About the Role
Independence Pet Holdings is seeking a B2B Sales & Operations Leader to drive North America sales expansion and commercial operations. This role will accelerate partner adoption, optimize operational excellence, and shape scalable commercial infrastructure for long-term success. The ideal candidate is data-driven, execution-focused, and has experience scaling sales systems in fast-growing, operationally complex environments.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the multi-year B2B sales strategy for software and microchipping in the shelter and veterinary industry.
- Build and manage a robust pipeline and drive roadmap planning that accelerates revenue and market penetration across priority B2B categories.
- Identify emerging opportunities in pet wellness, data products, digital media, and integrated partner solutions.
- Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing B2B sales teams across direct sales, account management, and channel partnerships.
- Establish and monitor key performance metrics, cadence reviews, and forecasting accuracy.
- Drive adoption of 24Pet services (e.g., software, microchip sales and registrations, lost-pet recovery services, shelter solutions) and PetPlace consumer engagement products.
- Build a world-class partner success function ensuring seamless onboarding, ongoing value delivery, and high retention.
- Create partner programs, co-marketing initiatives, and data insights that strengthen partner relationships and recurring revenue.
- Oversee end-to-end B2B operational processes including contracting, fulfillment, billing, inventory coordination, and service delivery.
- Collaborate closely with operations, technology, product, marketing, and customer service to ensure scalable, efficient workflows.
- Implement systems and tools that enhance sales efficiency, data visibility, and performance management.
- Develop strategic roadmap for enterprise partnerships and integrations that will add value to our solutions, supporting acquisition and retention.
- Lead relationships with external B2B enterprise partnerships to scale growth for both B2B and B2C.
- Develop internal processes that support rigorous prioritization and seamless execution of partnerships, enabling faster scale and improved revenue outcomes.
- Partner with Product to bring new B2B solutions to market informed by partner needs and market intelligence.
- Collaborate with Marketing (including B2B demand gen, partner communications, and vertical-specific messaging) to strengthen brand presence and lead generation.
- Work with Finance on forecasting, modeling, pricing strategy, and revenue optimization.
- Monitor industry trends across animal welfare, veterinary care, shelter operations, pet insurance, pet wellness platforms, and consumer to inform future development.
- Represent 24Pet and PetPlace at industry events, trade shows, and executive partner meetings.
- Serve as a strategic advisor on the evolving B2B landscape and competitive positioning.
Requirements
- 10+ years of B2B sales leadership.
- Experience in animal welfare, veterinary care, pet care, health-tech, SaaS, or related industries strongly preferred.
- Proven track record scaling multi‑million‑dollar revenue growth and building high-performing, cross-functional teams.
- Deep experience in operational process improvement, CRM/RevOps systems, partner onboarding, and lifecycle management.
- Exceptional executive communication, negotiation, relationship-building, and strategic planning skills.
- Comfort operating within a complex, matrixed environment and scaling programs across multiple brands or business units.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to use data to guide decisions and identify growth opportunities.
Skills
- B2B sales strategy
- Pipeline management
- Roadmap planning
- Sales team leadership
- Key performance metrics
- Forecasting
- Partner success
- Partner programs
- Co-marketing initiatives
- Operational process improvement
- CRM/RevOps systems
- Partner onboarding
- Lifecycle management
- Executive communication
- Negotiation
- Relationship-building
- Strategic planning
- Analytical mindset
- Data analysis
Location
- Remote – USA
- Preference given to New York City or Chicago
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of B2B sales leadership
Benefits
- Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
- Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Company paid short-term and long-term disability
- 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Retirement savings plan
- Personal Paid Time Off
- Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
- Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
- Pet friendly office environment
- Commuter Benefits
- Group Pet Insurance
- On the job training and skills development
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
About the Company
- Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America.
- We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets.
- As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents.
- Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands.
- PetPlace is a subsidiary of Independence Pet Holdings (IPH, now Doubtless).
- PetPlace is building a digital first pet e-commerce platform with the aim of connecting key market services such as adoption, lost pet and insurance to make pet care easy.
- PetPlace is a leading B2B2C brand in the animal welfare industry, delivering innovative solutions spanning animal welfare software, microchipping, post-adoption support, lost pet recovery, insurance, and data-driven services for partners across shelters, veterinary networks, pet care providers and enterprise organizations.
- It’s central data ecosystem houses the largest pet registry in North America, 24PetWatch, and provides support to pet parents who are looking to adopt or recently adopted through PetPlace.com.
- ASPCA Pet Health Insurance, Embrace, Felix, Figo, Independence American Insurance Company, Pets Best, Pethealth, PetPartners, PetPlace, and Pumpkin are all operated by Independence Pet Holdings (IPH).
Equal Opportunity
- At IPH, we welcome and encourage applications from individuals with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all aspects of the selection process.
