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Revenue & Sales Operations

This role owns the operational heartbeat of sales organizations in AI companies, managing forecasting, pipeline hygiene, territory strategy, and sales process architecture across pre-sales functions like Sales Development and Sales Engineering. Unlike pure analytics or enablement roles, Revenue & Sales Operations leaders drive execution rigor through systems and methodology—they design the processes sellers actually follow, diagnose why pipelines stall, and build the metrics that predict revenue before quarter-end. These operators typically sit within larger GTM organizations, partnering closely with Sales leadership, Finance, and RevOps teams to translate growth targets into repeatable sales motions that scale as the company grows and AI capabilities evolve.

$ titles --canonical
Revenue Operations ManagerSales Operations ManagerRevOps AnalystDeal Desk AnalystDirector, Revenue OperationsGTM Operations Manager
Open Jobs101
Companies Hiring42
$ expectations --role revenue-&-sales-operations

Measured across 101 of 101 open postings.

36%
expect AI in the role's own work
8% state it as a requirement
13%
work directly with customers
19%
manage people
Mid
most common level
26% of open postings
BY LEVEL

This role is advertised at 4 levels, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.

LevelShareMedian yearsMedian pay
Mid26%(26)4$190k
Senior25%(25)5$188k
Manager24%(24)5$186k
Director17%(17)10—

A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 3 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.

WHAT THEY ASK FOR, VERBATIM

“Build AI-native tooling with internal teams to meaningfully scale our commercial processes”

Anthropic · Finance & Strategy, Deal Velocity

“Use AI as a default working method: build and maintain AI agents, automations, and workflows”

Harvey · GTM Systems Administrator, EMEA

“Experience using or implementing AI or automation tools (e.g., generative AI, workflow automation, CPQ automation) to improve deal desk efficienc”

MongoDB · Global Deal Strategy Sr. Analyst

“Fluency with AI tools to build, audit and document faster and a clear sense of where they stop being reliable”

Ramp · GTM Senior Business Systems Analyst – Channel Sales
$ barriers
39%
advertised as remote
of postings that state a work mode
12%
state a degree requirement
82%
still advertised a month later
4 points faster than the board

Requirements are a share of every open posting, so a role missing from this list is one where almost nobody asks. Work mode is different: many postings never say, so that figure counts only the ones that do. A posting stops being advertised when it is filled, cancelled or reorganised, so read the last figure as how long these stay on the market, not as time to hire.

$ flow --cohort revenue-&-sales-operations

Share of new postings expecting AI in the person's own work, by the week they appeared. Measured on the same 124 companies throughout, every one of them tracked since 18 May, so the line is not moved by us adding companies.

0%50%100%18 May: 20% of 5 postings25 May: 40% of 15 postings1 Jun: 38.5% of 13 postings8 Jun: 33.3% of 9 postings15 Jun: 77.8% of 9 postings22 Jun: 50% of 10 postings29 Jun: 0% of 6 postings6 Jul: 11.1% of 9 postings13 Jul: 46.2% of 13 postings20 Jul: 18.2% of 11 postings27 Jul: 33.3% of 9 postings3 Aug: 16.7% of 12 postings10 Aug: 41.7% of 12 postings17 Aug: 50% of 8 postings24 Aug: 38.5% of 13 postings31 Aug: 40% of 5 postings7 Sept: 20% of 5 postings14 Sept: 28.6% of 7 postings32%18 May14 Sept

Line is a four-week average; dots are individual weeks, 10 postings each on average. Weekly values span 78 points across this window, so read the line, not the gap between two dots. Across this window the share has been broadly flat.

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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

$ skills --core

GTM systems and CRM operations

72%

Forecasting and pipeline management

71%

Process design and improvement

47%

Deal structuring and negotiation

31%

Go-to-market strategy

26%

Operational metrics and analytics

22%

Business insight analysis

22%

Territory and quota planning

20%

SQL query development

16%

Marketing and GTM measurement and attribution

16%

Dashboarding and self-service analytics

15%

Revenue analytics and reporting

13%

Technical program management

11%

Systems integration and APIs

9%

Contract negotiation

9%
$ skills --emerging

AI workflow automation

19%

Consumption-based pricing and revenue models

11%
$ skills --soft

Cross-functional collaboration

41%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

$ tech --language
SQLmoderate
$ tech --platform
Salesforcehigh
HubSpotlow
Salesforce CPQlow
$ tech --tool
Claylow
Excellow
Gonglow
$ tech --concept
AI agentslow
CPQlow
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Open Jobs

101 open Revenue & Sales Operations jobs across 42 companies.

LangChain5d
EMEA Deal Strategy & Operations Lead
London·Sales & GTM
Legora1w
GTM Systems
New York City·Sales & GTM
Shield AI2w
Product Portfolio Analyst, X-BAT Family of Systems (FoS) (R6011)
San Diego, California·Sales & GTM
OpenAI2w
Senior Vendor Manager - SMB Sales
Dublin, Ireland·Sales & GTM
Legora2w
GTM Manager - Public Sector
Sydney·Sales & GTM
Crusoe2w
Finance Manager, Deal Governance
Denver, CO - US·Sales & GTM
Crusoe2w
Finance Manager, Deal Governance
Sunnyvale, CA - US·Sales & GTM
Nebius2w
Sr. Manager, Quote-to-Cash Transformation
United States·Sales & GTM
OpenAI2w
GTM Strategy & Operations, Policy
San Francisco·Sales & GTM
Nscale3w
Deal Desk Specialist
Ireland; London; UK·Sales & GTM
Legora3w
GTM Manager - Strategic Accounts
London·Sales & GTM
Anthropic3w
Finance & Strategy, Deal Velocity
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY·Sales & GTM
Apollo3w
Head of Partner Programs, Strategy and Operations
Remote, United States·Sales & GTM
Harvey3w
GTM Systems Administrator, EMEA
Dublin·Sales & GTM
Serval3w
Solutions Engineer Strategy & Operations Lead
San Francisco·Sales & GTM
Cursor3w
Deal Desk Analyst - Americas
San Francisco·Sales & GTM
MongoDB4w
Global Deal Strategy Sr. Analyst
Singapore·Sales & GTM
Nscale4w
Senior Manager, Deal Desk
Houston; New York; San Francisco; Seattle·Sales & GTM
Nscale4w
Director of GTM Strategy
Houston; New York; San Francisco; Seattle·Sales & GTM
Anthropic1mo
GTM Strategy & Operations - AMER Enterprise Tech
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY·Sales & GTM