Sales Strategy and Operations Division Lead

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who We Are</strong></h3> <p>Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.<br><br>Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100 companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.</p></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"> <h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>As a member of our Sales Strategy and Operations team, you will have an integral role in driving the insights, operations, and strategy that enables Sales to run better, faster, and smarter. Sales Strategy and Operations is an excellent platform to learn how a business really runs. Prior candidates that our leadership team has worked with have gone on to be VPs and COOs of companies.</p> <p>You will be joining the Sales Strategy and Operations team as a high impact contributor, gaining exposure to a wide variety of challenges, processes, and data that makes the engine of this Sales organization hum. As a Division Lead on the team, you will lead cross-functional initiatives from ideation to analytics to recommendations to drive impact across the sales organization.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Overall:</strong></li> <ul> <li>Serve as the strategy and operations partner with our ATX sales leadership</li> <li>Our mandate is to make the sales motion run more effectively, efficiently, and ultimately drive higher bookings at sustainable cost</li> <li>This requires a mix of analytical skills, nose for value, operational chops, and communication when operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced environment</li> </ul> <li><strong>What this role entails:</strong></li> <ul> <li><em>Strategy & ops partnership with leadership</em></li> <ul> <li>Be the strategy and operational partner with sales leaders</li> <li>Help the sales leaders to develop their strategies, as well as the tactics that underpin these strategies</li> <li>Partner with sales leaders to operationalize the strategy on a daily basis </li> </ul> <li><em>Workflow improvement: </em> </li> <ul> <li>Identify pain points in the sales motion and workflows could be improved</li> <li>Scope out solutions and implement directly or serve as a product manager with our team's software engineers on automation solutions</li> </ul> <li><em>Analytical asset-building</em></li> <ul> <li>Develop analytical tools that help the sales team to sell strategically and better-understand their business</li> <li>Scope and execute analytical special projects that help us better understand our business and what drives success. Apply these learnings to drive operational changes in the business</li> </ul> <li><em>Be the glue that connects sales reps to the rest of the business</em></li> <ul> <li>Understand how the sales team workflows connect with other parts of the business (marketing, product, supply chain, finance, etc.)</li> <li>Relay insights from the sales team to other pa ... (truncated, view full listing at source)