Business & Sales Operations Expert

Business & Sales Operations Domain Expert

Job Type: Full-Time, W-2
Location: Bay Area, California — Hybrid
Schedule: 40 hours/week
Compensation: $60–$100/hour (approximately $124,800–$208,000 annually , based on 40 hours/week)

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a senior Business & Sales Operations Domain Expert to work alongside AI research and program management teams developing and evaluating next-generation generative AI systems.

This role is designed for an experienced operator with genuine ownership of business, revenue, or sales operations—not a generalist or individual quota-carrying sales professional.

You will use your practical operating expertise to evaluate AI-generated business workflows, define what high-quality work looks like, create benchmark tasks, and translate real-world operational judgment into clear evaluation standards.

What You'll Do

• Review business and sales operations tasks and AI-generated outputs for accuracy, completeness, and practical usefulness.

• Identify flawed assumptions, missing steps, weak reasoning, inconsistent numbers, and outputs that would not withstand a real operating review.

• Write detailed instruction specifications and create high-quality gold-standard solutions for business operations problems.

• Develop realistic, challenging evaluation tasks and benchmark datasets.

• Help define domain-specific capabilities, workflows, and tools for AI systems.

• Work with researchers and specialists across adjacent domains to calibrate evaluation standards.

• Translate practical, experience-based operating judgment into clear and teachable criteria.

• Provide precise, structured written feedback to improve AI model performance.

Core Qualifications

• 4+ years of substantive ownership of a business, revenue, or sales operations function within a recognized organization.

• Demonstrated progression into a senior role such as Manager, Senior Manager, Director, VP, COO, or President , with meaningful ownership of a function, budget, or team.

• Deep expertise in at least one relevant area, such as:

  • Sales operations, territory, or quota design

  • Revenue operations and forecasting

  • CRM and go-to-market systems

  • Pricing and deal desk

  • Supply chain and inventory planning

  • Business analytics

  • Process improvement

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred .

• Hands-on professional experience using large language models and generative AI tools .

• Strong ability to distinguish genuinely correct, well-reasoned outputs from plausible but incorrect answers.

• Excellent written communication and ability to provide precise, structured feedback.

• Ability to commit to 40 hours per week for an initial 6-month engagement .

Location & Work Arrangement

This is a hybrid position based in the Bay Area, California .

You must currently live in the Bay Area and be able to work on-site with the client team multiple days each week when required.

Candidates outside the Bay Area must be willing to relocate at their own expense before the engagement begins . Relocation assistance is not provided.

Employment Details

• Full-time W-2 employment .

• Employer-sponsored payroll, benefits, and compliance administration.

• Client-issued accounts and equipment may be provided.

• Work directly alongside client research and program teams using enterprise tools and workflows.

• Initial engagement expected to last 6 months , subject to business needs and performance.

Why Join

• Work directly with teams developing frontier generative AI systems .

• Apply your real-world operations expertise to high-impact AI development.

• Help define how AI models reason about business and sales operations.

• Shape evaluation standards, benchmarks, and workflows that influence future AI capabilities.

• Collaborate with experienced researchers and specialists across multiple business domains.

Ideal Candidate: A senior business or sales operations leader who has personally owned meaningful operating functions and can combine deep domain expertise with strong AI fluency, analytical judgment, and precise written communication.