The CEO's Guide to RevOps
Sangram Vajre
Built two $100M+ companies | WSJ Best Selling Author of MOVE on go-to-market | GTMonday Editor with 175K+ subscribers teaching the GTM Operating System
Attention CEO's: do you know how revenue operations teams can elevate data, process, and collaboration across silos?
Research: The CEO’s Guide to RevOps
If you’re a CEO running a B2B company, chances are your sales, marketing, and customer success teams are working hard—but often not in sync.
That’s where Revenue Operations (RevOps) comes in. Think of RevOps as the control center of your entire go-to-market (GTM) strategy.
It’s the team that ensures alignment, drives accountability, and uses data to supercharge your revenue growth. Let's dive into why this matters and how it can transform your business.
Why Should CEO’s Care About RevOps?
RevOps isn’t just a behind-the-scenes function. It’s the linchpin that connects your GTM teams to your business goals. When RevOps is set up strategically, it can help your company:
In short, RevOps gives you the tools to make better decisions and scale faster.
The Key Goals of RevOps
1. Define Metrics That Matter You’ve probably seen RevOps teams churn out endless dashboards and reports. But here’s the problem: reporting for the sake of reporting wastes time. Your RevOps team should prioritize metrics that align directly with your GTM goals, such as CAC, pipeline velocity, and segment performance.
2. Create Repeatable Processes Sales doesn’t close deals in a vacuum. Marketing, sales, and customer success all need to work in lockstep. RevOps has the unique ability to oversee and streamline these workflows, ensuring seamless handoffs between teams. This eliminates inefficiencies like leads “falling through the cracks.”
3. Foster Confidence in Data If you’ve ever doubted the numbers in your CRM, you’re not alone. Bad data is the enemy of good decisions. A strong RevOps team cleans up the clutter, focusing on the core 30-40 metrics that drive strategic decisions instead of tracking every possible data point.
4. Unite Teams Through Data Data is the great equalizer. It cuts through opinions and internal politics. RevOps provides your teams with unbiased insights to drive collaboration and accountability.
Driving Accountability and Action
RevOps isn’t just about tracking KPIs—it’s about driving results. Here are a few examples of how RevOps can take action:
Scenario 1: Your pipeline is lagging RevOps analyzes the situation: Are your ideal customer profiles (ICP) clearly defined? Which channels are underperforming? Are campaigns missing the mark? They then recommend targeted actions to get your pipeline back on track.
Scenario 2: Teams are siloed RevOps uses data to bring sales, marketing, and customer success together. They provide a single source of truth, helping teams make data-driven decisions rather than working in silos.
Scenario 3: Resource allocation needs to shift RevOps can quickly identify areas where budget or headcount could be reallocated for better returns—whether that’s cutting low-performing programs or doubling down on a winning strategy.
Elevating RevOps Beyond a Support Role
RevOps isn’t just an internal service team.
When fully empowered, they are crucial in improving customer experience and boosting lifetime value (LTV).
By analyzing customer data holistically, they can:
Some organizations even debate whether RevOps should "carry a bag" (i.e., have direct revenue targets). While that’s still evolving, it underscores their strategic importance in driving growth.
Final Thoughts for CEOs
Revenue Operations is the connective tissue that binds your GTM efforts into a unified system.
If your teams feel misaligned or your growth isn’t meeting expectations, it’s time to take a closer look at RevOps.
Prioritizing data integrity, repeatable processes, and cross-functional collaboration could unlock new levels of efficiency and growth.
Is your RevOps team driving strategic growth—or stuck in reactive mode?
Book a workshop designed for CEOs and their go-to-market teams. In this interactive session, we’ll:
Our only requirements are 1) that the CEO must be involved in the process and 2) you must be around $10M+ in revenue.
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Spotlight: Anurag Goel with Red Hat
Anurag Goel, Global Head of Value Consulting and Realization at Red Hat, shares his insights on the importance of ROI in go-to-market strategies.
In preparation for 2025 GTM planning, Anurag found the GTM Partners' ROI models particularly valuable. These models—featuring frameworks like the five types of ROI and tools to avoid "the muddy middle"—help address a critical challenge: articulating the business impact of investments, particularly in AI.
Citing research from GTM Partners, Anurag notes that around 60% of companies struggle to demonstrate ROI, a figure he believes is likely much higher given the current focus on AI spending.
As ROI remains a key priority for businesses in the coming year, Anurag looks forward to further collaboration and learning opportunities with GTM Partners to enhance Red Hat’s strategic initiatives.
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2moAt what stage should one transition from GTMOps to RevOps?
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