customer retention
- Business Manager, Chief of Staff, or operating leader supporting Sales or CS executives
- Managing a portfolio of 6–12 month initiatives in a matrixed org
- Building scaled or digital CS motions for long-tail segments
- Using AI tools to improve analysis, forecasting, or workflows
- Salesforce, Tableau, Anaplan, Gong, Snowflake
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