Director of Operations
Have you ever wondered what happens inside the cloud?
Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.
We want people who are passionate about building innovative processes and tools that enable sales professionals to do their best work.
We are looking for an experienced Sales Operations/Sales Development professional who can be the right hand to the Chief Customer Officer and has worked with a broad portfolio of sales metrics, processes, and tools. You understand SMB and high volume inside selling processes and have experience implementing new processes in a rapidly growing sales organization.
In a Director of Sales Operations role at DigitalOcean, you’ll be instrumental in helping to build the company’s future. You will support our sales professionals and others through the design, implementation, and operational execution of end-to-end processes and tools. You will build a sales development function that will start small but quickly grows. You will eventually hire/promote managers to run sales development. You are looking to come in at the ground floor, to apply your skills and experience to develop the business processes and tools needed to help maximize DigitalOcean’s sales performance.
Priorities include collaborating with marketing on all lead generation tools & processes, collaborating with finance and product on quotes to cash processes and tools, working with sales management on sales metrics, sales process, tools, territory and quota model and go-to-market planning. Partnering with key functions in the company (Sales, Finance, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Product Management, etc.) is essential to shaping revenue strategy, optimizing execution across all channels, and enabling our company to scale rapidly. Critical functions include managing the sales development/lead generation programs, system management, planning, reporting, sales process optimization, sales program implementation, and sales policy definition and management.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Provide overall leadership and management of Operations for Customer Support & Success as well as the Go to Market ( Sales) function utilizing Data Science / Analytics to cover: systems, 3rd party vendors, operational execution, reporting, policy development, and management
- Provide overall leadership and management of Customer Journey from onboarding through monetization phases to cover: recruiting, people management, the setting of processes & tools, measurement, and delivery of retention and expansion opportunities
- Identify, continuously improve, and integrate all sales processes and policies, including but not limited to, lead management process, commissions, sales recruiting and hiring, etc.
- Develop and execute standardized sales performance reporting and analysis with the goal of making specific recommendations to support management decision making. Develop and maintain standard daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the sales team
- Implement comprehensive pipeline reporting tools tracking opportunities from lead generation to acquisition, account development/scale, and retention
- Own lead distribution and management in collaboration with marketing and sales
- Lead cross-functional initiatives and collaborating closely with sales, marketing, customer success, and finance
What We Expect From You:
- 8+ years experience in Customer Support & Success Operations, Sales Operations and/or Data Science & Analytics (Capacity Management, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Forecasting, Retention & Expansion) experience strongly preferred
- Managing a growing team of Data Science and Analytics professionals along with CSS Operations and GTM Operations Analysts focused on customer retention and expansion from the onboarding phase through monetization through revenue management.
- Excellent analytical, business intelligence skills ( identify signal from noise)
- Expertise in Salesforce and the Salesforce ecosystem and other sales / support / data science related software and tools
- Experience building a sales operations, CSS operations and/or Data Science organization that continually improves retention and expansion of customers
- Demonstrated a focus on being able to translate data and metrics into predictable business insight
- Ability and credibility to work with the VP of Customer Support & Success, VP of GTM, VP of Revenue Marketing and VP FPA along with the extended leadership team lead and facilitate cross-company initiatives
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communications skills
- Determined to create a performance and metrics focused culture
- High growth, start-up exposure is ideal
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
- We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs. We also provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- We care about your physical, financial and mental well-being. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a commute or internet allowance to make your trips to your office or your desk easier. We offer generous parental leave with transition time built-in upon return to work. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match.
- We support our remote employee experience. While we have great office spaces in NYC, Cambridge and Palo Alto, we’re very distributed—we use a number of communication tools to connect across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to visit our offices and meet their teams face-to-face at team offsites. We also have an annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the entire company at least once a year. We also allow employees to outfit their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.