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Ably • London, United Kingdom

Sales Operations Manager (Remote)

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

Dog friendly

Job Description

Our Sales Operations Manager will report into our COO. You'll support our VP of Worldwide Sales and work in collaboration with our Sales organisation & Marketing Ops function to define, implement, and monitor our core revenue processes across all regions. You will enable our Sales and Customer Success teams to drive rapid growth through operational efficiency, process execution, data analysis and insights, and the selection and implementation of suitable methods and tooling to drive business outcomes. You will also take a primary role in driving proper documentation and execution of these processes, and assist in the coordination of sales enablement initiatives.

Duties:

  • Organise new Sales initiatives & document commercial processes, driving accountability and consistency in their execution

  • Collaborate with Marketing Operations to drive alignment between sales & marketing ops, ensuring streamlined revenue process & consistent execution in our funnel

  • Liaise with other departments (Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Operations, people) to drive operational needs of the Sales & CS departments

  • Create, optimise and promote the use of efficient sales and customer success processes, to continuously improve sales efficiency

  • Implement critical solutions in areas such as sales forecasting, historical analysis, sales enablement, lead qualification, sales commission plans, and more

  • Maintain and manage the Sales & Service portion of our CRM platform (HubSpot), and other tools in our Revenue tech stack

  • Partner with other teams to manage technical integrations between our product, our operational processes, and our Revenue tech stack.

  • Continually assess how to leverage new and existing tools in commercial teams and beyond, to generate maximum commercial success & improve our velocity

  • Analyse commercial metrics and KPIs, and alert Sales and Marketing leadership early of emerging trends, opportunities, and threats

  • Participate in analysing the performance of channels, messaging, propositions & content, helping commercial functions to allocate resources/investments for maximum yield

  • Promote documentation & enablement priorities to drive performance and continuous improvement for Sales & Customer Success roles, both as teams and as individuals

Requirements

  • University degree in business, finance, maths, engineering, or a related discipline

  • Extensive experience in a sales operations or other sales-analytics role, preferably in a high-growth, VC-funded tech startup or scale-up

  • Experience in driving process improvement & operational excellence across multiple focus areas: documentation, enablement, systems, and process

  • Positive attitude and ability to “roll-up their sleeves”, handling multiple priorities and projects simultaneously

  • Excellent communication capabilities, both written and verbal, plus able to influence at a senior level

  • Deep understanding of tooling used by cloud startups and scale-ups, including HubSpot, Sales Automation, Data Enrichment, BI, and Customer Data Management

  • Data-driven, highly analytical with excellent attention to detail

  • Strong capabilities in the following technical skills:
    • Commercial data modelling & architecture definition

    • Sales funnel & performance reporting processes

    • Reviewing the sales process, identifying drops in the funnels, highlighting and closing gaps in our visibility to the full customer journey

What’s it like to work at Ably?

Ably is entering a new phase of growth led by an experienced senior team. You’ll be part of a successful, highly motivated, and extremely collaborative team.

To provide the infrastructure required for the next generation of the internet, to tell the world about it, and to support everyone inside Ably to do so we hire people who are ready and capable of taking on challenging problems in a high-growth environment.

We want to work in a company of inclusive people who treat each other well. To really thrive at Ably, you’ll need to believe in and be prepared to do your work in line with our values, which are:

  • Open for all. Open is a mindset. When open, we’re better collaborators, communicators and creators. Whether open source, standards, or protocols, open hearts, minds, and eyes. It’s better when it’s open.

  • Bias for action. We avoid analysis paralysis at all costs. We lean into doing in order to move us forward. When we have enough of what we need to act, we act.

  • Even the best do better. We want to be the best - but that doesn’t mean we rest when we are. Improvement and growth - true betterment - is an ongoing journey. One fuelled by curiosity and taking risks.

  • Technology needs humanity. Our technology means little without people - whether that’s how we treat our colleagues, or how we design developer experiences. Being human matters.

  • Dependable people make dependable things. Dependability is integral to our mission and technology, but being dependable starts with our people. When we care enough to take real ownership of our products and problems - all else will follow.

  • Bold creativity leads to the greatest rewards. When viewed through a different lense, what stands in the way can become the way. The bigger the challenge the easier the choice: bold creativity will always move us forward, create better outcomes, and set us apart.

What’s in it for you?

  • A good, competitive salary

  • A great company culture

  • Share options

  • The chance to learn and grow with a fast-moving company, supported by a learning budget that gives you access to professional training, events, conferences, workshops etc.

  • Remote first: Unless you want to pop into our communal office space in Shoreditch, London, you’ll work from home most of the time, apart from when we have planning sessions and Summits. Travel to the office is at the employee's expense, apart from when we have Ably Summits

  • Your choice of high quality tech kit to work on

  • Home workstation set up budget of £500, plus an annual top-up of £150

  • Regular company away days and social events

  • Friday need-to-know drinks and snacks

  • Private health insurance, including Doctor@Hand

  • Access to private and confidential coaching or counselling via Sanctus

  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme with AXA

  • A monthly wellbeing budget with Juno

  • Company contributions towards your pension

  • 25 days of paid annual leave (33 days including bank holidays)

  • 10 days of paid sick leave (including mental health days) per year

  • Dog friendly office for when you’re in the office!

If you enjoy working as part of a technology company, value open source, and love solving hard problems - then we’d love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email; we’d be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.

We believe our differences as individuals is what makes us great. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we encourage everyone to be their most authentic self at Ably: we see inclusivity and openness as fundamental to creating long-term success as an organization. We encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race, religion, educational background or neurodiversity. Ably has an amazing opportunity ahead of us, and we want anyone to be able to contribute to that opportunity

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – a gender-neutral parental leave with equal leave for primary and secondary caregivers; a generous and competitive amount of leave; compassion for anyone facing loss, whether through miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or unfilled adoption. For more details visit https://ably.com/blog/ably-inclusive-parental-leave-policy
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
28 days annual leave + bank holidays
Work from home allowance
Juno wellbeing benefits
Pregnancy loss leave
Teambuilding days
Hofy home office set up
Share options
Health insurance, including Doctor@Hand
Employee Assistance Programme
Ongoing professional development (training, events, conferences)
Regular company away days and social events

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Ably provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Ably is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Ably

Company employees

134

Gender diversity (male:female)

16:24:3 (Female:Male:Other)

Office locations

London, UK & Boston, Massachusetts

Funding levels

$70m

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

Saas & Dev Software

Saas & Dev Software

Industry awards 2022