The RevOps Review

The RevOps Review

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Interviewing leading revenue operators - reviewing the ever changing landscape of GTM operations to keep your revenue engine on track.

Episodes(40 episodes)

Season 1 - Episode 117
First Principles GTM: Scaling PLG, Sales-Assist, and the AI-Powered Revenue Machine with Gaurav Agarwal
Jeff sits down with Gaurav Agarwal to unpack how first principles thinking helps leaders build repeatable growth without falling back on stale playbooks. They dig into the mechanics of a revenue machine, generate demand, close demand, grow customers, and how ClickUp has evolved from pure PLG to sales-assist and into true sales-led growth.Gaurav also shares a sharp POV on AI agents: where they drive real productivity, why “more output” can create misalignment and “slop,” and what operators must do to keep teams (and agents) pulling in the same direction. If you’re navigating GTM strategy, annual planning...
Published: Jan 2, 2026Duration: 24m 45s
Season 1 - Episode 116
Vibe Coding: The Skill Every GTM Team Will Need by 2027 with Manny Bernabe
Manny Bobe joins Jeff to break down the fast-emerging world of vibe coding — AI-guided software creation that’s turning non-technical people into product builders. Manny shares his journey from CFA to data scientist to AI evangelist, explains why coding skills became his career unlock, and shows how AI removes the need for complex environments, dev setup, and backend knowledge. Together they explore real-world examples from RevOps, sales, and product teams using vibe coding to solve problems instantly and build tools no SaaS vendor ever would.
Published: Dec 19, 2025Duration: 24m 1s
Season 1 - Episode 115
From Cadence to Confidence: How RevOps Builds High-Trust GTM Systems with Brandon Bienstock
Jeff sits down with Brandon Bienstock to explore how a strong operating cadence turns RevOps into the engine of a high-trust GTM. They unpack the four core rhythms and how democratising insights creates alignment across the entire revenue team.Brandon shares why scorecards should prioritise quality over vanity metrics, why simple comp plans drive the best behaviour, and why great RevOps leaders “walk the floor” to truly understand how reps sell.If you're tightening your GTM motion or refreshing your operating rhythm for next year, this episode is well worth your time.
Published: Dec 12, 2025Duration: 17m 6s
Season 1 - Episode 114
Why Most Growth Models Fail - And How to Fix Them with Lean Scale’s Anthony Enrico
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Anthony Enrico, Founder & CEO of LeanScale, for a deep dive into one of the biggest blind spots in modern GTM: building a growth model that actually matches reality.Anthony breaks down why so many revenue teams fail before execution even begins, from unrealistic plans set months before leaders join, to pipeline targets built without understanding sales cycle timing, to ICP definitions that are far too broad to drive efficiency.
Published: Dec 5, 2025Duration: 22m 41s
Season 1 - Episode 113
Why RevOps Needs to Build, Not Just Buy, in the Age of AI
In this episode, Cliff Hawkins, Senior Director of Revenue Operations at Level AI, shares how he’s reimagining RevOps by blending community, experimentation, and automation. Cliff walks through how his team built custom AI workflows to summarise every customer interaction, cutting manual effort while boosting visibility for sales and success teams. He also dives into why outbound isn’t dead, the importance of hyper-personalisation in crowded markets, and how “doing more with less” is shaping org design and new roles like the go‑to‑market engineer. This conversation is packed with real, tested playb...
Published: Nov 28, 2025Duration: 19m 21s
Season 1 - Episode 112
Growing a Seed-Stage Startup the Smart Way with Kyle Himmelwright, VP of Strategy and Operations at Luster
What happens when a RevOps leader takes the leap into running a seed-stage startup? In this episode, Kyle Himmelwright, VP of Strategy and Operations at Luster, joins Jeff Ignacio to talk about building from scratch, from defining focus in a massive TAM to using AI for top-of-funnel efficiency. They unpack what “predictive enablement” really means, how to stay adaptable without losing focus, and why cultivating your network might be the most underrated skill in operations today.
