Manager, Sales Conversational Intelligence

Okta•San Francisco, CA

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager, Sales Conversational Intelligence is responsible for the design and optimization of the workflows that integrate conversational data into the global sales lifecycle. Sitting within the Field Process & Systems team, this role operationalizes the sales process by defining how conversational intelligence (CI) validates deal stages, triggers handoffs, and ensures alignment with our sales methodology. Beyond field support for Sales, Pre-Sales, and XDRs, this role is a critical partner to Operations and Leadership, leveraging conversational data to provide business insights, audit pipeline health, and drive data-backed decisions on how to manage and scale the business.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, or Field Process Design.
Proven ability to build and scale sales workflows that integrate seamlessly with technical infrastructure.
Ability to look beyond individual calls to see the "big picture" of how conversational trends impact the broader business strategy.
Expert-level ability to represent the needs of the Field and Ops to technical teams (BT), ensuring technology facilitates business management.
Strong understanding of sales methodologies and the ability to translate those frameworks into operational process steps.
High-level familiarity with the CI landscape (e.g., Gong) and Salesforce, focusing on how these tools drive both rep productivity and executive visibility.

Responsibilities

Ensure CI workflows are configured to reinforce our defined sales methodology, making the methodology a tangible, measurable part of the daily sales process.
Design the standard processes for Sales, Pre-Sales, and XDR teams to ensure CI insights are utilized at key milestones (e.g., discovery validation, technical scoping, etc.).
Establish procedural requirements for using CI to streamline transitions between teams, ensuring the "voice of the customer" remains the central thread from lead to renewal.
Partner with Analytics & Operations teams to turn conversational data into business intelligence (e.g., identifying why deals are stalling or why win rates vary by segment).
Develop the process for using CI as a "truth mechanism" to audit CRM accuracy, ensuring that forecasted deals show conversational evidence of progress.
Define and manage the "Trackers" and "Themes" that provide the broader Ops and business teams with real-time visibility into trends and gaps.
Identify high-performance interaction patterns and translate them into repeatable process standards to drive predictable revenue growth.
Serve as a key business stakeholder for Business Technology (BT); you own the strategic requirements and process mapping, while partnering closely with BT on the technical execution and system administration.
Regularly audit the effectiveness of the CI platform to ensure it continues to meet the evolving needs of both the Field and the Operations teams.