It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am!
About the role:
As the Senior Manager, Sales Operations, you will work cross-functionally across the entire organization to define and drive strategic projects that support our revenue growth. You are someone who surrounds themselves with data and loves digging into processes and technology to understand where improvements can be made. You are a natural leader who is looking for an organization they can dive into head first, taking the initiative to make an impact wherever they can!
About us:
At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.
Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly AffiniPay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!
What you'll do:
- Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to Sales Leadership
- Collaborate across go-to-market teams to understand the challenges we face, identify the most impactful opportunities, and craft a roadmap to respond to them
- Manage, motivate, and develop a growing team of specialists
- Identify and solve complex and ambiguous issues for the sales team
- Scale systems, processes, and workflows to ensure all activities in the Sales organization are streamlined, efficient, and productive
- Champion complex cross-functional projects from inception to completion, including ensuring high quality of deliverables, measuring their results, and communicating the business impact
- Design, manage, and provide insights on key performance indicators across a range of segments, geographies, and go-to-market teams
- Support planning to create initiatives that further the company’s overall goals and KPI attainment.
- Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly to maximize sales performance, efficiency, and capacity
- Own, build, and evolve reports and dashboards in Salesforce to help individual contributors manage their daily workflows and to help leaders manage their team’s performance
- Partner with the Sales Enablement team to ensure the right tools, training, and communications are in place to enable strategic initiatives
- Partner with the Business Systems team to oversee Salesforce and our surrounding tech stack, including Gong, Outreach, Spiff, and more
- Build, develop, and nurture strong relationships with partners in Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, and Product to align priorities, remove blockers, and keep projects moving forward
About you:
- 5+ years of sales or revenue operations experience
- Strong analytical skills and understanding of sales metrics
- Experience scaling sales operations and demonstrated ability to define, refine and implement sales processes, procedures, and policies
- Ability to go deep on problems and communicate credibly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to be equally energized by your own work and contributing to the career growth of your team
- Expertise with Salesforce, including process and dashboard design
- Post-secondary education in computer science, business administration, or relevant discipline
- Excellent communication skills, including presentations, facilitation, and consultative questioning
- Meticulous organization, detail orientation, and task-driven nature
- Natural curiosity, proactive mindset, and the tenacity to challenge the status quo
- Enthusiasm to learn a new, complex domain and the humility to ask for help when needed
- Team player, willingness to step in for team members that need help, demonstrating integrity and positive communication, collaboration, and feedback
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience in high-velocity, B2B SaaS sales and/or revenue operations
- An understanding of revenue metrics across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
- Experience with Marketo, Outreach, Gong, Intercom, Highspot, and other integration
- Salesforce certification
- Prior supervisory experience
Additional Information
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000 to $170,000. The salary range for performing this role outside of the US / Austin / California may differ. 8am is committed to offering competitive, fair and commensurate compensation and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and education.
Why 8am:
At 8am, our culture is shaped by the people who bring it to life every day. Together, we build a company rooted in continuous learning, genuine community, holistic wellness, and meaningful engagement—values that empower us as individuals and unite us as a team. Our culture is grounded in our core values: Work Smart, Win Fast; Outshine Ordinary, and We Find a Way. These values drive how we serve our customers and work with each other in a collaborative, inspiring, and empowering environment, every day.
Here’s how we support our 8Team:
- Health Insurance Coverage: We offer our 8Team a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit your needs, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees.
- Financial perks: We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including annual bonuses, equity options and 401(k) or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match for all team members.
- Time for what matters: Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and a parental leave program for our new parents.
- Wellness: Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching.
- Learning and Development: Continuous learning through 8am.edu, leadership programs, professional development funds, and individually focused talent development.
- Giving back to the communities around us: Participate in our charitable matching gift program, paid time off for volunteer service, and company-sponsored volunteer events (both local and virtually).
- Engagement: Virtual and in-person team-building events, quarterly award recognition through our Rise & Shine Award of Excellence Program, and our peer-to-peer appreciation platform.
At 8am, we don’t just offer benefits - we create an environment where people can thrive, grow, and make a real impact every day.
Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:
At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach.
Security advisory:
Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology. As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices. We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process. All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person. All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.
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