Published: Nov 21, 2025Duration: 23m 45s
Season 1 - Episode 111
"AI Won’t Fix Broken Processes": GTM Strategy, RevOps, and the Rise of the AI Engineer with Kristina McMillan
In this episode, Kristina McMillan, Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, shares what she’s seeing across Scale’s portfolio when it comes to AI adoption in revenue teams. From the rise of the go-to-market engineer to the three levels of AI maturity, Kristina breaks down what’s working, what’s hype, and why RevOps needs to lead with strategy, not just tools. We also get into AI’s real impact on metrics like ARR per employee, the role of internal AI hackathons, and how top teams are choosing between building and buying. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the pace...
Published: Nov 14, 2025Duration: 23m 47s
Season 1 - Episode 110
AI Workflows, Change Management, and GTM Velocity with Harry Siggins, Founder of OneTwo Growth Studio
Harry explains how he “AI’d the company” from the inside out, then took the same playbook to clients - covering stakeholder buy-in, resource orchestration, and end-to-end GTM flows that keep messaging in sync with the website. Concrete, tool-level detail and repeatable patterns.
Published: Nov 7, 2025Duration: 24m 47s
Season 1 - Episode 109
How RevOps Can Use AI to Automate the Boring Stuff (and Get Strategic Again)
RevOps pros spend too much time fixing data and not enough driving growth. Mason McMullin, VP of RevOps and Strategy at Alysio explains how his team uses AI to streamline reporting, clean data, and cut tool-switching. He shares his playbook for prompting LLMs effectively, building a reliable data dictionary, and freeing Ops to focus on what really matters: strategy and enablement.
Published: Oct 31, 2025Duration: 22m 49s
Season 1 - Episode 108
RevOps in the Age of AI with Lindsay Rothlisberger, Director of Revenue Operations at Zapier
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Lindsay Roethlisberger, Director of Revenue Operations at Zapier, to explore how RevOps is evolving in a world increasingly shaped by AI. Lindsay shares her journey from Zapier’s first marketing ops hire to leading a 12-person RevOps team spanning analytics, automation, and enablement.Together, they dig into:How Zapier uses AI across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise motionsThe difference between AI-driven workflows and agents - and where each fitsPractical use cases, from chat classification to renewal prep to sales coachingWhy Re...
Published: Oct 17, 2025Duration: 33m 24s
Season 1 - Episode 107
RevOps for Dual GTM Motions: AI, PLG, and the Tenacity Advantage with Alex Kean of Merge
Jeff sits down with Alex Kean, Director of Revenue Operations at Merge, to explore what it really takes to run RevOps across two go-to-market motions, enterprise sales and a new PLG product launch.Alex unpacks how his lean RevOps team supports Merge’s sales-led engine while prepping for a parallel PLG motion, without breaking existing systems. He shares how his team is leveraging AI and agentic workflows for internal use, including customer health summaries and Slack-ready exec dashboards.
Published: Oct 10, 2025Duration: 18m 58s
Season 1 - Episode 106
From RevOps to AI Ops: Building Smarter, Leaner GTM Systems with Brandon Smith of QuotaPath
In this episode of RevOps Review, Jeff Ignacio welcomes Brandon Smith, Director of Revenue Operations & AI Strategy at QuotaPath, to break down how one-person RevOps teams can punch way above their weight using AI. Brandon shares how he’s driving ARR per head through intelligent automation, building custom apps on “Good Vibe Coding Fridays,” and teaching go-to-market teams to become builders themselves.You’ll hear how QuotaPath is turning microtools into macro impact, why Brandon favours human-in-the-loop AI over full automation, and how he uses one-on-one GTM interviews to source real problems, not just shiny ideas. If you’re t...
Published: Oct 3, 2025Duration: 21m 49s
Season 1 - Episode 105
Scaling Smarter, Not Harder with James Kase, Associate Director of Revenue Operations at Healthie
James Case, Associate Director of Revenue Operations at Healthie, shares his non-linear journey into RevOps - from customer service to sales to operations - and the lessons he’s learned along the way. He breaks down how frontline experience shaped his empathy for sales teams, the importance of prioritisation and change management, and how Healthy is using AI and automation to remove admin work and let providers focus on care. A candid conversation on resourcefulness, scaling processes, and building systems that last.
