Verkada - Sales Strategy and Operations Associate, EMEA
Requirements
• 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 is 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. • 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, banking, private equity, corporate strategy, or a startup. Bachelor's or master's from a top school preferred. • Previous Sales, Sales Operations, or Strategy experience is a plus. • Must be willing and able to work on-site five days per week
Responsibilities
• Strategy & ops partnership with leadership • Be the strategy and operational partner with sales leaders • Help the sales leaders to develop their strategies, as well as the tactics that underpin these strategies • Partner with sales leaders to operationalize the strategy daily • Driving actionable (analytical) insight • You’ll be working in Salesforce, Google Sheets / Excel, and AI tools daily, while also talking frequently with internal and external stakeholders to help identify key bottlenecks, root causes of issues, and potential solutions • You'll also be expected to translate these insights into actionable takeaways for other departments and build consensus around future courses of action • Implementing operational improvements: • This isn't an ivory tower role. You'll play a key role in implementing improvements in current workflows and processes across a wide variety of stakeholders. Members of the team are responsible for owning EMEA's pipegen number, selection of our top partners, and owning key systems • Since we're still in scrappy startup mode, there's a lot of rolling up your sleeves and getting into the weeds to drive direct impact daily. We knock out today's problems while also balancing our need to build for the long-term.
Benefits
• Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to: • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 100% for family premiums • Private medical and dental coverage • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits • Retirement saving options • Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, generous time off, and personal sick time • Wellness/fitness benefits • Professional development stipend • Healthy lunches provided daily • Commuter benefits • At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs) • Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable). • $125,000—$165,000 USD
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