GTM Strategy & Operations Lead, Americas

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$212K/yr – $280K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own the AMER go-to-market strategy and operating rhythm, translating data into actionable plans and partnering across functions to drive growth and efficiency.

  • Strategic partnership with the Head of AMER Sales and executive stakeholders to plan and decide regional initiatives
  • Lead forecasting, planning, and performance-management cycles across bookings, pipeline, and attainment

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic business partnership: Serve as the primary strategic partner to the Head of AMER Sales, supporting regional planning, execution, and decision-making.
  • Forecasting & performance management: Own the AMER forecasting and performance-management rhythm, including forecast rollups, risk assessment, scenario modeling, executive readouts, and action follow-through.
  • Business cadences: Lead core operating cadences, including pipeline inspections, deal reviews, QBRs, and performance reviews in partnership with AMER Sales leadership.
  • Performance visibility: Build repeatable views of AMER performance across bookings, pipeline, conversion, coverage, capacity, productivity, attainment, and key growth initiatives.
  • Performance diagnosis: Diagnose trends across segments, markets, customer motions, products, and routes to market, translating data into clear recommendations for leaders.
  • Planning & resource allocation: Lead AMER inputs into annual and in-year planning, including headcount, capacity, territory and segmentation design, account assignment, productivity assumptions, and investment cases.
  • Cross-functional partnership: Partner with Finance, central GTM Operations, Revenue Systems, and Data to represent AMER in company planning and ensure trusted data for decision-making.
  • GTM efficiency: Identify structural opportunities to improve pipeline quality, deal velocity, coverage, efficiency, and predictability across the AMER sales motion.
  • GTM model evolution: Help evolve the AMER go-to-market model as the business scales, including the right balance of direct, Customer Success, partner, and reseller motions.
  • Global-to-regional execution: Bring regional insight into global GTM design while driving adoption of global commercial policies, processes, and standards.

Requirements

  • Experience: 7+ years in Sales Strategy, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, or GTM Strategy, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
  • Leadership partnership: Proven ability to act as a strategic thought partner to senior Sales or Revenue leaders and translate insights into action.
  • Planning and commercial design: Experience with annual planning, territory and capacity planning, segmentation, account coverage, productivity modeling, and investment cases.
  • Forecasting and performance management: Deep experience with forecasting, pipeline health, scenario modeling, conversion, coverage, capacity, and attainment.
  • Analytics: Exceptional analytical and modeling skills, with advanced Excel/Google Sheets capabilities; SQL is strongly preferred.
  • Business judgment: Strong instincts for balancing operational rigor, governance, and speed, with the ability to distinguish symptoms from root causes.
  • Influence: Clear, confident communicator who can influence across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, GTM Operations, Revenue Systems, and Data without direct authority.
  • Hands-on: Energized by ambiguity and comfortable moving between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

Benefits

  • Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
  • Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers
  • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more
  • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge, and support you personally
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