Sales Strategy & Operations Associate, Verkada
EMEA
Video security management systems
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Video security management systems
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To protect people and property in a privacy-sensitive way.
Role
Who you are
- High-impact self-starter: you take initiative to move projects forward and can operate well with little guidance. You’re excited by the possibility of leading cross-functional workstreams and generating buy-in among senior leadership
- Raw smarts: we are looking for people who can look at complex problems and solve them start to finish
- Strong analytical skills: you nerd out about data, can quickly structure analyses to answer key business questions to drive decision-making, and will also have perspectives on building the right data architecture. Excel skills are a must; SQL / Tableau / Looker experience a plus
- Process and operational thinking: you can tackle a problem independently and quickly iterate to a solution, and then also document it in a way that's easy to understand for all audiences. Previous Salesforce experience is a plus
- Communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to be able to connect with sales reps and hardware engineers alike to figure out how we build the right processes and workflows to drive efficiency while also giving us the data to measure how we're doing. Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must
- Flexibility and hustle: you manage change and ambiguity well, and have no problems juggling multiple priorities while executing in a fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable pivoting quickly and often
- 2+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, banking, private equity, corporate strategy, or a startup
- Bachelors from a top school preferred
- Previous Sales, Sales Operations, or Strategy experience is a plus
What the job involves
- As a member of our EMEA Sales Strategy and Operations team, you will have an integral role in helping to build out EMEA by driving the insights, operations, and strategy that enables Sales to run better, faster, and smarter
- Sales Strategy and Operations is an excellent platform to learn how a business really runs and how to grow a business from 50 to 5000 individuals
- Prior candidates that our leadership team has worked with have gone on to be VPs and COOs of companies
- You will be joining the Sales Strategy and Operations team as a generalist, gaining exposure to a wide variety of challenges, processes, and data that makes the engine of this Sales organization hum
- Strategy & planning: pulling ongoing and ad hoc reporting for weekly / quarterly business reviews, and providing insights to inform business decisions
- Systems and operations: identifying and implementing improvements in current workflows and processes that can help improve efficiency and visibility - this might be inSalesforce.com or other tools
- Sales Enablement: building programming and content to help new hires get up to speed as quickly as possible, as well as tracking the right effectiveness metrics to see what makes someone a top (or bottom) performer and how we scale those learnings
- Since we're still in scrappy startup mode, there's a lot of rolling up your sleeves and getting into the weeds to drive direct impact on a daily basis. We knock out today's problems while also balancing our need to build for the long-term
- You’ll be working in Salesforce and Google Sheets / Excel on a daily basis, while also talking frequently with our stakeholders in sales, marketing, ops, product, finance, and more to help troubleshoot systems issues, review insights from our analyses, and build future-state processes and systems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Before Verkada stepped onto the scene, the evolution of video security was happening primarily in the consumer space. Home-security technology like video doorbells was becoming mainstream, but, ironically, enterprise security was lagging behind. Many large-scale companies were using outdated tech, creating problems for their security operations.
Verkada recognised that commercial security was outdated and backward, and began a mission to get commercial security up to date. The company provides clients with computer-vision cameras, using machine learning to identify security issues. Enterprise security is by no means a new market, but Verkada's success has come from its ability to recognise what large companies need and to provide up-to-date solutions. Its products have seen considerable uptake and major funding saw Verkada secure a multi-billion post-money valuation.
The company has recently introduced new ways to foster connections across teams. This has been done through their new 333 Program. The program aims to help connect teams as well as support local businesses. The company has also recently closed a further Series D funding round to help them continue driving towards their goal "to be the essential physical security software layer for every building".
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Career progression
" I can't say enough about the incredible career growth I've experienced at Verkada. Being promoted three times in three years is a true testament to..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Sep 2022
$205m
SERIES D
Total funding: $443.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO - Take the time you need to recharge now to do great work, long-term.
- Commuter Benefits - Includes monthly transit passes, parking costs and work travel expenses.
- £10 per day food allowance when you're working in the office. Breakfast and lunch are catered twice per week.
- Health Coverage - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents. Employee premiums are covered at 100%.
- Wellness Benefits - Receive fitness pass reimbursements and extended mental health coverage.
- Fun Celebrations - Happy hours, quarterly outings, and cross-functional team lunches.
- Fertility benefits - Verkada’s fertility stipend offers $10,000, grossed–up, towards fertility related treatments such as egg–freezing and IVF.
- $1,500/year professional development stipend.
- Pension plan.
Company values
- Pave The Way - We’re reimagining the enterprise security industry by building technology that extends beyond improving physical safety--we enable teams to optimize their operations and create productive work spaces.
- Solve Big Challenges - Big problems represent even bigger opportunities. Not only does our software unlock the capabilities of computer vision and machine learning, we’re able to leverage that power to improve safety at scale.
- Take Strategic Risks - We believe in thinking outside of the box, taking risks and turning obstacles into success. This attitude is baked into the organization, which encourages the team to be innovative, happy and successful.
- Think For Yourself - We believe we can do things better by questioning assumptions and beliefs. Rather than letting best practices define what we do, we work hard to create new systems and knowledge from scratch.
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
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Leadership
Filip Kaliszan
(CEO & Co-founder)A Computer Science graduate from Stanford, Filip also Founded CourseRank in 2007. Since then, he has also been Director of Product Management at Chegg and VP Product Management at Guidebook
James Ren
(Software Architect & Co-founder)After graduating from Stanford University, James also achieved a Doctorate in Law from Harvard Law School. Since then, James has had a successful career in Software Engineering, working at CourseRank, Google and Chegg
Benjamin Bercovitz
(Co-founder)Co-founded CourseRanc with Filip in 2009 and also co-founded SeaUrchin.IO in 2016
Hans Robertson
(Executive Chairman & Co-founder)He was previoudly Co-founder, VP of Product, and COO at Cisco Meraki. He moved on to co-found Verkada and is also involved in various investments.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Verkada
Dervilla Lannon (VP of People)
- At Verkada, we strongly believe that when people feel they belong, they’re more innovative, successful and happy. Feeling a sense of belonging enhances your experience, helps to create stronger relationships with customers and ultimately empowers you to build better teams, products and futures. To that end, we’re committed to fostering an equitable and inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. A big part of that effort is support for members and allies of our internal communities like Women, Pride, Multicultural and Parents at Verkada.
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