Director of revenue operations

Posted:
8/26/2024, 1:49:41 PM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Operations & Logistics

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

✍🏽 About Writer

Writer is the full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises. Named one of the top 50 companies in AI by Forbes, Writer empowers hundreds of customers like Accenture, Intuit, L’Oreal, and Vanguard to transform the way they work. 

Our all-in-one solution makes it easy to deploy customized AI apps and workflows that accelerate growth, increase productivity, and ensure compliance. Designed to provide enterprise-grade accuracy, security, and efficiency, Writer’s suite of development tools is supported by Palmyra – Writer’s state-of-the-art family of LLMs – alongside our industry-leading graph-based RAG and customizable AI guardrails. 

Founded in 2020 with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London, Writer is backed by strategic investors, including ICONIQ Growth, Insight Partners, WndrCo, Balderton Capital, and Aspect Ventures. 

Our team of over 200 employees thinks big and moves fast, and we’re looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work.

📐 About this role

We are looking for an execution-oriented leader to help us own and scale our revenue operations as we look to rapidly build our sales and CS departments. You’ll operate as the primary strategic and operational partner to our sales and CS leaders, helping them build a repeatable GTM motion that helps accelerate revenue growth. 

You’ll be managing a team of full-time employees and contractors that’ll help you execute the day-to-day activities. However, you’ll still need to roll up your sleeves and do the work. You’ll work alongside a manager who's built all of the initial infrastructure, who can help you onboard, and provide context on current state, and can work alongside you in the trenches.

Lastly, our ideal candidate is comfortable relying on unconventional ways to scale out an ops team, right-sized for 2024 SaaS operating efficiency expectations. You’ll rely on automation, AI, systems, documentation, contractors, and high-performance teams to do 3x more than other comparable revenue ops orgs. It’ll be challenging, but you’ll be pioneering the future state of revenue operations in SaaS.

What’s in it for you

It’s an incredibly dynamic role — you’ll jump from highly stimulating topics that span high-level GTM strategy, roadmaps, and execution plans. You’ll lead key projects that are directly tied to impact. 

You’ll work on a team that gives you a high degree of autonomy, trusts your intuition, and invests in your growth. We're action and impact oriented. We value high-quality execution and strive to create a working environment that allows you to move fast and learn. 

You’ll work with a manager who also “shovels dirt” and rolls up their sleeves to get work done; they’ll have “done it before” and so will have a deeper empathy for your day-to-day. Your manager will also provide context and visibility, allowing you to build deeper relationships and intuition that’ll help you scale out your impact. 

For someone self-motivated and with a problem-solving mindset, you’ll find a greenfield opportunity. You’ll own and scale out a revenue operations function that's one of the best in SaaS. There'll be opportunities to build horizontally through cross-functional initiatives as well as vertically as you become a trusted advisor across revenue leadership. 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities

  • Business partner: collaborate with GM of International to bring Writer to EMEA, APAC, and beyond

  • Forecast: Work with the sales leadership team to integrate deal reviews with top-line revenue forecasts. Standardize definitions and align it with our sales process and methodology

  • Reporting: Build reporting and dashboards that create clarity for the rest of the organization, primarily within Salesforce or our BI tool. Reporting requests can span from ad-hoc reporting for sales reps, to board-level reporting

  • Territories: Create a territory-carving process, using technology, and sync it with hiring projections, GTM strategy, and marketing/SDR pipeline initiatives. Create alignment with all GTM functions on which territories and accounts to tackle

  • Automation: You’re constantly identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies and looking for ways to untangle them

📊 Metrics you’ll review and/or be accountable for

  • Sales productivity

  • Revenue & pipeline forecasts

  • Sales velocity

  • Sales capacity

  • Renewal rates and adoption

⭐️ Is this you?

  • 7+ years of experience working in a Saas operations role, preferably an enterprise sales operations org

  • A working understanding of how to build sales territories, capacity models, and commission plans. A bonus if you’ve built them yourself

  • High Salesforce proficiency 

  • High Google sheets/Excel proficiency — you’ll need to be able to do lookups, pivots, index/match, build driver/assumption based models, etc. 

  • Strong project management and process mapping skills - ability to distill complex situations into concrete actionable steps

  • Strong working knowledge of how to use a BI tool, navigate data schemas, and work with our data leader to get the right insights

  • A swiss-army knife that can bounce between a variety of topics (territories, commissions, tech stack, forecasts, etc) and quickly ramp up using first principles thinking

  • Experience using cutting-edge SaaS GTM technology that’s similar to our stack

  • Thrives in ambiguity and can create paved roads from dirt paths

AND

  • High intellectual curiosity and a proclivity to lean into a new subject matter

  • A trusted advisor and partner for all levels of the organization

  • Intrinsically motivated: you set the highest possible bar for what you build and ship

  • An eye for spotting an opportunity, intuition for determining which ones to prioritize, and courage to follow through

  • Possesses humility — no work is too trivial if it’s impactful

  • Resilient and open to honest (and kind) feedback; tough skin

  • Self-aware and committed to learning the why for both successes and failures

  • Proactive communication skills, both sync and async

  • Experience managing and building relationships across multiple departments and stakeholder levels

  • A natural affinity to our values of connect, challenge, own

Tech stack

We rely heavily on Salesforce as our source of truth. These are some of the tools we use across teams: 

Marketing: Hubspot, 6Sense, Leandata

Sales: Apollo, LinkedIn, RevOps, Gong, CaptivateIQ

Customer success: Vitally, Matik, Amplitude

Curious to learn more about who we are and how we operate? Visit us here

🍩 Benefits & perks

  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family

  • Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

  • Fertility and family planning support

  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options

  • Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution

  • Annual work-life stipends for:

    • Home office setup, cell phone, internet

    • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

    • Learning and development stipend

  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

  • Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

Writer is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Writer

Website: https://writer.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 51-100

Year Founded: 2020

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Series B

Industries: Content ⋅ Generative AI ⋅ Natural Language Processing ⋅ Productivity Tools ⋅ Software ⋅ Virtual Assistant