SEMrush

Director, Sales Operations

SEMrush$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5 to 8 years in Sales Operations or related fields
  • Experience at a Director level or equivalent
  • Proven track record in scaling Sales Operations in B2B SaaS
  • Ability to operate in complex organizational environments
  • Strong senior leadership partnership experience

Responsibilities

  • Refine existing Sales operating model including strategy and coverage
  • Strengthen sales processes for greater consistency and predictability
  • Enhance operating cadence through regular sales reviews and forecasting
  • Drive KPI improvement related to sales performance
  • Elevate forecast methodologies and accountability within the Sales team

Benefits

  • Life insurance coverage
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account
  • Short-term and long-term disability benefits
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Opportunities for career advancement
  • Recognition and rewards for top performers at President's club events
  • Access to employee resource groups
Full Job Description
About the opportunity

The Sales team is at the forefront of empowering businesses to achieve online visibility and digital marketing success. Through our selling approach and world-class enablement programs, we equip our team with the tools, resources, and training. This is how we keep delivering meaningful results for our customers.

Joining the Sales team also means:

  • Fast forward and continuous career growth: the highest rate of promotions within the organization

  • A team spread across 40+ locations around the globe

  • Offline and online bootcamps as part of our onboarding process

  • President’s club—an opportunity to celebrate exceptional results and reward top performers in high-class vacation destination 

  • Quota attainment has been recognized as higher than market average, according to RepVue

  • Uncapped commissions

About your future tasks

About the Role

We’re looking for a Director of Sales Operations to help scale, refine, and elevate our Sales organization. This role reports directly to the VP of Revenue Operations and will serve as a key partner in strengthening how the Sales function operates as we continue to grow and prepare for deeper evolution within Adobe.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who understands what great looks like and knows how to evolve an existing foundation into a more mature, predictable, and high-performing operating model. You will build on what is already in place by sharpening processes, improving forecasting rigor, and introducing the structure needed to operate effectively at greater scale and complexity.

This is an opportunity to uplevel an existing Sales Operations function, drive consistency and accountability across the funnel, and ensure the organization is positioned to integrate seamlessly into a broader, more sophisticated operating environment.

What You'll Do

Build the Operational Foundation, Operating Cadence, and KPIs

  • Refine and evolve the existing Sales operating model, including territory design, segmentation, and coverage strategy to support continued growth

  • Strengthen sales processes to improve consistency, inspection, and predictability

  • Enhance the operating cadence across the Sales organization, including pipeline reviews, forecast calls, and quarterly business reviews

  • Continuously improve core KPIs (such as pipeline generation, conversion rates, deal velocity, and attainment) and ensure metrics are tightly connected to behaviors, accountability, and performance management

Drive Insight and Performance

  • Own and elevate forecast methodology, accuracy, and accountability across Sales leadership

  • Improve pipeline visibility and inspection to drive higher-quality forecasting and execution

  • Partner with Analytics teams to develop and enhance dashboards, reporting, and analytics to support faster, more confident decision-making

  • Translate data into clear, actionable insights that influence Sales and executive leadership

  • Identify opportunities to increase productivity, efficiency, and pipeline quality

Strategic Business Partnership

  • Act as a trusted advisor to Sales leadership, helping guide decision-making with data and structure

  • Lead and support planning cycles, including annual planning, quota setting, capacity modeling, and territory design

  • Serve as a key partner in shaping sales compensation strategy, leveraging data and performance insights to influence plan design, incentives, and alignment to company goals

  • Partner on strategic initiatives such as new market expansion, GTM evolution, and integration planning

  • Bring clarity and alignment to cross-functional initiatives that span Sales, Finance, and Customer Success

Systems and Tools Design

  • Optimize the existing Sales tech stack, including CRM and sales engagement tools, to support scale and consistency

  • Partner closely with IT and cross-functional teams to prepare systems and processes for integration with Adobe

  • Evaluate and implement enhancements that improve seller productivity and operational visibility

Cross-Functional Alignment & Teambuilding

  • Strengthen alignment with Customer Success, Product, and Finance across the full revenue lifecycle

  • Align on funnel definitions, handoffs, shared metrics, and revenue goals

  • Help connect strategy to execution across teams, ensuring consistency in how the business operates

  • Develop and mentor Sales Operations talent, raising the overall capability of the team

  • Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement

About you

Operator Mindset

  • Clear point of view on what high-performing, scaled Sales organizations look like

  • Experience evolving and maturing existing operating models, not just building from zero

  • Comfortable operating at both the strategic and execution level

  • Ability to bring structure, discipline, and clarity to complex, fast-moving environments

Analytical and Technical Strength

  • Deep experience with CRM systems such as Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics

  • Strong background in sales forecasting, pipeline management, and performance analytics

  • Familiarity with sales engagement and enablement tools

  • Experience with BI tools such as Tableau or similar

  • Ability to translate data into clear narratives that drive action and accountability

Business Partnership

  • Strong communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

  • Comfortable challenging assumptions and raising the bar on performance expectations

  • High level of ownership and accountability

Builder and Scaler Mentality

  • Proven ability to improve and scale existing systems, processes, and teams

  • Comfortable operating in environments that are evolving toward greater complexity and rigor

  • Balances speed with thoughtful, durable improvements that will stand up over time

Qualifications
  • 5 to 8 years of experience in Operations, Revenue Operations, or Sales Operations, with significant experience directly supporting Direct, Indirect, and Overlay Sales teams/models

  • Experience operating at a Director level or equivalent scope, with ownership over forecasting, planning, and cross-functional initiatives

  • Track record of scaling and maturing Sales Operations functions in a growing B2B SaaS or recurring revenue environment

  • Experience working in or preparing for complex organizational environments, such as acquisitions or integrations

  • Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leadership and influence decisions that impact company performance

About the perks


  • Strong product-market fit recognized by

  • High earning potential with clear quota attainment visibility

  • Life insurance

  • Low cost medical, dental, and vision plans

  • Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance 

  • Dependent Care Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Health Savings Account 

  • Short-term and long-term Disability

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Employee Resource Groups 

  • Paid parental leave

  • Relief Fund

  • Travel coverage 

About SEMrush

SEMrush is a software company that provides search engine optimization (SEO) and online marketing tools for businesses. The company's software platform is designed to help businesses improve their online visibility and increase their website traffic. SEMrush's tools include keyword research, site audit, backlink analysis, and competitor analysis. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Learn more about SEMrush
Size
1,000 employees
Market Cap
$1 billion
Industry
Founded
2008
NASDAQ

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