Sales Operations Director

Cohesity, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vacation days

401(k) retirement plan

Equity grants

Job summary

Cohesity, Inc. seeks an experienced Sales Operations leader to scale Americas business. You will partner with Area VP and District Sales leaders to align strategy with execution, champion forecast accuracy, and drive efficiency across finance, pricing, renewals, and channel functions.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, data-driven decision making, and building scalable processes in a fast-growth enterprise software environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of experience in technology, with at least 7 years in Sales Operations, Finance or Sales Leadership.
• Experience leading Sales Operations in high-growth, enterprise software companies.
• Strong decision-making, prioritization, and deadlines discipline.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sales strategies to achieve business objectives and financial targets.
• Collaborate with Global Revenue Operations to drive predictability and standardization.
• Oversee Area and District sales forecasts with emphasis on accuracy.
• Provide data-driven recommendations for performance and productivity improvements.
• Steward strategic deals across cross-functional teams (finance, legal, pricing, renewals, channel).

Skills

AI savvy

Forecast management

Sales operations

Multi-channel sales

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SFDC

Analytics tools

Job description

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.
We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.
Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

This role is critical in further scaling our established and expanding Americas business. It is a visible role that reports to the VP of Americas Field Operations and works closely with Sales leaders in our Americas business. You will establish a close partnership with the Area VP and District Sales leaders who run our Western strategic and enterprise account segments.

The focus of the role spans strategy formulation through to tactical execution, and related measurement, analysis, planning and reporting details. You must be able to work cross-functionally to drive efficiency, predictability and performance growth + scale. As a trusted advisor to the sales leaders, you must be capable of acting on their behalf in helping run the business. You are expected to support, implement and often create Americas-wide initiatives designed to advance alignment with, and achievement of, strategy and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Work with Sales Leaders to develop and implement sales strategies designed to achieve overall business objectives and financial targets, including predictability of the business.
• Work with the Global Revenue Operations organization, including peers, to drive business predictability, standardization and optimization, while ensuring the needs of the Area business is met.
• Develop, oversee and guide Area and District sales forecasts with a focus on accuracy and predictability.
• Analyze and assess all aspects of the Americas operations. Proactively provide recommendations on performance and productivity improvement strategies and actions & execute the strategies and actions to do so.
• Steward the most strategic deals through the cross functional (finance, legal, pricing, OM, renewals, Channel, etc) landscape.
• Steward compensation related planning efforts, including territory optimization, quota setting, and enablement.
• Direct efforts for centralized Revenue Operations teams/resources to ensure Americas business objectives are met. Be a voice for the field in doing so.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of experience in the technology industry, with at least 7 of those years working in Sales Operations, Finance or Sales Leadership .
• Previous experience in a Sales Operations leadership role in a high growth, complex selling, enterprise software business.
• Results-oriented with strong decision-making skills and the ability to prioritize multiple objectives while meeting aggressive deadlines and financial targets.
• AI savvy, with ability to leverage and create AI output and business value. Must be able to show how you have the intellectual curiosity to leverage and put AI tools to use to drive business outcomes.
• Ability to provide consultative input to Sales leaders and Revenue Operations leaders regarding performance and productivity; suggest optimal solutions to achieve business objectives.
• Willing to contribute in all areas of the business, including outside the typical scope of Revenue Operations, to support scaling the business.
• Expertise in forecast management, pipeline management, deal inspection, SFDC, analytics, and reporting.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of enterprise sales models, including multi-channel distribution.
• Experience doing data analysis, modeling, and/or financial analysis to support and drive business decisions.
• Passion for delivering high quality deliverables against challenging timelines
• Ability to build relationships with all levels and across all functions of the company.
• Natural self-starter with the ability to identify and influence key business drivers.
• Strong organizational and time management skills along with the ability to work independently (self starter) to achieve results
• You understand what it means, and how, to drive sales effectiveness
• Bachelor's degree required in either a business or technology discipline.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Rarely do opportunities such as this arise. The chance to play a significant role in a pre-IPO company completely disrupting the market, with a TAM that is through the roof, referenceability & size that belies the age of the company, investors & partners of superior stature and a growth rate that confounds market dynamics.

We operate at an intensity that is not for everyone. We expect a lot of each other, andwe support each other relentlessly.

This is a visible role. The successful candidate will be expected to hit the ground running, which means experience in a similar role is essential. Your career has been preparing you for this opportunity and you will know what to do when you get here. Please consider your personal attributes, passions and career aspirations before applying.

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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

$225,000.00-$250,000.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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