
Sales Operations Lead
Zendesk
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $118,000 - $178,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own and drive the operating model for the AI Product Specialist sales motion; process, governance, cadence, and accountability
- Serve as the primary Sales Operations voice for AI sales leadership; shaping operational priorities and ensuring they align to quarterly and annual business goals
- Partner with AI sales leadership and AI product stakeholders to design and continuously improve workflows that support quota attainment, pipeline conversion, and AI product adoption
- Define success metrics and ensure operational priorities; process, tooling, reporting; are consistently delivered
- Architect scalable, standardised sales processes capable of absorbing organisational change; whether driven by growth, restructuring, or acquisition activity
- Lead process harmonisation programmes when AI specialist workflows diverge across teams or geographies, producing documented, version-controlled frameworks adopted across the organisation
- Act as the Sales Operations lead for M&A activity impacting the AI specialist segment, owning the integration workstream from Day 1 planning through to steady-state
- Drive CRM migration, territory and quota rationalisation, compensation alignment, data deduplication, and process unification for acquired sales organisations
- Ensure newly combined sales teams operate from unified frameworks, tooling, and governance without disruption to in-flight pipeline or performance
- Establish and enforce data quality standards across Salesforce and connected systems; ensure consistent definitions, taxonomy, and reporting logic
- Own pipeline integrity mechanisms; stage definitions, required fields, hygiene routines, audit checks; to improve specialist performance reporting and forecast accuracy
- Build and maintain automation pipelines to streamline data synchronisation, reporting, sales notifications, and governance checks; reducing manual workload and errors during periods of operational change
- Own forecasting cadence and rigour for the AI specialist motion; ensuring consistent methodology, regular inspection, and leadership-ready outputs
- Serve as the primary operational partner connecting AI Product Specialists with RevOps, GTM Ops, Product, Engineering, Data teams, and Finance
- Monitor and improve compliance via enablement, audits, and system guardrails; especially during transitions or integrations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Sales Operations or Revenue Operations within SaaS or AI-driven environments
- Demonstrable experience leading or co-leading M&A sales integration programmes, including CRM migration, quota rationalisation, and process unification
- Track record of designing and delivering process harmonisation at scale across disparate teams, geographies, or acquired businesses
- Strong operational rigour with a passion for accuracy, data integrity, and process improvement; particularly in complex or rapidly evolving organisational settings
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and influence without direct authority in matrixed and multi-unit organisations
- Enthusiasm for AI technologies and their role in transforming sales and customer experience
- Highly autonomous, proactive, and resilient navigating change and scale.
- Proficient in Salesforce CRM and related sales acceleration tools
- Fluency in data tools; SQL, Snowflake or similar; and automation methodologies
- Familiarity with AI product ecosystems and integrating disparate systems is a strong plus
- Demonstrated experience using LLM-based tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) to improve delivery speed, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance analytical workflows.
Benefits
- Remote work options
- Competitive salary
- Benefits or related incentives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Sales OperationsRevenue OperationsM&A integrationCRM migrationquota rationalisationprocess unificationdata integritySQLSnowflakeautomation methodologies
Soft Skills
operational rigourcross-functional collaborationinfluence without authorityautonomousproactiveresilientpassion for accuracyprocess improvemententhusiasm for AI technologiesability to navigate change