Sales Strategy & Operations (Sr.) Associate, Enterprise

About the Role

As a member of our Sales Strategy and Operations team, you will have an integral role in driving the insights, operations, and strategy that enable 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.

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 an Associate on the team, you will lead cross-functional initiatives from ideation to analytics to recommendations to drive impact across the sales organization.

What You’ll Do

• Overall
• Serve as the strategy and operations partner with our Enterprise sales leadership.
• Make the sales motion run more effectively, efficiently, and ultimately drive higher bookings at sustainable cost.
• Bring a mix of analytical skills, nose for value, operational chops, and communication while operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced environment.

• What This Role Entails
  • Strategy & operations partnership: help Enterprise sales leaders develop their strategies, as well as the tactics that underpin these strategies. Run point on operationalizing these strategies on a daily basis.
  • P&L management: work closely with sales and finance leaders to plan and manage the 100+ person Enterprise business from a headcount, revenue, and cost standpoint.
  • Operational ownership: identify pain points in the sales motion, and drive operational improvements directly or by serving as a product manager with our team’s software engineers to support the growth of the Enterprise organization.Analytical insights: develop reporting and analyses that help the sales team to sell strategically and better understand their business. Scope and execute analytical special projects to help us understand what drives success in Enterprise.
  • Cross-functional partnership: partner with other critical parts of the business (marketing, product, supply chain, finance, etc.) to drive value and efficiency to the Enterprise organization. Provide the sales perspective to these other stakeholders and drive connectivity between the sales team and other business units.

What You Bring

• High-impact self-starter: you take initiative to move projects forward and can operate well with little guidance. You’re excited by the possibility of leading cross-functional workstreams and generating buy-in among senior leadership.
• Raw smarts: we are looking for people who can look at complex problems and solve them start to finish.
• Strong analytical skills: you nerd out about data, can quickly structure analyses to answer key business questions to drive decision-making, and will also have perspectives on building the right data architecture. Excel skills are a must; SQL / Tableau / Looker experience a plus.
• Process and operational thinking: you can tackle a problem independently and quickly iterate to a solution, and then also document it in a way that's easy to understand for all audiences. Previous Salesforce experience is a plus.
• Communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to be able to connect with sales reps and hardware engineers alike to figure out how we build the right processes and workflows to drive efficiency while also giving us the data to measure how we're doing. Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
• Flexibility and hustle: you manage change and ambiguity well, and have no problems juggling multiple priorities while executing in a fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable pivoting quickly and often.
• Prior experience in high impact functions: 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, banking, private equity, corporate strategy, or a startup. Previous Sales, Sales Operations, or Strategy experience is a plus. Bachelors or masters from a top school preferred.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Starting January 2027, Verkada will match a portion of an employee’s 401(k) contributions based on eligible earnings. Match vests on 2 year anniversary
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits