VP of Revenue Operations (RevOps)

Digital Science

16h • Remote

About The Position

The VP of Revenue Operations is responsible for building and leading the unified commercial operating engine of Digital Science. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Operations and serving as the primary operational partner to the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Segment leaders, and commercial leadership, this role drives revenue velocity through three core mandates: Business Process Ownership: optimising the customer lead-to-renewal lifecycle. Data Ownership and Integrity: ensuring indisputable pipeline data quality, pricebook integrity, and accurate sales forecasting. Technical & Systems Ownership: managing, integrating, and automating the commercial technology stack. Due to business need, candidates must reside in the UK, preferably in or close to London.

Requirements

• Significant, demonstrable experience leading Revenue Operations or equivalent business operations at scale, including CRM/Salesforce ownership, sales pipeline and GTM processes.
• Proven track record in a VP Operations-type role, ideally within technology, SaaS or a related B2B environment.
• Experience identifying use cases for driving automation to eliminate manual administrative burdens, streamlining lead-to-renewal processes, and reducing data-related friction across sales, marketing, and customer success.
• Demonstrated ability to drive internal adoption of AI capabilities, translating emerging technologies into practical operational efficiencies and measurable productivity gains for commercial teams.
• Experience of business transformation and building new functions or operating models.
• Understanding of business functions such as Finance, Legal, HR and Group IT, and how Operations interfaces with them.
• Understanding of the research ecosystem and Digital Science’s products.
• Outstanding organisational and leadership abilities, with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple workstreams.
• Strong working knowledge of data analysis and performance/operational metrics.
• Demonstrable competency in strategic planning and business development.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and public speaking skills, with the ability to lead and influence global, remotely based teams.
• Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving, and comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable presenting to executive and board-level audiences.
• Bachelor-level degree essential.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant Revenue Operations, CRM or business/strategic planning qualification desirable.
• Naturally curious about AI and comfortable exploring how it can improve the way we work — you don't need to be an AI expert, but an openness to experiment and adapt is important to us.

Responsibilities

• Own, standardise and optimise commercial business processes across the full customer lifecycle: from lead capture to order fulfillment, renewal management, and churn prevention.
• Partner directly with the CRO, and Segment leaders to translate overarching commercial strategies into actionable operational workflows and enablement playbooks.
• Partner closely with the VP of Business Operations regarding the operational execution of Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies, new product releases, and cross-functional system launches.
• Ensure RevOps project dependencies, technical readiness, commercial enablement workflows, and change management plans are seamlessly integrated into wider company project roadmaps.
• Oversee day-to-day operational support for Sales, Marketing, and Customer teams, including Doc Del - fulfillment, RFP Process Improvements, Customer Operations Process Improvements, Renewal Process Improvements, Legal Contract Reviews and Reseller Reporting.
• Continuously identify and eliminate operational friction in customer-facing processes, making it as seamless as possible for clients to buy from and renew with Digital Science.
• Serve as the commercial data owner, enforcing data entry standards, required fields, and pipeline hygiene in alignment with policies established by the VP of Data Governance & BI.
• Institutionalise data quality standards to ensure accurate sales forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and opportunity stage progression tracking.
• Maintain the operational integrity of product pricebooks, discount matrix governance, multi-currency tables, and Product Line structures in collaboration with Product, Finance, Segments and Data Governance.
• Support the monitoring and reporting of core commercial KPIs (e.g., CAC, NRR, win rates, sales cycle length), aligning metrics with the company-wide KPI framework owned by Data Governance & BI and Finance.
• Act as the functional owner for commercial technology (including Salesforce, Pardot, Gong, Front, Qualtrics, LeanData/Leadspace).
• Provide executive oversight and management of team members and technical staff responsible for platform architecture, technical development, custom objects, user provisioning, and API integrations (e.g., NetSuite-to-Salesforce connectors), ensuring clean data pipelines into the central data warehouse.
• Champion the adoption of AI and workflow automation across commercial operations to eliminate manual administrative work, reduce data entry burden, and scale capacity.
• Optimise the user experience within commercial software, ensuring tools are intuitive, properly adopted, and configured to minimise rep administrative time.
• Report to the SVP Operations and partner closely with the VP of Business Operations and VP of Data Governance & BI to align commercial systems, project roadmaps, and enterprise data hygiene.
• Collaborate with the VP of Data Governance & BI to feed clean commercial data into the central BigQuery data warehouse and enforce compliance across commercial teams.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams across SalesOps, MarketingOps, CustomerOps, and CRM/Systems Development.
• Foster a data-driven, customer-centric culture that routinely audits, iterates on, and elevates operational capabilities and system performance.

Benefits

• We invest in, nurture and support innovative businesses and technologies that make all parts of the research process more open, efficient and effective.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive