Chief of Staff to the Head of Sales
Assured
midproduct-managementoperations Palo Alto, CA Today via LinkedIn
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Sales OperationsSales StrategyForecastingQBRsSales EnablementSales AnalyticsCross-functional CoordinationPipeline ManagementDashboardsGTM
About the role
Role Overview
Chief of Staff to the Head of Sales at Assured, acting as a force multiplier for sales leadership across go-to-market execution. This role sits at the intersection of sales strategy and day-to-day operations, supporting the sales leader in shaping decisions, operating rhythms, deals, and accountability.
Responsibilities
- Serve as right-hand to the Head of Sales
- Act as a trusted thought partner/proxy
- Manage the strategic agenda, prepare for internal/customer meetings, and ensure priorities translate into action
- Own sales operating cadence
- Run pipeline reviews, forecast calls, QBRs, staff meetings, and sales off-sites
- Ensure meetings are well-prepared, decision-oriented, and followed through
- Drive pipeline visibility & forecasting
- Build/maintain reporting, dashboards, and analysis for pipeline health and forecast accuracy
- Own sales enablement
- Create decks, one-pagers, and narratives used in key customer meetings so reps have what they need to win
- Lead cross-functional coordination
- Align with Marketing, Customer Engineering, Product, and Finance on handoffs, launches, and shared GTM priorities
- Structure complex problems
- Use analytical frameworks for segmentation, territory strategy, pricing inputs, and win/loss analysis
- Support hiring and onboarding
- Partner on recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding across the sales organization
Requirements
- Thrives in ambiguity and can bring structure to chaos
- Strong execution and follow-through; able to shift between strategic and tactical work
Nice to Haves
- Experience working within or alongside a Forward Deployed Team (FDT) / forward-deployed discovery-to-production GTM motion (supporting rather than owning it)
About Assured
Assured is a technology company modernizing the insurance industry, with a focus on improving claims processing. It provides software solutions to large insurers, including self-service claim filing and backend fraud detection, and supports data- and ML-driven decision-making at scale.
Scraped 7/31/2026