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Paraform

Lead, Sales Strategy and Operations

Paraform is hiring a Lead, Sales Strategy and Operations in San Francisco, United States. It pays $190k-$230k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Paraform.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this sales role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
  • Pay on this posting starts 36% higher than the typical sales posting on Level.
  • The posting mentions Zapier AI, N8n and Decagon among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a lead role.
  • Paraform has 14 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead sales operations role responsible for deploying automation and AI-driven workflows to optimize GTM motions.

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Job Description

 

About The Role:

  • As a Sales Strategy & Operations Lead within the RevOps function, you will play a pivotal role in building the infrastructure and engine that makes our GTM teams efficiently grow our marketplace. You will work cross-functionally with business operations, finance, and sales and account management leadership to shape our GTM motions, revenue strategy, and workflows. You will implement tools and create processes that are built to scale. This role requires a team player that thrives in a fast-paced environment and is adaptable to change.

 

What You’ll Do

  • Act as a trusted thought partner and advisor to Sales and Revenue executives, specifically working directly with our VP of Supply, Head of Demand Sales, and/or Head of Engagement Management and their frontline managers.

  • Support leadership across annual and quarterly GTM planning, including territory design, capacity planning, quota setting, and forecasting.

  • Calculate attainment and variable compensation, and implement procedures with the Finance team to ensure commissions are paid accurately and on time.

  • Identify leverage points to deploy automation and AI-driven workflows that reduce manual sales and ops work.

  • Drive leadership decision-making through clear analytics and synthesized insights, pushing back on sales leadership when necessary.

 

Required

  • 4-6+ years of experience in RevOps, Strategic Finance, Business Operations, or comparable analytical roles

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

  • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders and employees across the organization

  • Strong program and project management skills

  • Strong Excel skills

  • SQL ability or the willingness to learn to independently query & manipulate data (Metabase)

  • Ability to design systems for executive-level decision-making

  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly-growing workplace

  • Based in San Francisco and excited about in-person company culture

Preferred

  • Experience with GTM tools like Apollo, Clay, Gong, Nooks, Unify, Zoominfo

  • Experience with automation tools like Zapier, n8n

  • Experience architecting Salesforce to serve as the control center for a fast-growing, sales-led GTM organization, building and maintaining Flows, Validation Rules, Custom Objects, Reports, and Dashboards.

  • Track record of supporting or partnering closely with senior sales leadership

  • Experience in a high-growth environment or startup

About Paraform

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace, modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We connect companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

We believe recruiting works best when human judgment is paired with AI that truly understands hiring. That's why we treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors, and build the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

Industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch hire through Paraform, and we grew revenue 8× last year. We're backed by Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. For more on where we're headed, read our company vision.

How we rate this

Lead, Sales Strategy and Operations at Paraform rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agentsSales OperationsGtm StrategyRevenue OperationsAutomationForecastingZapier AIN8n

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Pay

This job starts at
$190k
Typical sales job
$140k

This posting starts 36% above the typical sales job. See sales jobs

Questions you could be asked

  1. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  2. Tell me about a project where sales operations was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where gtm strategy was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where revenue operations was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, Sales Operations, Gtm Strategy, Revenue Operations, and Automation. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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  • Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.

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