Director of Sales Operations

Posted:
11/20/2024, 8:17:51 AM

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Operations & Logistics ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Life at Plume

At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster, it's about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world's first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale.

We now deliver services to over 50 million locations globally and have managed over 2.5 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world's largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data. 

With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it. It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.

The Director of Sales Operations is responsible for improving the effectiveness of our sales team and ensuring the right tools, processes, and infrastructure are in place to support and drive
exceptional sales results. You will support the rapid growth of the go-to-market teams and guide our sales organization toward achieving our sales, revenue, operational, and strategic goals. This is an important role at an exciting time for the company. Plume is an innovative, high-growth, customer-focused company in a large and growing market. If you are an energetic, self-managed professional with experience building and/or managing successful Sales Operations teams, we’d love to hear from you!


Responsibilities:

  • Help build and implement an efficient and successful Sales team at Plume.
  • Partner with senior sales leadership to identify opportunities to improve our sales process through optimization and automation. Facilitate successful implementation and adoption of new processes within the sales organization.Foster an organization of continuous process improvement.
  • Partner closely with Sales Enablement to ensure smooth onboarding and ramping of new salespeople and ongoing training and education of the entire salesforce.
  • Manage annual territory planning and quota setting. Manage account assignments and data quality within Salesforce.
  • Plan, develop, and implement sales compensation plans and incentives to drive desired sales behavior.
  • Identify and deploy sales tools and processes that enable better data capture, greater business insights, and more efficient sales motions.
  • Develop key performance metrics and dashboards that help the sales organization focus on performance drivers. Manage the evaluation and interpretation of data; identify trends that signal new opportunities or challenges. Convert data trends into actionable sales processes and tactics.
  • Manage the Deal Registration process for our Channel Programs, to effectively review, screen and qualify any incoming deal registrations or expiring registrations.
  • Professionally field and qualify incoming leads in Salesforce to ensure correct follow through actions are taken.
  • Initiate and lead projects designed to improve sales results, increase productivity/efficiency and/or reduce costs.
  • Partner with Marketing and other teams to build program materials including sales sheets, policies, and training.
  • Partner closely with the Deal Desk to drive an efficient and effective deal construction and closing process.
  • Manage and summarize weekly pipeline reviews and forecasting with Sales leaders.

Qualifications:

  • 7+ years experience in revenue operations, sales operations, or a business operations role.
  • Experience and knowledge of SaaS business models.
  • Strong Excel financial and data modeling skills.
  • Experience using Salesforce and evaluating and implementing other sales tools.
  • Cross-functional leadership experience with sales, marketing and finance teams.
  • Excellent deductive reasoning, analytical, verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Executive level relationship management.
  • Must be a builder with superior organizational skills.

About Plume

As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for CSPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 350 CSP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM. 

Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows CSPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.  

Backed by investors such as Insight Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Plume is now valued at $2.6B, having added over $500M in funding in 2021 alone.

Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.