About Us
We're looking for a skilled and experienced Professional Services Operations Manager to join our Revenue Excellence team. The Professional Services Operations Manager will partner closely with Professional Services leadership to streamline processes, manage tools, operationalize the business strategy, guide data-driven decisions, and optimize for growth.
What You'll Do
- Oversee and optimize the tools and systems used by the Professional Services team, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
- Develop and standardize Professional Services processes to ensure consistency and scalability.
- Track and monitor key professional services metrics (utilization, bookings, attach rates, revenue, etc.). Develop analytical insights and drive recommendations for improvements.
- Own bookings and revenue forecasting process, optimize on improvements that lead to higher levels of forecasting accuracy.
- Create and maintain documentation, collaborate cross-functionally on improvements.
- Lead compensation process; designing/maintaining compensation plans, working with Finance on design and execution.
- Establish success metrics and definitions across the Professional Services team, and the associated reporting and dashboards needed by team members.
- Be a trusted partner to the Professional Services Leadership by defining, tracking, and implementing goals, programs and strategies that scale.
- Continually provide suggestions to business processes to keep up with the changes in the organization.
- Subject matter expert for PS team on all processes related to services: utilization, time entry, project management processes, and customer billing.
- Partner with Revenue, Salesforce Operations team and internal stakeholders to review and launch updates to the Professional Services portfolio of offerings to support the business's long-term goals.
- Provide guidance and oversight to PSOPs analysts.
What You Bring
- 4+ years in a Professional Services Operations role at a technology company, with experience designing workflows and the systems knowledge to implement them.
- Strong understanding of paid services/implementation lifecycle.
- Salesforce familiarity is a must.
- Strong proficiency and experience with Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools (ex. Certinia).
- Expert analytical and reporting skills to find trends and insights using data.
- Excellent Organizational skills with extensive project management skills including meeting deadlines and coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
- Have program management skills and are comfortable multitasking and prioritizing in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete, manageable components and think through optimal solutions.
- Strong work ethic, desire to learn, and a drive to excel.
- Collaborative mindset, across peers, business partners, and leadership.
- Clear, concise and effective communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to communicate the right level of information to executives and cross-functional teams at the right cadence.
- Proactive self-starter, identifying opportunity areas for improvement and executing on initiatives to drive impact to the business.
What makes ThoughtSpot a great place to work
ThoughtSpot is the experience layer of the modern data stack, leading the industry with our AI-powered analytics and natural language search. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectivesthis balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Selfless Excellence and our drive for continuous improvement (2% done), ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you're excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that's right for you.
ThoughtSpot for All
Building a diverse and inclusive team isn't just the right thing to do for our people, it's the right thing to do for our business. We know we can't solve complex data problems with a single perspective. It takes many voices, experiences, and areas of expertise to deliver the innovative solutions our customers need. At ThoughtSpot, we continually celebrate the diverse communities that individuals cultivate to empower every Spotter to bring their whole authentic self to work. We're committed to being real and continuously learning when it comes to equality, equity, and creating space for underrepresented groups to thrive. Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.
