
Rachel Haley
Co-Founder & CEO at Clarus Designs
Clarus helps young startups find traction and scale by optimizing their sales process with strategy and outsourced execution.
Rachel has grown her business 200% (YOY) to a $2 million dollar annual run rate.
Clarus is a mission based business focused on female empowerment. 90% of their staff are women and many are working stay-at-home mothers.
- Millionaire Maker
- Podcast Pro
- Sales
- Business
- 📍 San Francisco, CA
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- How a good process is necessary to provide good data and generate insights. Often times sales leaders overlook the importance of a streamlined process and just want insights into what the data is telling them. With no process, you have no data, without data you have no insights.
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Rachel Haley has worked in the finance and tech industry for the past 10 years.
Rachel started her career at Hall Capital Partners in the portfolio management group, focusing on portfolio management, market analysis and financial modeling. After Hall Capital, Rachel moved to Salesforce to work in the finance and strategy department.
In 2015, she Co-Founded Clarus Designs, which now has over 100 employees globally. Most recently, Rachel worked as the Senior Director of Sales Operations and Strategy at Snowflake, where she helped the company grow from 300 people to over 2,000 and more than 10X-ing in annual revenue.
Rachel’s core focus is flawless execution; “I’d rather have a sub-optimal strategy with flawless execution as opposed to constantly shifting strategy to fit a particular box.”

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Rachel Haley
Co-Founder & CEO at Clarus Designs
- Millionaire Maker
- Podcast Pro
- Business
- Sales
- 📍 San Francisco, CA
Clarus helps young startups find traction and scale by optimizing their sales process with strategy and outsourced execution.
Rachel has grown her business 200% (YOY) to a $2 million dollar annual run rate.
Clarus is a mission based business focused on female empowerment. 90% of their staff are women and many are working stay-at-home mothers.
read more
Let's talk about
- How a good process is necessary to provide good data and generate insights. Often times sales leaders overlook the importance of a streamlined process and just want insights into what the data is telling them. With no process, you have no data, without data you have no insights.
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Rachel Haley has worked in the finance and tech industry for the past 10 years.
Rachel started her career at Hall Capital Partners in the portfolio management group, focusing on portfolio management, market analysis and financial modeling. After Hall Capital, Rachel moved to Salesforce to work in the finance and strategy department.
In 2015, she Co-Founded Clarus Designs, which now has over 100 employees globally. Most recently, Rachel worked as the Senior Director of Sales Operations and Strategy at Snowflake, where she helped the company grow from 300 people to over 2,000 and more than 10X-ing in annual revenue.
Rachel’s core focus is flawless execution; “I’d rather have a sub-optimal strategy with flawless execution as opposed to constantly shifting strategy to fit a particular box.”
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Rachel Haley
Co-Founder & CEO at Clarus Designs
- 📍 San Francisco, CA
- Millionaire Maker
- Entrepreneur
- Sales
Clarus helps young startups find traction and scale by optimizing their sales process with strategy and outsourced execution.
Rachel has grown her business 200% (YOY) to a $2 million dollar annual run rate.
Clarus is a mission based business focused on female empowerment. 90% of their staff are women and many are working stay-at-home mothers.
read more
Let's talk about
- How a good process is necessary to provide good data and generate insights. Often times sales leaders overlook the importance of a streamlined process and just want insights into what the data is telling them. With no process, you have no data, without data you have no insights.
- Rachel has an audience greater than 2,000 and she is happy to share with her fans!
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Rachel Haley has worked in the finance and tech industry for the past 10 years.
Rachel started her career at Hall Capital Partners in the portfolio management group, focusing on portfolio management, market analysis and financial modeling. After Hall Capital, Rachel moved to Salesforce to work in the finance and strategy department.
In 2015, she Co-Founded Clarus Designs, which now has over 100 employees globally. Most recently, Rachel worked as the Senior Director of Sales Operations and Strategy at Snowflake, where she helped the company grow from 300 people to over 2,000 and more than 10X-ing in annual revenue.
Rachel’s core focus is flawless execution; “I’d rather have a sub-optimal strategy with flawless execution as opposed to constantly shifting strategy to fit a particular box.”
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In this episode, Rachel Haley, Senior Director of Sales Operations at Snowflake, talks about Snowflakes’ cloud data platform where customers can aggregate data sources from across a company and run complex analytics at scale. She also discusses the best practices that can be employed by a company in the incentive plan for their sales teams and the importance of putting in a concrete process before analyzing data.
Timeline
Nov 2016 - current
Co-Founder & CEO – Clarus Designs
A consulting firm specializing in corporate growth through efficient scaling to maximize potential. Through personalized support companies receive custom designed analysis’ and deliverables; along with effective data organization and monitoring to help identify and track key metrics. Furthermore, projects are implemented to ensure results and employ flexible agreements allowing dynamic changes for future growth.
Nov 2017 – Mar 2020
Senior Director Sales Operations – Snowflake Computing
Snowflake’s cloud data platform shatters the barriers that have prevented organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value from their data. More than 2,000 customers deploy Snowflake to advance their businesses beyond what was once possible by deriving all the insights from all their data by all their business users. Snowflake equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
May 2013 – Sept 2015
Manager, Finance & Strategy – Salesforce
Feb 2011 – May 2013
Senior Portfolio Management Analyst – Hall Capital Partners
Construct financial models to perform interest rate shock, liquidity, attribution, and asset allocation analyses for six client portfolios totaling over $2.9 billion. Serve as liaison on behalf of six client portfolios with external investment entities to procure and analyze investment performance as well as monitor daily portfolio activity. Produce quarterly client reports which incorporate performance analysis, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Assist in managing client transactions including stock sales, wire transfers, charitable gifts and investment funding. Track and analyze performance data.
2010
🎓 Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Santa Clara University with a dual degree in Economics and Finance
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What was your biggest failure as an entrepreneur? |
What is a key piece of advice you would recommend to others looking to start a business? |
What is / are the most common mistake/s you see sales executives make today? |
What is your prioritization framework (i.e. how do you "do it all")? |
Can you debunk a common preconceived notion most people have around starting a business? |
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