Senior Business Partner – Go-to-Market; Sales & Marketing

Talkdesk is seeking a highly strategic, high-autonomy Senior People Business Partner to drive the organizational health, talent strategy, and commercial scale of our Go-to-Market (GTM) organization, focusing specifically on Sales and Marketing
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Operating within our regional PBP model, you will partner directly with VP-and-below leaders across Enterprise Sales, Inside Sales, Channel Sales, Field Marketing, Brand, and Marketing Operations. Your mission is to align people strategy with aggressive revenue and growth targets, building a high-performing, agile commercial organization. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for an experienced HR practitioner who thrives in a fast-paced, quota-driven environment and can flex seamlessly between strategic coaching and execution.

Talkdesk is seeking a highly strategic, high-autonomy Senior People Business Partner to drive the organizational health, talent strategy, and commercial scale of our Go-to-Market (GTM) organization, focusing specifically on Sales and Marketing
.

Operating within our regional PBP model, you will partner directly with VP-and-below leaders across Enterprise Sales, Inside Sales, Channel Sales, Field Marketing, Brand, and Marketing Operations. Your mission is to align people strategy with aggressive revenue and growth targets, building a high-performing, agile commercial organization. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for an experienced HR practitioner who thrives in a fast-paced, quota-driven environment and can flex seamlessly between strategic coaching and execution.

As the dedicated Senior PBP for Sales & Marketing, your core responsibilities will include:

• GTM Advisory: Act as the primary People Business Partner for our AMER Sales and Marketing organizations, building strong, consultative relationships with VP-level commercial leaders.
• Commercial Org Design: Provide guidance on sales and marketing organizational design, including optimizing territory coverage models, spans of control, marketing team structures, and capacity planning.
• Incentive & Compensation Strategy: Partner with Sales Operations and Total Rewards to advise on sales compensation structures, commission dynamics, merit cycles, promotions, and strategic offer construction for highly competitive GTM talent.
• Talent Pipelines: Partner with Recruiting to execute aggressive headcount planning, build robust talent pipelines, and refine role scoping to attract top-tier commercial talent.

• AI Fluency in GTM: Champion Talkdesk's AI Fluency competency framework within Sales and Marketing, embedding AI expectations into core sales methodologies, marketing competencies, and calibration conversations.
• Modernizing GTM Workflows: Serve as a change agent helping Sales and Marketing teams adopt AI-first ways of working (e.g., AI-assisted lead gen, automated sales prospecting, and AI-driven content generation).
• Enablement &
  
  Coaching:
  
  Partner with sales and marketing managers to coach employees toward Practitioner, Builder, and Strategist-level AI fluency, designing targeted performance plans where necessary.
• Performance Calibration: Lead localized mid-year and annual review cycles, ensuring performance ratings, sales quotas, and AI fluency benchmarks are calibrated fairly and consistently.

• High-Performance Culture: Coach sales and marketing managers on navigating high-pressure performance dynamics, managing PIP processes, and structuring clear career progression paths.
• Engagement & Retention: Drive targeted retention and engagement strategies for high-performing, high-potential (HiPo) commercial talent, using data from engagement surveys (e.g., Peakon/Workday) to build leadership action plans.
• Global
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with the broader regional PBP team (Americas, EMEA, APAC/Philippines) to ensure global consistency across our international commercial offices and navigate multi-jurisdictional sales employment structures.

• Professional
  
  Experience:
  
  8+ years of progressive HR/People Business Partner experience, with a strong preference for direct support of high-performing Sales, Marketing, or broader GTM functions.
• ELT-Adjacent Partnership: Demonstrated experience operating at a senior level, successfully advising VP and above stakeholders in a fast-paced, matrixed commercial setting.
• GTM HR Technical Expertise:
  • Strong working knowledge of global…