Data Strategy Associate, Global Revenue Informatics

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% healthcare premiums covered for employees

Flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Job summary

A leading security technology firm in San Mateo is seeking an Associate for their Sales Strategy and Operations team. The role involves improving data quality to drive revenue growth, designing internal products, and evaluating vendors. Ideal candidates are analytical self-starters with excellent communication skills and a degree from a top school. Prior experience in consulting or startups is preferred, and the position requires onsite work five days a week. The annual pay range is $125,000 to $165,000.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in consulting, corporate strategy, or a startup.
• High-impact self-starter who can operate well with little guidance.
• Must be willing to work onsite five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to use data to grow revenue.
• Design and oversee engineering development of internal products.
• Conduct market analyses and present vendor recommendations.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Communication skills

Process thinking

Ability to work cross-functional

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree

Tools

SQL

Looker

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100 companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.

Overview

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

Why Data?

• Data is the foundation of our go‑to‑market strategy. It supports all parts of our sales motion, including:
• Creating customer profiles to identify & target high value buyers
• Identifying & facilitating key growth opportunities, e.g., entering markets in previously untapped geographies
• Segmenting our sales team and defining sales representative patches
• Populating and maintaining an accurate universe of buyers

We recognize the importance of data to our scalability and success, and we aim to make it a core competency of our business.

What You'll Do

• Improve data quality & value: identify opportunities to use data to grow revenue. Find new methods for lead generation. Increase sales prospecting efficiency by improving the accuracy of our data.
• Design internal products: design and oversee the engineering development of revenue‑generating products for our sales team.
• Source & evaluate vendors: conduct market analyses to compare vendor capabilities to satisfy key business requirements; evaluate vendor quality & present recommendations to the leadership team.

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 working within a dynamic and fast‑paced environment.
• 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.
• Communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to be able to connect with sales reps, data engineers, and external vendors alike to figure out how we build the right processes and workflows to drive efficiency. Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
• 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.
• Bachelor's or master's degree from a top school; studies within a technical discipline preferred.
• 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, corporate strategy, or a startup.
• Excel skills are a must; SQL / Looker experience is a plus.
• Ability to work with cross‑functional teams in a dynamic and fast‑paced environment.
• Previous Sales, Sales Operations, or Strategy experience is a plus.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

US Employee Benefits

• 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
• 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
• Fertility stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

$125,000 — $165,000 USD

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