Senior Manager, Deal Pursuit Operations

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Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) is helping organizations around the globe advance securely. Our technology, services, and community-focused research simplify complexity for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks. With more than 9000 customers across 120+ countries, Rapid7 is a recognized leader in cybersecurity that has proudly earned numerous industry accolades and strong recognition for our technology and culture. Learn more at www.rapid7.com.

The Opportunity

Rapid7 is seeking an exceptional leader for the Sr. Manager, Deal Pursuit role to lead our Deal Architecture and Proposals teams. In this role you’ll be part of the Business Operations leadership team reporting to the Sr. Director of Growth Operations, and will be responsible for leading, designing and overseeing the evolution of our deal motion and timely delivery of high-quality responses to global business opportunities.

You will be responsible for a team focused on reducing friction, driving clarity and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our go-to-customer commercial process - ranging from crafting, and enabling new programs to ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality responses to global business opportunities for our customers. This key role will have a direct impact on the success of our customers as well as our internal teams supporting customer outcomes. 

If you’re a thought leader and great communicator who sees opportunity where others see challenges, focuses on the big picture without overlooking the details and fosters a positive team environment, then this role at Rapid7 is for you. This position offers the opportunity to work in an exciting and dynamic environment, combining technical knowledge and analytical depth, with creativity to produce professional materials for internal and external customers. 

As the Senior Manager you’ll work cross functionally across the entire organization from Sales, Customer Success, Services Consulting, and Project Management to Legal, Marketing, Finance and Information Security, among others. If you are passionate about leading a great team, want to be part of a fast paced and rapidly growing company, have an interest in cybersecurity, and are excited about making positive impacts on our customers, this may be the opportunity for you. 

Essential Responsibilities 

  • Provide insight into effectiveness of pricing strategy, sales programs, negotiations, commercial operations, and deal financials.

  • Design, evolve and implement a deal pursuit process that balances efficiency, process, and creativity to reduce friction, increase clarity and to help create advantageous outcomes

  • Lead evolution of deal pursuit strategy including competitive analysis, developing win themes and technical approaches

  • Manage the planning, development and execution of proposals, SAOs, SOWs, vendor risk assessments and security questionnaires

  • Lead and develop a high performing team of professionals, providing effective mentoring and coaching as well as a fostering positive environment of collaboration and professional growth 

  • Develop and maintain a broad understanding of Rapid7’s products and services to ensure we continue to deliver high quality proposals that help fuel our growth. Ensure our deal pursuit process and content is effective to strategically position Rapid7 products and services throughout the sales lifecycle

  • Design and curate high quality technical content as well as implement formalized and effective quality assurance processes for customer facing deliverables to ensure consistency and a great customer experience

  • Lead and develop a global team to impact deal velocity and negotiating capabilities to help accelerate Go-to-customer growth while focusing on our customers outcomes and experience. .

  • Define and measure key metrics to determine effectiveness and impact of Deal Pursuit team and regularly present these metrics to support business decision-making and planning

  • Foster continued enhancement of programs, content and processes; proactively work across the organization to identify and lead opportunities for impact and efficiency and team development

  • Partner with Marketing to effectively develop and utilize highly impactful customer content throughout the customer/prospect journey with us. 

  • Work closely with Growth Development to build and maintain training materials to help enable a broad set of internal teams; from Sales, Sales Engineering, & Customer Success Management to Services Consultants and Customer Advisors. Support enablement of external partners and subcontractors

  • Support our Global Sales, Services, and Product teams on pricing related initiatives, new products, and strategic programs, advising on contract and system requirements.

  • Partner with Services Consulting Leadership to drive best practices centered on standardizing recommendations and vulnerabilities and the development of new offerings

  • Partner with Operations, Project Management and Technical Program Management to scale and automate by enhancing tools, workflows, process improvements and communication paths for customer escalations

Job Requirements

You're an excellent leader and will have significant experience in managing the proposal lifecycle and content delivery that drives customer satisfaction and engagement. The role requires a good mix of project management capabilities, plus top-notch verbal and written communication skills. We are looking for someone with passion, energy, intellect and drive who can bring fresh ideas, is accomplished in developing and aligning strategies with business priorities, and is adept at developing standards and best practices. 

  • Impact-driven individual who makes the complex simple; able to be hands-on as well as strategic

  • Excellent leader with a passion for developing and coaching teams, and driving a cooperative and accountable team environment

  • Demonstrated experience in successfully leading complex projects with high-level results

  • Proven experience recommending, implementing, and integrating processes, tools, and best practices

  • Skilled communicator that drives operational excellence; experience supporting sales and technical teams

  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to create impact; ability to support and meet dynamic and tight deadlines in a customer-oriented environment. 

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing across multiple geographically dispersed offices

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, English, Communications, or Engineering required

  • Minimum 7-10 years of experience in deal/desk, pricing, proposal and/or technical writing management preferably in Technology, Cyber-Security or SaaS organizations

  • Expertise with Google Suite and/or MS Office Suite as well as CRM tools such as SFDC, NS or Gainsight. Experience with content collaboration tools (Ombud) or data visualization tools (I.e Domo, PowerBi, etc) a plus

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Location

Rapid7 is conveniently located between the North End and West End of Boston, with plenty of restaurants and public transport close by.

An Insider's view of Rapid7

What does your typical day look like?

For the majority of the day it’s a mix of weekly check-ins with various teams, project updates, and the occasional brainstorm.

When I’m not in meetings I’ve got headphones in while planning, writing, or designing — at my desk or perched somewhere around the office.

Grace

Senior Brand Storyteller

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Ive been on many teams in my time at Rapid7 and they have certainly “grown” from a size perspective, but more importantly, they all evolved with the changing times and needs. Some of the teams I was on were critical for our sales grown in an emerging market and though they no longer exist by name, I can see the tangible impact we made.

Sarah

Manager, Commercial Sales

What are Rapid7 Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Once a year, Rapid7 offices across the globe close for the day so employees can volunteer.
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
President's club
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Our remote work program includes full-time remote for specific positions, Work remotely on occasion as needed.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Rapid7 is led by a diverse management team that represent the security community we serve. We believe that we all have a responsibility to continuously improve our DE&I efforts.
Mandated unconscious bias training
We believe in continuous learning, our in-house trainers conduct consistent diversity trainings. We advocate for diverse thinking and strive to cultivate a workforce that mirrors the best minds.
Diversity employee resource groups
We have so many amazing and organically created employee resource groups! These internal Rapid7 communities allow for an authentic experience where diverse employees and allies can come together.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
We've taken the Parity Pledge, we reinforce strategic recruitment, we are committed to diversity partnerships, and we understand the importance in training around unconscious bias.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Our employees receive unlimited hours per year of paid volunteer time.
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Employees receive unlimited hours per year of paid sick leave.
Bereavement leave benefits
Company-wide vacation
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Rapid7 has a fully stocked kitchen including unlimited snacks, coffee, tea and all of the flavored sparkling water you can handle.
Some meals provided
Employees get free lunch during quarterly in-office Town Halls and some team meetings.
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Meditation space
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Variable.
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications

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