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About The Position

Sonatype is seeking a Director of Field Strategy & Operations to partner with field leadership and scale the global field organization through an AI Ops and modern revenue approach. The role reports directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, is ideally based on the West Coast to support APJ overlap, and has a global remit. This is a builder role focused on developing a more focused, repeatable enterprise growth engine for Global 2000 and $5bn+ revenue organizations. The Director will help coordinate direct new-logo acquisition, customer expansion and cross-sell, and channel and partner routes to market. They will diagnose execution gaps, design mechanisms to improve performance, and establish the cadence, accountability, and cross-functional alignment needed to scale. The Director will work as a commercial partner to Revenue Operations, Enablement, and Sales Strategy, bringing field perspectives to identify execution priorities and translate commercial goals into coordinated action. They will work across Sales, Solutions Consulting, Field Marketing, Enablement, Sales Strategy, Sales Programs, and Revenue Operations, using commercial judgment, analytics, and AI-enabled revenue tools to improve pipeline, sales execution, and business outcomes. The position may become a consolidation point for additional field capabilities and teams as the organization evolves.

Requirements

  • Experience building or materially transforming a field operating model within a complex enterprise software business, with demonstrable commercial outcomes such as improved pipeline, conversion, forecast accuracy, sales productivity, expansion, or partner contribution.
  • Commercial credibility to work as a peer with senior sales leaders and challenge them constructively.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise sales operating rhythms, including forecasting, pipeline management, business reviews, territory execution, and performance management.
  • Experience personally leading forecast or equivalent commercial operating calls.
  • Experience translating ambiguous executive priorities into structured, cross-functional execution.
  • Strong business judgment and ability to prioritize competing demands.
  • Experience driving cross-functional initiatives without direct reporting authority.
  • Ability to combine strategic thinking with detailed operational execution.
  • Strong understanding of the relationships among Sales, Solutions Consulting, Marketing, Enablement, Programs, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations.
  • Experience designing or improving operating models as organizations grow.
  • Confidence to make decisions, challenge assumptions, and hold senior stakeholders accountable.
  • Strong analytical capability and ability to turn data into commercial decisions and action.
  • Experience leading teams and developing high-performing operational or enablement talent.
  • Strong expertise in AI Ops, Revenue Operations, and modern revenue intelligence platforms to improve field productivity, forecasting accuracy, and decision-making.
  • Operator-first approach: able to take ambiguous objectives, determine what needs to happen, bring people together, and create momentum.
  • Ability to balance detailed business understanding with strategic, enterprise-level perspective.
  • Builds influence through judgment and execution rather than process or hierarchy.
  • Willingness to challenge respectfully, make decisions when appropriate, and create accountability when progress stalls.
  • Enterprise mindset focused on the performance of the broader field organization.
  • Focus on owning outcomes rather than merely organizing meetings.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience in enterprise cybersecurity, application security, developer tools, DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise software.
  • Experience supporting a global enterprise sales organization.
  • Experience operating through significant go-to-market transformation or scale.
  • Experience integrating previously distributed field capabilities into a more unified operating model.
  • Leadership experience in Sales Enablement, Field Enablement, Sales Programs, or related functions.
  • Experience partnering with direct and channel or partner sales organizations.
  • Experience in businesses with complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
  • Experience implementing AI-driven sales or revenue operations tools and methodologies across enterprise field teams.

Responsibilities

  • Shape global field strategy with the CRO and senior commercial leaders, translating territory, account, pipeline, partner, and expansion plans into clear actions and measurable outcomes.
  • Lead field operating rhythms and strategic reviews, including forecast, pipeline, performance, and execution reviews; translate strategy into an operating agenda and ensure commitments result in action and commercial outcomes.
  • Translate executive priorities into structured programs with outcomes, owners, milestones, and accountability; use an AI Ops approach to remove operational drag, unblock initiatives, and maintain momentum across global field teams.
  • Connect Sales, Solutions Consulting, Field Marketing, Enablement, Revenue Operations, and Finance around revenue goals; resolve competing priorities and execution barriers and influence across functions.
  • Strengthen forecast and pipeline rigor by using commercial understanding and AI intelligence to improve forecast accuracy, identify deal risks, and assess territory and deal-stage health.
  • Turn operational data into revenue strategies and targeted field actions.
  • Design and refine a scalable field operating model, simplifying and standardizing processes and establishing repeatable practices that use AI technology to scale field impact.
  • Lead teams and develop high-performing operational or enablement talent.

Benefits

  • Parental leave policy
  • Paid volunteer time off
  • Diversity and inclusion working groups
  • Flexible working practices
  • Company Wellness Week, during which company operations shut down for a week

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