Senior Sales Strategy & Operations Manager

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Revenue Operations

This role is for a Senior Sales Strategy & Operations Manager at Intercom, an AI Customer Agent company. The primary focus is on building and scaling the enterprise sales operations function, acting as a strategic partner to sales leadership, optimizing sales processes, and driving operational excellence. The role involves analyzing sales data, generating insights, and identifying opportunities to leverage AI to enhance existing processes and automate workflows. While the company is AI-focused, the role itself is in sales operations, not directly building AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to Global Enterprise sales leaders, proactively understanding their challenges, identifying opportunities for improvement, and shaping clear, data-driven recommendations.
  2. Develop, support, and continuously refine scalable operational cadences for sales forecasting, quarterly business reviews, and performance reporting. Follow and improve clear, efficient intake processes for new Sales Operations requests, ensuring effective prioritization and execution.
  3. Own and drive cross-functional projects, leveraging industry best practices in areas such as sales forecasting methodology, defining and optimizing books of business and account coverage models, and Salesforce enhancements. Bring structure and momentum to complex, cross-functional initiatives.
  4. Collaborate with key stakeholders across Sales, Business Systems, Sales Enablement, Finance, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations to drive alignment and execution, ensuring processes and insights are tightly connected to stakeholder goals.
  5. Regularly analyze sales performance data, developing and maintaining robust dashboards and reporting frameworks. Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives and provide actionable insights and strategic recommendations to sales leadership on key trends, pipeline health, conversion rates, and areas for strategic intervention.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 7+ years of experience in Sales / Field Operations, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or AI company
  • Advanced Salesforce expertise: reporting, dashboards, data integrity, user administration, etc.
  • Exceptional analytical and data modeling skills: expert in Excel/Google Sheets; able to translate complex data into actionable insights
  • Strong project management skills: able to manage multiple projects from scope to delivery; organized and detail-oriented
  • Exceptional communication: clear, concise written and verbal skills; adept at presenting insights and recommendations to leadership
  • Strategic business acumen: able to translate sales strategy into operational plans; proactive, structured problem-solver with good judgment

Nice to have

  • Experience with Tableau, Clari, Gong, Outreach, SQL
  • Experience with working closely with Enterprise Sales Operations

What the JD emphasized

  • build and scale the new enterprise operations function
  • founding enterprise sales operations leader
  • defining the operations playbook
  • establish the foundations
  • strategic partner to our Enterprise Sales VP
  • manage complex workflows end-to-end
  • bring structure to ambiguous problems
  • significantly influence Intercom’s growth trajectory
  • drive predictable revenue growth
  • advanced Salesforce expertise
  • Exceptional analytical and data modeling skills
  • Strong project management skills
  • Exceptional communication
  • Strategic business acumen