Sales Operations Manager, Intercom

$132.3-153.7k

+ Equity

SQL
Looker
Salesforce
Redshift
Snowflake
Intercom
Clearbit
Demandbase
Outreach
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Intercom

The modern customer communications platform

Open for applications

Intercom

The modern customer communications platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseCommunicationCustomer serviceSaaSAutomation

Open for applications

$132.3-153.7k

+ Equity

SQL
Looker
Salesforce
Redshift
Snowflake
Intercom
Clearbit
Demandbase
Outreach
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseCommunicationCustomer serviceSaaSAutomation

Company mission

Intercom's mission is to make internet business personal.

Role

Who you are

  • We’re looking for a proactive, independent thinker, with sound business acumen and excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • You are able to work in a structured manner to thrive in ambiguity and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to dive into business challenges and create solutions to problems that have never been tackled before
  • 4+ years experience in Sales Operations/Marketing Operations/Project Management role in SaaS
  • Experience in dealing with complex, cross-functional deal/contract management across cross-functional teams
  • Understand existing Salesforce CRM and Sales Systems core processes and how new Go-To-Market motions will impact existing processes
  • Strong structured problem solving skills along with ability to demonstrate practical judgment in complex situations
  • Able to work with a high degree of autonomy, particularly within a global setting
  • Exceptionally strong communication skills, including experience effectively communicating with senior management
  • Willing to work in a highly demanding and results-oriented team environment
  • Strong proficiency in Salesforce (administration for sales teams, reporting, data management), sales engagement tools (Outreach, SalesLoft, Gong Engage)
  • Bachelor’s degree

Desirable

  • Background working in high-growth, performance-focused environments
  • Experience working at Product-Led Growth companies with self-serve and sales commercial models
  • Knowledge of software revenue recognition principles would be an advantage
  • Proficiency in enrichment tools (ClearBit, ZoomInfo, Clay), intent data tools (6sense, Demandbase), and sales prospecting tools (e.g. LinkedIn Sales Navigator)
  • Basic knowledge of SQL and experience querying databases (Snowflake, Redshift, Looker)

What the job involves

  • You’ll have an exciting opportunity to influence the trajectory of Intercom's overall business, partner with our senior Sales, Sales Operations, and Business System leaders, and take on an operating role with an exciting and fast growing company that aims to fundamentally change the way companies interact with their customers
  • As a Sales Operations Manager, you will help make the global sales team and sales operations team more effective and productive by using a scaled approach to crack the most important operational and systems challenges across the lead-to-opportunity ecosystem
  • Our team will be responsible for owning the GTM Operations quarterly project roadmap, identifying gaps and making improvements in sales process and technology, and project managing the implementation and enablement of new go-to-market initiatives
  • Act as an advisor to sales and cross-functional leadership by delivering data-driven recommendations to help optimize the sales process and achieve strategic priorities
  • Manage a wide range of key projects for the business such as implementing and optimizing sales tools, launching process improvement initiatives, processes and systems to maintain CRM data quality, company-wide initiatives and other highly diverse projects
  • Proactively identify process inefficiencies and opportunities for scale in existing workflows and map out programs to drive improvements
  • Work independently on projects, and apply judgment in resolving issues or in making recommendations
  • Develop strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders in Sales, Legal, Business Systems, Marketing, and other key teams across the company
  • Keep leadership team informed of status and risk of owned programs and projects

Our take

If you've ever seen a chat pop up on a business' website, it was probably provided by Intercom. Though ubiquitous now, it used to be a major challenge for companies to communicate swiftly with their customers. Intercom's Messenger allows a company to instantly reach out with human or automated support, improving customer service and greatly increasing conversion rates for sales.

While the Messenger is its most visible product, Intercom provides a service similar to Salesforce, as an advanced customer relationship management system. However, Intercom doesn't see Salesforce as a major rival, as Intercom specialises in the online market while Salesforce is more suited for traditional retail. Intercom is used by more than 25,000 businesses including Amazon, Meta and Atlassian, and reaches an estimated 600 million end users monthly.

Intercom has primarily served the US and Irish markets but has been expanding its presence globally in recent years. Despite having a commanding market position, it is continuing to develop its product, most recently delivering a major functionality upgrade to its Messenger software, greatly increasing its ability to carry out ticketed support requests.

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41% female employees

-7% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Mar 2018

$125m

SERIES D

Apr 2016

$50m

SERIES C

Total funding: $240.8m

Company benefits

  • We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
  • Generous public transport allowance for commuting
  • Wellness programme that allows you to expense gym and other sports activities up to £90 quarterly
  • Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
  • Open vacation policy and flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
  • Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work
  • MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done

Company values

  • We're optimistic & positive
  • We obsess about our customers' success
  • We're confident, yet humble
  • We think big and start small
  • We go further together
  • Make every day count

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Eoghan McCabe

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously CEO of Contrast and Exceptional. Is also the Chairman of Intercom.

Des Traynor

(Co-founder & CSO)

Previously worked in software development and is an expert in User Experience (has lectured on the topic and was UX Lead at Contrast)

Ciaran Lee

(Co-founder)

Previously Lead Engineer at RateMyArea.com and CTO of Exceptional. Was Intercom's CTO until 2021.


People progressing

Joined as a Manager in Product Analytics. Made it to VP of Research & Data Science after 6 years and 3 promotions

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