Published: Sep 26, 2025Duration: 23m 0s
Season 1 - Episode 104
CSQLs to ICP Fit: Building a RevOps Operating System with Danielle Kaetzer, VP of RevOps at Betterworks
BetterWorks’ VP of RevOps, Danielle Kaetzer, shares how to turn activity into pipeline - mapping the customer journey, standing up CSQLs with CS/AM, aligning marketing–SDR–AE playbooks, simplifying the stack, and shifting the scoreboard from “meetings booked” to opportunity creation and velocity.
Published: Sep 19, 2025Duration: 25m 34s
Season 1 - Episode 103
Turning Customer Success Into a Revenue Engine with Andrea Bumstead, Founder of CS Impact
Andrea Bumstead, founder of CS Impact and fractional Chief Customer Officer, shares how she built her business by solving big challenges companies were too hesitant to commit to full-time. She explains why CS teams must tie themselves directly to revenue, the pitfalls of traditional QBRs and her 15-minute QBR framework, and how to forecast renewals in messy real-world environments. Andrea also offers advice to GTM leaders on why investing in yourself is the best way to keep pace in today’s rapidly evolving landscape.
Published: Sep 12, 2025Duration: 31m 5s
Season 1 - Episode 102
AI & the New Frontier of GTM Ops with Hubspot’s Rich Archbold
In this episode of RevOps Review, Jeff Ignacio sits down with Rich Archbold, SVP at HubSpot, for a deep dive into how one of the most iconic GTM platforms is using AI, not just to scale workflows, but to rethink them entirely.Rich shares how HubSpot is applying AI across the customer journey, from CRM hygiene to guided selling, to coaching reps via custom GPTs, and how frontline teams are quietly becoming GTM engineers themselves. They explore what happens when every employee uses AI, how this impacts org design (including middle management), and why building a “faster ho...
Published: Sep 5, 2025Duration: 18m 58s
Season 1 - Episode 101
Go-to-Market Engineering: Beyond RevOps with Patrick Spychalski, Co-Founder of The Kiln
Patrick Spychalski, co-founder of The Kiln, joins to unpack the growing role of go-to-market engineering. From his early work creating content for Clay to founding one of the first GTM engineering agencies, Patrick explains how GTM engineering differs from RevOps, the core tools and workflows driving efficiency today, and why companies should focus on doing more with fewer - but smarter - systems.
Published: Aug 29, 2025Duration: 21m 13s
Season 1 - Episode 100
Scaling Smarter: Cold Email, GTM Engineering & Operational Rigour with Noah Adelstein of Rippling
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Noah Adelstein, who leads international growth at Rippling and hosts The GTM Engineer podcast. They unpack how Noah helped scale Rippling’s Australia team from 10 to 80+, the evolving state of cold email, and how GTM engineers are reshaping the way we think about growth. Noah shares why marketers must obsess over follow-up as much as lead gen, how AI fits into outbound strategy (without going off the rails), and why constantly rethinking org structure may be the most underrated superpower in modern GTM.
Published: Aug 22, 2025Duration: 24m 24s
Season 1 - Episode 99
Data Infrastructure Is the New GTM Strategy, with Brian Aggerbeck, VP of Professional Services at Cognism
Enterprises are rethinking go-to-market from the ground up. And the foundation is clean, unified, orchestrated data. In this episode, Brian Aggerbeck shares how leading companies are using Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) to build centralised architectures that fuel GTM at scale, without adding more tools or noise. From composable systems to AI-readiness, this is a masterclass in what’s next for RevOps, data leaders, and modern growth teams.
Published: Aug 15, 2025Duration: 34m 24s
Season 1 - Episode 98
The RevOps Nerve Center: Data, Cadence, and the AI-Ready Stack with John Queally
Jeff Ignacio sits down with John Queally, Senior Director of RevOps at Clari, to explore how modern RevOps can go from support function to strategic command center. John shares how his team leverages product telemetry, AI-powered account health scores, and a unified cadence to drive real outcomes across the GTM funnel. They also dig into why RevOps must own data quality in the AI era, and why sometimes the best ops leaders step outside of ops to level up. If you’re serious about scaling smarter, this one’s for you.
Published: Aug 8, 2025Duration: 27m 17s