Senior Director of Business Operations
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About Backstory Backstory (formerly People.ai) is the leading AI answers platform for sales teams. With more than a decade of training AI models on billions of sales interactions,
Backstory (formerly People.ai) is the leading AI answers platform for sales teams. With more than a decade of training AI models on billions of sales interactions, Backstory enables modern sales teams to ask questions and get the right answer in the moment directly within their existing AI workflows. Sales leaders from companies like OpenAI, IBM, Red Hat, Verizon, Palo Alto Networks, Iron Mountain, TransUnion, Randstad and others rely on Backstory to get trusted answers wrapped in real business context helping them orchestrate deals more effectively and drive revenue.
By connecting every signal to the right accounts and opportunities, Backstory shows teams exactly what is happening and what to do next. Customers across industries including enterprise, cybersecurity, data and analytics, and defense use Backstory to drive trillions in pipeline and revenue.
Recognized by Gartner and Forrester, the Inc. 5000, Y Combinator Top Companies, and the Forbes AI 50, Backstory is based in San Francisco and backed by ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures and Mubadala Capital.
We are hiring a Sr. Director of GTM Operations to build the operating system behind Backstory’s growth. You will own the metrics, systems, cadences, and commercial operations that let a small, AI-leveraged team run what once took a much larger ops function. The role reports to the SVP of Customer Value.
This role brings GTM operations together in one place. Comp design, territory and quota planning, pricing approvals, lead routing, and CRM administration consolidate here instead of sitting in separate functions. Sales, CS, and Partnerships should run on one integrated operating system.
You will present quarterly results and forward guidance to the Executive Leadership Team, and be the authority on how confident leadership should be in the numbers. You will also run our GTM on Backstory itself, turning our own operating model into a proof point for customers.
Instrument the full customer journey, from pre-funnel and partner activity through credit consumption and expansion. At our scale, this is a weeks-not-months deliverable.
Define the GTM data model, funnel stages, and metric definitions so numbers reconcile across Sales, CS, Partnerships, and Finance.
Connect product usage and billing data to the revenue stack so every customer is represented completely and consistently.
Govern CRM fields and data quality through automation and clear standards, not manual cleanup.
Design and run a forecasting rhythm built for a consumption-based, land-and-expand model: channel and marketing activity into pipeline, new-logo velocity, consumption trajectories, and expansion revenue.
Present completed-quarter results and forward guidance to the ELT at each quarter-end.
Give ELT members the analysis, forecasts, and materials they need to run their functions and report upward.
Run forecast reviews, pipeline inspections, and business reviews as forums for decisions, not status updates.
Use the data to pressure-test plans and flag risk early, even when the conclusion is unwelcome.
Build AI-driven reporting and analysis across solution presentation, adoption, credit consumption, and customer outcomes, with Backstory as the primary source of truth.
Deliver automated briefings, pipeline intelligence, and self-serve analytics to the whole GTM organization, not just leadership.
Make build, buy, or connect decisions for the GTM data and tooling that power instrumentation and the intelligence layer.
Re-anchor our early warning system around solution adoption: credit consumption, feature activation, workflow integration depth, CS engagement, and conversation signals.
Turn those signals into a review cadence and save and expand plays triggered by what customers are actually doing.
Feed adoption-based churn and expansion signals into the forecast, so save and expand plays show up in projected revenue.
Comp plan design for Sales, CS, and Partnerships, in partnership with Finance and People.
Territory, quota, and capacity planning, including clear rules of engagement and handoffs across direct, CS, and partner teams.
CPQ and pricing approvals, from quote to close.
Lead routing across marketing, sales, CS, and partners, with defined service levels.
Day-to-day CRM administration and the health of revenue-critical systems.
Run Backstory's GTM on Backstory, learning from our strongest adopters and trying uses customers that have not yet tried.
Document the results so they can be referenced in customer and prospect conversations.
Engage with customers and the market as a practitioner of the platform.
Nice to Have
~1 min readChief of Staff or CEO-adjacent experience: translating strategic intent into operating plans, preparing board materials, and managing cross-functional work without formal authority.
Channel and partnership operations: tracking, attribution, and handoffs between partner-sourced and direct pipeline.
Usage- or consumption-based pricing: structuring and governing credit-based deals.
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $225,000–$270,000 a year
- 307% above the $60,840 median for Operations Specialist jobs on Jobera (945 salaries).
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Listing Details
- Posted
- October 22, 2026
- First seen
- October 22, 2026
- Last seen
- October 22, 2026
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- Trust Level
- 80%
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- October 22, 2026
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People. ai accelerates enterprise growth through the power of AI.
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