Sales Operations Leader
Rachel was a Senior Director of Sales Operations at Snowflake; she joined as an individual contributor when Snowflake had 30 quota-carrying AEs and grew with the company to 400+ AEs to become a leader in the 30+ person sales ops organization. She previously held sales operations roles at Sumo Logic and Salesforce, and is now on the Advisory Board of Clarus Designs, a consulting firm focused on sales and marketing operational efficiency.
Capacity Planning
Rachel was a Senior Director of Sales Operations at Snowflake; she joined as an individual contributor when Snowflake had 30 quota-carrying AEs and grew with the company to 400+ AEs to become a leader in the 30+ person sales ops organization. She previously held sales operations roles at Sumo Logic and Salesforce, and is now on the Advisory Board of Clarus Designs, a consulting firm focused on sales and marketing operational efficiency. In this guide, she details the steps of a good sales capacity planning process and the major deliverables that come out of one.

Areas of Expertise

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Designing Sales Compensation Rachel owned or participated in sales compensation planning at both Snowflake and Sumo Logic, and believes strongly in the power of compensation design in aligning the salesforce with company priorities and driving the right behavior. The biggest mistake she sees is over-complicating comp, and she can advise on a few key pieces that eliminate a lot of headache.
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Building an Outbound Outreach Database One of Clarus Designs’ key services is lead generation and qualification. Rachel can advise on how to research profiles for target companies to build or clean up a high-quality lead database.
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Sales Process Design Rachel can advise on sales process structure, CRM customization, and revenue ops dashboarding and analysis.

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