GTM Strategy & Operations Manager - BDR

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$170K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive GTM operations and analytics to scale Sales and Marketing at Zip, focusing on process design, data insights, and cross-functional projects.

  • Own design and execution of core sales processes (territory planning, lead routing, performance tracking).
  • Must-have: 8+ years in analytics/ops with strong Excel/Sheets and SQL potential.
  • Standout: Cross-functional project ownership across Sales, Marketing, Finance, CS, and RevOps.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive operational excellence across GTM: Support the design and execution of core sales processes including territory planning, goal setting, lead routing, and performance tracking, ensuring our GTM engine runs smoothly as we scale.
  • Deliver insights that drive decisions: Use SQL, spreadsheets, and dashboards to uncover trends, diagnose problems, and influence how Sales and Marketing leaders make decisions. You’ll turn analysis into action.
  • Lead cross-functional projects: Take ownership of high-impact initiatives across Sales, Marketing, Finance, CS, and RevOps, whether that’s streamlining our forecast process, rolling out new attribution logic, or helping launch a new rep productivity model.
  • Shape the GTM rhythm: Partner with Sales leaders to run key operating cadences such as forecast calls, pipeline reviews, and QBRs, ensuring every forum is well-structured, efficient, and driving the right outcomes.
  • Scale what works: Help build the systems, workflows, and metrics that enable repeatable success, while identifying areas for automation and simplification across the funnel.
  • Build trust across teams: Act as a thought partner and executional force for GTM leaders, balancing strategic problem solving with a roll-up-your-sleeves mentality to get things done.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in consulting, business operations, investment banking, corporate strategy, or similar analytical roles. Previous Sales Operations experience is a plus.
  • Strong analytical toolkit: you’re highly proficient in Excel/Sheets. You’re comfortable in SQL or are motivated to learn it quickly.
  • Excellent communication: you can translate analysis into clear insights and are comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels.
  • A builder’s mindset: you look for ways to automate, scale, and simplify.
  • You’re detail-oriented but pragmatic: capable of diving deep without losing sight of the big picture.
  • Fast learner with a bias for action: you thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and like to get things done.
  • Collaborative and curious: you ask great questions, work well with others, and enjoy solving hard problems as a team.
  • You bring a collaborative, low-ego approach to the table: you’re opinionated but flexible, and you know how to align diverse teams.
  • Interest in SaaS, sales, or GTM strategy. Prior domain experience is a plus, but not required.

Nice To Have

  • Previous Sales Operations experience is a plus
  • Prior domain experience in SaaS, sales, or GTM strategy

Benefits

  • 📈 Start-up equity
  • 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage
  • 🚠 Team building events
  • 🌴 Flexible PTO
  • 💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget
  • 💸 401k plan
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Zip

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Zip is the world’s leading AI-powered procurement orchestration platform, empowering businesses to accelerate the procurement process, mitigate risk, and drive growth by offering a single front door to unify the teams, tasks, and tools involved in working with suppliers. With Zip, businesses can maximize employee adoption of purchasing policies and increase spend visibility and control. As the leading solution for optimizing business spend, Zip’s AI-powered platform is trusted by hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, including AMD, Anthropic, Arm, Canva, Coinbase, Discover, Dollar Tree, HP, Instacart, Lyft, Northwestern Mutual, Pinterest, Prudential, Reddit, Sephora, Snowflake, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Toast to maximize the ROI of every dollar. Zip in October of 2024 secured a $190 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation marking the largest investment in procurement technology in over two decades. Zip’s impact has been transformative: over $107 billion in customer spend processed to date and collectively saving over $4.4 billion. Snowflake alone achieved $305 million in savings.Zip has earned numerous awards, including Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech, Inc.’s Best in Business, Forbes 2025 Fintech 50 and Forbes 2025 America's Best Startup Employers, along with coverage in Fortune, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. Industry analyst IDC recently created a new “Spend Orchestration” category, with Zip named the leader.

Founded in 2020
San Francisco, California, USA
1K employees (73 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
66% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
265.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$46K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.1%
Direct
63.5%
Referral
6.9%
Social
1.6%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
35 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$371.3M
Last Raise
$190M
Series D, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2024
    Series D • $190M
  • May 2023
    Series C • $100M
  • May 2022
    Series B • $43.3M

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