Role details
- Perplexity is seeking a GTM Strategy & Operations Lead to join our Enterprise team.
- In this role, you will own the analytical and operational foundation of our sales organization, working directly with the VP of Sales and front-line sales leaders across all of our sales motions.
- This role is ideal for a hands-on operator who has helped a sales organization grow through its messiest stages and wants to build the planning, forecasting, and performance infrastructure for one of the fastest-growing enterprise businesses in AI.
- This is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP of Sales
Responsibilities
- Run the GTM operating cadence, including weekly pipeline reviews, forecast calls, and quarterly business reviews, owning both the underlying data and the narrative
- Build and own the sales forecasting process, giving leadership an accurate and defensible view of the quarter
- Design and maintain territory and segment models across all sales motions, and own the territory carve process
- Build sales capacity, coverage, and quota models that connect hiring plans to revenue targets
- Own performance reporting across the funnel: conversion, pipeline health, rep productivity, attainment, and ramp
- Conduct strategic analyses to identify where the business is working and where it is not, and turn findings into clear recommendations for sales leadership
- Drive high-priority cross-functional GTM initiatives, from annual planning through execution
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Strategic Finance to keep the go-to-market plan grounded in shared data
Qualifications
- Significant experience in GTM strategy, sales operations, revenue operations, or a similar function at a high-growth company, with direct exposure to what breaks as a sales team scales and a record of fixing it
- Strong SQL and hands-on analytical skills; you pull your own data and build your own models rather than waiting on analyst support
- Deep familiarity with Salesforce and experience working directly in a data warehouse such as Snowflake
- Proven ability to run an operating cadence with senior sales leaders and hold the organization to it
- Skilled at structuring ambiguous problems and communicating recommendations clearly to executives
- Comfortable moving between long-range planning and same-day operational questions
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Nice to Have
- Experience operating a usage-based or consumption business model, where forecasting and planning go beyond seat counts
- Background in management consulting, strategic finance, or corporate strategy prior to an operating role
- Experience at an AI or enterprise infrastructure company