Sales & Operations Manager
Thinkster
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Thinkster in Pune is seeking a versatile Sales and Operations Manager to blend sales strategy, operations, and creative support across web design and digital marketing. If you’re a generalist with 4–7 years of experience, this role uses all your skills in a fast-paced agency environment.
You’ll lead cross-functional teams, own pipeline health, and help shape how we grow, present ourselves to clients, and scale operations. This is a true hybrid role with broad influence and growth potential.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Design, or related field.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement sales strategies to meet business goals.
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Job description
Thinkster Careers · Pune 2026
Looking for a Sales and Operations Manager Job in Pune that goes beyond spreadsheets and pipeline reviews? Thinkster is hiring a versatile, multi-skilled manager who can drive sales strategy, run operations, and contribute to web design, digital marketing, and graphic design. If you’re a generalist with 4–7 years of experience and want a role that finally uses all of your skills — this is it.
Sales and Operations Manager Job in Pune · Thinkster 2026
Most operations manager jobs in Pune are narrow. You either run sales, or you run operations, or you handle marketing — rarely all three. The result is a lot of capable people stuck in one lane, doing work that uses 30% of what they’re actually good at.
This sales and operations manager job in Pune is built differently. It’s a deliberate hybrid role — designed for the kind of person who can close a sales call in the morning, audit a workflow at lunch, push live changes to the company website in the afternoon, and brief a designer on a brochure before logging off. If that sounds chaotic, this isn’t the role for you. If it sounds like a normal Tuesday — keep reading.
At Thinkster, we work across branding, digital marketing, and web design. We need a manager who understands how all three connect, because that’s how modern agencies actually scale. You’ll have a direct say in how we grow, how we operate, and how we present ourselves to the world.
A lot of hybrid role job in Pune are hybrid only on the JD. In practice, you end up doing one thing 90% of the time. Ours isn’t that. The role is genuinely split across three areas — and we’re hiring specifically because we need someone who can hold all three.
- Develop and implement sales strategies to meet business goals
- Lead, train, and supervise sales and operations staff
- Monitor daily business operations and optimize workflows
- Prepare sales reports, forecasts, and performance analyses
- Maintain strong relationships with customers and partners
- Own pipeline health, conversion metrics, and revenue forecasting
- Manage and update the company website — UI/UX, content, layout
- Develop digital marketing campaigns across social, email, and web
- Improve website visibility through SEO and analytics-driven decisions
- Create engaging online marketing content to grow brand presence
- Coordinate with the design and content teams on campaign rollouts
- Produce marketing materials — brochures, flyers, banners, social graphics
- Maintain consistent visual brand identity across all platforms
- Collaborate with teams to design presentations and promotional assets
- Brief and review external designers when scaling output
We’re not looking for someone who’s the deepest expert in any single discipline. We’re looking for someone who’s genuinely competent across all of them. There’s a real difference. The operations manager we’re hiring in Pune needs to be confident enough in sales to lead a team, sharp enough in operations to fix broken workflows, and skilled enough in design and marketing to ship work without needing constant handholding.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Design, or related field
- 4–7 years of experience in sales, operations, or managerial roles
- Proficiency in web design — WordPress, Wix, HTML/CSS or similar
- Strong graphic design skills — Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, or equivalent
- Working knowledge of Google Analytics, Meta Business Suite, and SEO tools
- Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills
- Experience in content creation and brand building
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong analytical mindset paired with creative problem-solving
- Prior agency or digital marketing industry experience
- Comfort with reporting tools — Sheets, Notion, HubSpot, or similar
- Confidence presenting to founders, clients, and team leads
There are plenty of sales manager jobs in Pune available right now. Most of them ask for the same thing — pipeline, targets, team management, and the usual KPI dashboard. After two years, you’ve seen the playbook. After four years, you’re bored.
This sales manager vacancy in Pune is intentionally different. You’ll own sales targets, yes — but you’ll also shape how we go to market, what our website looks like, how our brand is perceived, and how operations scale as we grow. It’s the kind of role that prepares you for a head of business or COO seat down the line, not just the next sales manager position.
If you’ve been looking at digital marketing manager jobs in Pune but feeling boxed in by the JD, this marketing operations manager role gives you the wider canvas you’ve been wanting. You’ll connect what marketing produces with what operations executes — and you’ll have the seniority to push back when those two get out of sync.
You’ll also work alongside our creative team on larger social media marketing campaigns and contribute strategic direction to branding and rebranding projects for our clients. Your impact won’t stop at internal operations — it’ll show up in the work we deliver.
The corporate world has spent two decades training people to specialize. The agency world rewards the opposite — generalists who can move between functions, hold context across teams, and make decisions without waiting for committee approval. If you’ve felt like a square peg in specialist round holes, this sales operations job in Pune is built exactly for you.
You won’t be told to “stay in your lane.” Your lane is the whole road.
“Specialists keep things running. Generalists move things forward.”
- Competitive salary — your performance sets the pace, not a rigid grade structure
- Real growth, real leads, real wins — no synthetic targets, no inflated metrics
- A seat at the Thinkster table — direct access to founders and decision-making
- Diverse exposure across sales, operations, marketing, and design
- Clear path toward senior leadership and head-of-business tracks
- Modern Bavdhan, Pune office with the snacks situation handled (yes, that matters)
A sales and operations manager job in Pune at an agency is one of the most flexible career stepping stones available right now. You can grow into a head of business position internally, move into agency leadership elsewhere, transition into client-side operations at scale, or even use the experience as a foundation for starting your own venture. The skills compound across every direction.
At Thinkster specifically, top performers in this role progress toward head of sales & operations, business head, or partner-track positions within 18–24 months. We don’t believe in keeping good people stuck.
Is this a sales role or an operations role?
Both. The role is intentionally hybrid — roughly split between sales strategy, operations management, and supporting marketing/design execution. If you want pure sales or pure ops, this isn’t the right fit.
Do I need to be a designer or web developer to apply?
No — but you need working proficiency. You should be comfortable updating a WordPress site, briefing designers, running a Canva or Photoshop edit, and reading analytics. Mastery isn’t required; competence is.
Is the 4–7 years experience requirement strict?
It’s our preferred range. If you’re at 3 years with exceptional hybrid skills, or at 8+ years and the role excites you, apply anyway. Fit matters more than the year count.
What’s the compensation range?
Competitive and benchmarked against the Pune agency market for hybrid managerial roles. Final offer depends on your experience, skill mix, and interview performance.
Branding & Rebranding Services — The kind of strategic brand work you’ll help shape from the operations side.
Social Media Marketing Services — The campaigns and digital marketing work you’ll coordinate with the marketing team on.
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