Zendesk

Sales Operations Lead

Zendesk

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: AustinTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $118,000 - $178,000 per year

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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