Vice President, Sales Operations

CivicScience

CivicScience

Sales & Business Development, Operations
Remote
Posted on May 9, 2025
Every day, CivicScience gathers opinions from millions of consumers on thousands of topics that provide high-velocity insights to leading brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Bank of America, McDonald's, and T-Mobile. If there's a question critical to the marketing strategy of the Global 2000, CivicScience has the data.

Overview

The Vice President, Sales Operations supports multiple business functions within the CivicScience Intelligence group to ensure efficient use of resources, effective stakeholder involvement, and overall achievement of desired business outcomes. The VP, SO works closely with senior leadership on sales, marketing, operations, training, customer success, finance, legal, and communications within various lines of business and across the entire organization. This person is the backbone of the Intelligence business, having responsibility for all aspects of its operations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own CRM: Oversee and manage the CRM system, ensuring it aligns with business goals and optimizes sales and customer relationship management.
  • Revenue Tracking/Reporting: Track and report on revenue performance, providing regular updates and insights to CCO, Board and colleagues.
  • Forecasting: Lead revenue forecasting efforts, providing accurate predictions to inform business planning.
  • Sales and Account Management Process Optimization: Enhance and streamline sales and account management processes for increased productivity and efficiency.
  • Lead-Gen Implementation: Assist in developing and executing lead generation strategies to support business growth.
  • Process Optimization/Strategy Execution: Identify opportunities for process improvements and execute strategies to optimize operations.
  • Manage Cross-Functional Alignment & Communication: Ensure smooth communication and alignment between cross-functional teams including but not limited to Intelligence and Advertising personnel.
  • Work with Legal & Finance to Facilitate Contract Execution & Financial Tracking: Collaborate with Legal and Finance teams to support contract execution and financial tracking including board reporting.
  • Admin Functions: Oversee administrative tasks related to day-to-day operations and business functions.
  • Reporting: Generate and distribute reports on key performance metrics and operational activities.
  • Day-to-Day Operations: Handle the day-to-day operations of the business, ensuring smooth and efficient processes.
  • Operational Policies & Decisions: Support decision-making and the creation of operational policies to align with business objectives.
  • Sales Training Assistance: Assist in the development and delivery of sales training programs to enhance team performance.
  • Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure compliance with relevant laws and manage business risks effectively working with designated stakeholders.
  • Coordination of Pricing Components: Coordinate the pricing strategy and ensure consistency across pricing components.
Qualifications & Experience
  • 10+ years of client-facing, project management, and administrative leadership experience within operations, marketing, business development, finance, legal, and/or sales disciplines
  • Experience with AI tools
  • Expertise in Excel and other Microsoft tools
  • Experience with HubSpot CRM (preferred)
  • Experience building internal and external presentations
  • Highly detail-oriented
  • Willingness/aptitude to learn new tools
  • Great communicator
  • Bachelor's degree in a business-based discipline (preferred)
  • PMP or other project management certification (preferred)
  • Aptitude for marketing, consumer research, and data analysis
  • Successful track record of collaborating and building relationships with diverse stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detail-orientation, and a high level of personal motivation to succeed
Benefits & Expectations
Join a nimble, mission-driven team that values creativity, hustle, and making an impact. Benefits include:
  • Company paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your legal dependents
  • Company paid life insurance plus short- & long-term disability coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(k)
  • Travel and educational opportunities
This is a remote (work from home) role with flexibility, autonomy, and a preference for candidates in the Eastern Time Zone.
Working at CivicScience
CivicScience has a vibrant, high-energy work culture with ambitious, innovative, and forward-thinking team members. Our three business units - Media Partnerships, CivicScience Intelligence, and Advertising Solutions - work together to fuel CivicScience's goals and objectives.
We've been recognized for our work in the Inc. 5000, Pittsburgh Top Workplaces 2022, Pittsburgh Business Times Fast 50, GRIT Top 50 Innovative Supplier, Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 (winner), and Mental Health America’s Bell Seal program (Gold recipient, 2024 & 2025).

More about CivicScience
CivicScience is a consumer analytics and advertising platform. Our proprietary, always on, data collection engine captures over 1M survey responses daily, creating the most dynamic, real-time understanding of consumer wants, needs, and intentions in a constantly changing world. Powered by our premium media partnerships, our attitudinal database helps brands and media companies retain and grow existing customers while reaching and acquiring new ones.

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