Head of GTM Field Strategy & Ops, EMEA

<h2><strong>About Us:</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.</p><h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fireworks is building out its EMEA go-to-market from London. The Head of GTM Field Strategy &amp; Ops, EMEA is the business partner and strategic thought partner to the Head of Sales, EMEA, and the EMEA leadership team. You turn EMEA growth targets into plans the field can run: quotas, territories, coverage, organization design, and an operating rhythm that produces decisions.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will sit inside the Sales Strategy &amp; Analytics team and work every day with the EMEA sales leadership. You will run the weekly forecast call and pipeline council for the region, lead EMEA planning with Sales, Field Engineering and Finance, and adapt Fireworks' global standards to local markets without fragmenting them.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fireworks sells on consumption and hybrid commit + usage models, and EMEA is growing quickly from a young base. The right candidate has done this kind of work for a regional sales leader before, is comfortable making a call with limited history, and can build structure while the business is moving.</p><h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2><h3><strong>Business Partnership &amp; Strategy</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Act as strategic thought partner to the Head of Sales, EMEA, and the leadership team on where to focus, where to invest and what to stop.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Translate EMEA growth objectives into quarterly priorities, market focus, account coverage and resource allocation.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead the weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews for EMEA, with clear decisions, owners and deadlines.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Adapt global sales process and rules of engagement to EMEA, in line with global standards.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Forecast &amp; Pipeline Cadence</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run the EMEA weekly forecast call and pipeline council: inspect deals, pressure-test commits and surface risk early.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own forecast accuracy and pipeline coverage for the region, and explain misses.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with GTM Analytics and Revenue Operations to keep the data and tooling behind the cadence accurate and fast.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Planning, Quotas &amp; Capacity</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive EMEA annual and in-year planning with Sales leadership, Field Engineering leadership and Finance.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set and recommend quotas in alignment with sa