Business Strategy & Operations Manager

Motive
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Field sales or revenue operations professionals with AI automation experience will find this high-impact, cross-functional role in a remote U.S. setting.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 6+ years in enterprise SaaS sales operations and a track record in strategic account management.
    — “6+ years of Field Sales/Revenue Operations experience at a high-growth SaaS company, including direct support of an Enterprise or Strategic segment”
  • Individuals who leverage AI and automation to streamline sales processes and reduce manual workloads.
    — “Genuine AI proficiency and curiosity — you already use LLMs in your daily work and have built something real with agent, scripting, or workflow automation tooling”

Things to consider

  • The role requires managing high-stakes accounts with multi-year, multi-product relationships.
    — “This is our highest-stakes book of business, and the operating rigor behind it has to match the size of the prize”
  • Compensation varies significantly based on geographic location within the U.S.
    — “The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in forecasting, pipeline management, and territory design in your resume.
    — “Own the weekly, monthly, and quarterly business cadences for the segment — forecast calls, pipeline inspection, QBRs”
  • Emphasize your ability to direct analytical support from offshore or distributed teams.
    — “Experience scoping and reviewing analytical work delivered by offshore or distributed teams”
  • Demonstrate your expertise in Salesforce, Google Sheets, and Hex for reporting and analytics.
    — “Experience in building Salesforce reports and dashboards, knowledge in how SFDC applications integrate with each other”
  • Show initiative in owning projects and driving productivity improvements for sales teams.
    — “Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter — you will take the initiative to own projects and can operate well with little guidance”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful sales motion optimization
  • high sales productivity
  • efficient sales operations
Typical background
sales operationsbusiness strategyoperations management

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales StrategyOperations ManagementForecastingPipeline ManagementTerritory DesignAnalytical ToolsCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

AI And Automation ToolingData-driven Perspective

About the role

Original posting from Motive via Greenhouse

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role

Sales Strategy & Operations at Motive drives the strategy, execution, and scale of Motive's revenue growth. Our work is cross-functional and touches nearly every part of the business.

We are looking for a Sales Strategy & Operations Manager to support our Strategic segment — the largest and most complex fleets in our market, where a single account can represent millions in ARR and a multi-year, multi-product relationship. This is our highest-stakes book of business, and the operating rigor behind it has to match the size of the prize.

We are looking for someone who will bring innovation, experience, and a fresh perspective to our team. Your ability to think strategically, adapt quickly, and get things done will earn credibility with all levels of the organization. Our mandate is to make the sales motion run more effectively, efficiently, and ultimately drive higher productivity. This role will bring a data driven perspective to forecasting, pipeline generation and management, territory design, and other sales metrics. You will collaborate closely with Strategic Sales Leadership, the Enterprise Sales Operations team, and the broader Go-to-Market organization, and will direct analytical support from our Strategy & Operations team in Pakistan.

What You'll Do

Serve as the primary sales operations business partner to Strategic Sales Leadership and their Directors of Strategic Accounts

Own the weekly, monthly, and quarterly business cadences for the segment — forecast calls, pipeline inspection, QBRs — and escalate deviations from goals and expectations

Pinpoint the drivers of performance in a low-volume, high-value motion and lead initiatives to increase win rates, deal velocity, and multi-product attach

Own territory design and book-of-business optimization, moving from one-size-fits-all account counts to a variable model that reflects account potential, incumbent providers, and industry focus

Own key reporting and analytics for the Strategic team (Salesforce, Google Sheets, Hex on Snowflake) and build the analytical tools leaders need to understand their business

Build your own leverage — use AI and automation tooling (Glean agents, Google Apps Script, n8n) to eliminate manual reporting and workflow steps rather than absorbing them

Partner with cross-functional teams to scope and execute strategic projects that reduce workflow friction and inefficiencies for the sales organization

Be the connective tissue between Strategic Sales and the rest of the Enterprise business

Become a trusted advisor for sales leadership, offering an operational lens on how to tackle business problems at scale

What We Hope You Bring

6+ years of Field Sales/Revenue Operations experience at a high-growth SaaS company, including direct support of an Enterprise or Strategic segment

Comfort operating in a low-volume, high-ACV motion where deal-level judgment matters as much as aggregate trend analysis

Exceptional spreadsheet and data management skills to quickly structure analyses, answer key business questions, and drive decision making

Experience in building Salesforce reports and dashboards, knowledge in how SFDC applications integrate with each other, and ability to enable sales on SFDC best practices and related tools

Experience partnering with Sales Leadership on initiatives such as weekly forecasting, territory alignment, ROE, QBRs and other related projects

Experience scoping and reviewing analytical work delivered by offshore or distributed teams

Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter — you will take the initiative to own projects and can operate well with little guidance

Demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple concurrent projects in a rapidly changing, hyper-growth environment

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Excel and Google Sheets expertise is a must; SQL proficiency and hands-on experience in a notebook-based analytics tool such as Hex querying a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake is strongly preferred

Genuine AI proficiency and curiosity — you already use LLMs in your daily work and have built something real with agent, scripting, or workflow automation tooling (Glean, Google Apps Script, n8n, or equivalent). We are an AI-first operations team, and we value operators who build their own solutions

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. Motive uses three geographic zones to determine pay range. For this role, the compensation ranges are: San Francisco, California$178,000—$222,000 USDU.S. metropolitan areas: New York City Area and Seattle, WA$170,000—$212,000 USDOther locations in the United States$154,000—$193,000 USDCreating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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Source: Motive careers (Greenhouse)

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