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Nooks

Builds AI software for sales outreach and coaching

Founding Business Operations Lead

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Business & StrategyBusiness Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • Have 5–10 years of experience in Business Operations, Strategy, Consulting, Chief of Staff, or a similar analytical role.
  • Have experience operating in a high-growth technology company or advising one.
  • Be highly analytical and comfortable working with data to drive decisions.
  • Move seamlessly between strategy and execution.
  • Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy solving complex, unstructured problems.
  • Have strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Be highly organized and able to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.
  • Have a strong bias toward action and ownership.
  • Enjoy working directly with senior leaders on high-stakes decisions.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with company leadership to drive strategic initiatives from concept to execution.
  • Own core business planning processes, including annual planning, quarterly OKRs, headcount planning, and resource allocation.
  • Build and maintain operating cadences that improve alignment, accountability, and execution across teams.
  • Analyze business performance and develop insights that inform key company decisions.
  • Create dashboards, reporting frameworks, and metrics that help leaders understand the health of the business.
  • Lead cross-functional projects spanning Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, and Recruiting.
  • Identify operational bottlenecks and design scalable processes that enable growth.
  • Support executive decision-making through financial, operational, and strategic analysis.
  • Evaluate new opportunities, investments, and business initiatives through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  • Prepare executive materials, board content, and strategic recommendations for leadership discussions.
  • Ensure the company's most important priorities move forward quickly and effectively.

About the company

Nooks builds AI sales software for business revenue teams, combining prospect research, customer outreach and coaching in one workspace. Its AI Dialer calls several prospects at once and connects a sales representative when someone answers, while AI Sequencing coordinates calls, emails and social outreach. Signals and Intelligence uses customer records and outside data to prioritize accounts, and AI Coaching supports practice calls, feedback and review of recorded conversations. Teams connect tools such as Salesforce and HubSpot, and pay for access through quoted subscription contracts. Founded in 2020, Nooks is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$70M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Adoption spans established teams: Nooks said over 1,800 companies used its platform in August 2026, including HubSpot and Rippling.
  • Coaching gained specialist expertise: Nooks acquired AI roleplay company FullyRamped in August 2026, adding its founder to the product team.
  • Stock-option exercise has tenure-based flexibility: Nooks links its employee exercise terms to length of service.

What critics are saying

  • Vendor consolidation has limits: Nooks' ZoomInfo, Apollo and LeadIQ enrichment options require customers to retain those vendors' accounts.
  • Expect broad responsibilities: Nooks tells employees to ship quickly while wearing multiple hats and prioritizing ruthlessly.
  • Agent learning faces delayed feedback: Nooks Labs says sales outcomes arrive late and traditional evaluation breaks down.

What makes Nooks unique

  • Sales interactions feed its research: Nooks says its AI training draws on more than one billion real sales interactions.
  • Customers extend its agents: Nooks says Cursor connects proprietary sales intelligence through a standard interface for external AI tools.
  • Enrichment bills reflect results: Nooks refunds credits when searches fail to find a new mobile number.

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Benefits

  • Company Equity
  • Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-15%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

36%
PR Newswire
Aug 26th, 2026
Nooks acquires FullyRamped as it expands AI Revenue Agent Platform beyond outbound sales

Nooks has acquired FullyRamped, an AI-native sales coaching platform founded in 2024. FullyRamped founder and CEO Aaron Marks joins Nooks' product team following the acquisition. The deal strengthens Nooks' Revenue Agent Platform as the company expands beyond outbound sales. FullyRamped developed AI roleplay and coaching voice agents that simulate realistic prospects for sales training. Marks will help develop Nooks' next-generation agent capabilities and platform infrastructure. "Aaron has been building toward that future from a different angle, with agents sophisticated enough to understand context, interact dynamically with humans, and operate inside real revenue workflows," said Dan Lee, co-founder and CEO of Nooks. Nooks provides AI agents that work alongside revenue teams. More than 1,800 companies, including Deel, Intercom, HubSpot and Rippling, use the platform.

PR Newswire
Aug 19th, 2026
Nooks appoints Loreal Lynch as CMO to lead Revenue Agent Platform expansion

Nooks has appointed Loreal Lynch as chief marketing officer. Lynch joins from Jasper, where she served as CMO, and will lead Nooks' global marketing organisation, focusing on establishing Revenue Agents as an emerging category. The company serves more than 1,800 companies, including Deel, HubSpot, Rippling and Notion. Nooks is expanding its Revenue Agent Platform beyond outbound sales into a multi-product platform spanning the revenue lifecycle. Lynch brings over two decades of experience from technology companies including Salesforce, Tableau and Stripe. At Jasper, she led the company's transformation from an AI content tool into an enterprise marketing platform. Nooks reports customer outcomes including more than three times pipeline sourced, 50% faster representative ramp times, and 10 hours saved per representative weekly.

Associated Press
Jun 10th, 2026
ZoomInfo integrates GTM.AI context layer into Nooks AI sales dialer

ZoomInfo has built a two-way integration with Nooks AI, bringing its B2B intelligence into the Nooks parallel dialer and feeding engagement signals back into ZoomInfo GTM Studio Audiences. The integration is powered by GTM.AI, ZoomInfo's headless GTM context layer. Mutual customers can now access ZoomInfo's verified contact and account data, including phone numbers and intent signals, directly within the Nooks dialer through a native connector. Conversely, Nooks engagement data, such as call attempts and conversation outcomes, flows back into ZoomInfo GTM Studio through a Custom Data Connector. The integration addresses B2B data decay, where approximately 70% of contact data becomes stale annually. GTM.AI enables consistent governance and access control across both platforms and dozens of other integrations. The solution is now generally available to mutual customers.

SalesTech Star
Oct 24th, 2024
Nooks announces $43M Series B and launches AI Sales Assistant Platform

Nooks announced the launch of the first AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) with $43 million in Series B funding.

PR Newswire
Apr 24th, 2024
Nooks Raises $22M for AI Sales Tools

Nooks has raised $22M to enhance sales development by automating manual tasks with AI. The platform, designed by CEO Dan Lee, aims to free reps from busywork, allowing them to focus on strategic selling aspects. Nooks features include an AI Dialer for automating calls, AI Research for personalizing scripts, Nooks Numbers for updating contact data, and Call Analytics for performance insights. This innovation promises to make sales reps 10x more productive by leveraging AI tools.