Gtm Strategy & Operations Senior Associate - Sales Development & AI

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Boston, MA +1 · Sales Strategy

This role focuses on driving Sales Development Representative (SDR) productivity and pipeline generation by building, launching, and deploying AI-driven solutions and tools. The role involves strategic partnership with SDR leadership, defining the SDR AI roadmap, analyzing GTM data, and developing strategic roadmaps for scaling the SDR organization. While the role heavily involves AI, it is in the context of enhancing sales operations and productivity, not core AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and deploy SDR-focused solutions: Design, launch, and scale programs, processes, and tools that improve SDR effectiveness, efficiency, and pipeline generation (e.g., routing logic, outreach strategies, tooling improvements, workflow automation).
  2. Strategic partnership with SDR leadership: Partner directly with Sales Development leaders to shape team strategy, prioritize key initiatives, and execute against top objectives.
  3. SDR AI roadmap & execution: Define how we should leverage AI to better optimize our outbound & inbound motions
  4. GTM analysis and reporting: Analyze SDR and GTM data to identify trends, uncover performance gaps, and inform decision-making on coverage, segmentation, and channel efficiency.
  5. Strategic roadmap development: Help define and execute the roadmap for scaling the SDR organization in line with growth targets, identifying opportunities to optimize performance and productivity.

Skills

Required

  • 3–5 years in GTM/growth/revenue strategy, management consulting, investment banking/equity research, or a similar role
  • Builder mindset: Proven ability to go beyond strategy — you can design solutions and drive them through execution, rollout, and adoption
  • Creative problem solving: Comfort operating in ambiguity and structuring loosely defined problems
  • Strategic thinking: Ability to break down complex problems into structured insights and clear action plans
  • Quantitative analysis: Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail
  • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas for senior stakeholders
  • Ownership: Track record of working cross-functionally and taking responsibility for outcomes across Sales, Marketing, Strategy, and Product teams
  • Presentation skills: Ability to create and deliver presentations for senior and executive audiences

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Sales or SDR teams is a plus
  • Deep passion for AI: You keep up with the latest AI news, you have a passion for experimentation, you have fully integrated AI into your professional workflows, and you vibe code on the weekend
  • Interest in GTM AI innovation: Strong interest in exploring, launching, and scaling new GTM AI technologies to improve sales development productivity and effectiveness
  • Experience deploying GTM AI solutions and sales tooling
  • Experience working with or supporting Sales Development / SDR organizations
  • Experience manipulating and analyzing complex datasets using SQL and/or Python
  • Experience with Tableau or similar data visualization tools
  • Experience implementing GTM tools, workflows, or automation

What the JD emphasized

  • driving SDR productivity through AI solutions
  • actively test and deploy new AI-driven solutions
  • building, launching, and deploying solutions that improve SDR & sales productivity
  • designing and implementing initiatives end-to-end
  • Build and deploy SDR-focused solutions
  • SDR AI roadmap & execution
  • optimize our outbound & inbound motions
  • Deep passion for AI
  • fully integrated AI into your professional workflows
  • Interest in GTM AI innovation
  • launching, and scaling new GTM AI technologies
  • Builder mindset
  • drive them through execution, rollout, and adoption
  • Experience deploying GTM AI solutions and sales tooling