The Sales Compensation Show
Inside LinkedIn’s SalesOps playbook: Akira Mamizuka’s blueprint for cross-team alignment
March 10, 2025
As a revenue or sales operations leader, you're tasked with enormous responsibility—ensuring every piece of the go-to-market strategy functions smoothly. The backbone of alignment, you shoulder the burden of driving efficiency, data accuracy, and forecasting, while also enabling sales teams to perform at their best. In this episode we’ll explore how Akira Mamizuka, VP of global sales operations for SaaS at LinkedIn proactively breaks down silos, improves communication to streamline GTM execution, drives revenue growth, ensuring every functional team is working toward the same objectives. Listen in for Akira's practical lessons learned for fostering collaboration and creating a unified approach to GTM success.
In complex organizations where teams operate with different KPIs and priorities, fostering a culture of collaboration with stellar sales and operations planning is essential, but endlessly challenging. Few leaders understand how to meet this challenge better than Akira Mamizuka, VP of Global Sales Operations, SaaS, at LinkedIn. Overseeing a portfolio that includes LinkedIn Talent Solutions—responsible for 60% of LinkedIn’s B2B revenue—Akira has spent years fine-tuning the art of bringing cross-functional teams together.  

From scaling LinkedIn’s LATAM operations out of Brazil to leading EMEA sales ops from Ireland, he’s mastered the complexities of driving teams' strategic initiatives across geographies. Before LinkedIn, he crafted revenue and sales strategy playbooks for global enterprises at McKinsey & Company. 

In this episode, he takes us behind the scenes into how LinkedIn ensures cross-functional alignment despite its dual nature as both a consumer platform and a B2B enterprise.

Show notes:
- Akira's book recommendation: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 


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