Director, EMEA Sales Operations

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for a Director of EMEA Sales Operations to be the dedicated GTM Operations partner for our EMEA region. This role sits at the centre of EMEA's go-to-market motion, spanning New Logo, Growth, and Commercial/hybrid motions across a fast-growing, multi-country region.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will partner directly with the VP of EMEA and the region's Account Executives, Business Development Reps, and Solutions Architects to deliver the insights, enablement, and processes that power territory design, quota allocation, pipeline and forecasting hygiene, and the region's operating cadence. Because EMEA spans many countries and time zones relative to global GTM Operations and Systems teams based in the US, this role requires someone who can operate with real autonomy, exercise judgment on what to escalate versus solve locally, and represent EMEA's specific needs (FSI and financial services-heavy Strategic accounts across UK/Ireland and DACH, multiple hybrid Commercial motions, territory splits across UK/Ireland, DACH, Nordics, and Southern Europe) back into Temporal's global GTM Operations function.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're building a GTM Operations function that is AI-native from the ground up. We expect this leader to bring demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate analysis, surface insights, and scale operational work—not as a future aspiration, but as a core part of how they work today.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Serve as the dedicated Sales Operations partner for EMEA, supporting New Logo, Growth, and Commercial/hybrid motions across the region, and knowing when to solve locally versus escalate to global GTM Operations or Systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with the VP of EMEA and regional sales leadership to deliver actionable insights on net-new pipeline generation, account penetration, and territory design.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own pipeline visibility and forecasting hygiene across all EMEA motions, including large complex enterprise deals, consumption workload ramps, and Commercial/self-serve pipeline.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Conduct white-space and TAM analysis to identify high-propensity targets across EMEA's markets, with particular attention to the region's concentration of financial services, banking, and fintech accounts.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify process gaps across the region's hunting, growth, and hybrid motions, and partner with GTM Systems to scope and implement automation—including AI-assisted workflows that reduce manual effort and increase regional coverage.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Analyse regional sales performance (win/loss, deal velocity, conversion, quota attainment) across segments, and translate findings into clear recommendations for the VP of EMEA and regional leaders; leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and surface patterns at scale.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and maintain Salesforce and Omni reporting and dashboards tailored to EMEA, supporting Strategic, Growth, and Commercial views (including CQA/Tiered accou