Director, Sales Strategy & Operations

Role Overview

PagerDuty is seeking a Director, Sales & Customer Success Operations – Americas to serve as a senior operator and trusted advisor to our Americas Sales and Customer Success leadership. Reporting to the VP, Field Operations, you will lead sales planning and translate company strategy into a scalable, repeatable Americas go-to-market engine spanning the full customer lifecycle across Commercial, Mid-Market, and Enterprise segments.

What You Will Do

You will lead a team of sales and customer success operations professionals and a portfolio of strategic go-to-market initiatives. You will not own the sales or customer success technology stack; instead, you will partner closely with IT, Applications, and other stakeholders to evolve the processes and systems that support the Americas Sales and Customer Success organizations.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in GTM strategy and operations, ideally in the cloud computing space. They will have a passion for problem-solving and an ability to think strategically and execute methodically, while identifying the root cause for the identified problems.

Requirements

• 10+ years in management consulting, sales, customer success, or business operations, GTM strategy, or business planning in enterprise software or large-scale tech
• SaaS/Consumption experience with deep understanding of ARR and consumption models and their metrics (bookings, pipeline coverage, GRR/NRR, churn, expansion)
• 3+ years of direct people management leading sales ops, CS ops, strategy, or analytics teams
• Track record leading sales planning and running the sales operating cadence with senior Sales leaders
• Track record driving new-business and renewal forecasting, pipeline analytics, and performance governance with senior Sales and CS leaders
• Coverage models, territory and book-of-business governance, quota setting, and capacity planning for a multi-segment Sales and CS org
• Customer lifecycle programs: health scoring, onboarding, renewal management, churn mitigation
• Strong command of metrics and business modeling
• Executive-level communication with VP- and C-level audiences
• Hands-on operator balancing strategy and execution
• Translating business needs into requirements for IT and Applications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company equity
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
• Retirement or pension plan
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty – companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs

Tagged as: Forecasting, Quota Setting