Director, Sales Compensation
Director, Sales Compensation
Posted 3 days ago
SENIORITY
Manager
About the role
- Serve as the primary relationship manager between Epsilon Sales Compensation and Connected Media leadership.
- Build trusted relationships with Sales Leadership, Finance, Revenue Operations, HR, and Executive partners.
- Ensure Sales Compensation is engaged early in business planning, organizational changes, and compensation strategy discussions.
- Lead recurring governance meetings, executive business reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
- Drive prioritization of initiatives and coordinate work across internal functional teams.
- Lead the design, review, and continuous improvement of sales compensation plans aligned to partner business objectives.
- Partner with leadership to evaluate new sales motions, products, organizational changes, and incentive opportunities.
- Translate business requirements into scalable and operationally executable compensation plans.
- Ensure governance, compliance, and financial alignment throughout the compensation design process.
- Provide executive recommendations supported by financial and performance analysis.
- Lead the annual quota planning process in partnership with Sales Leadership and Finance.
- Develop and maintain quota methodologies supporting both team-based and influencer-based selling models.
- Validate quota allocations and ensure alignment with market opportunity, organizational strategy, and revenue objectives.
- Evaluate quota effectiveness and recommend adjustments based on performance trends and business changes.
- Develop executive-level analysis measuring compensation effectiveness, quota health, payout trends, attainment distributions, and sales performance.
- Find opportunities to improve sales productivity through data-driven insights and recommendations.
- Present findings and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
- Establish key performance metrics that measure the effectiveness of compensation and quota programs.
- Provide strategic oversight to the dedicated Compensation Administration team supporting the partner.
- Perform final review of compensation calculations and payout recommendations prior to partner approval.
- Ensure operational excellence through strong governance, quality controls, and service level execution.
- Partner with Compensation Systems to prioritize enhancements, automation opportunities, and process improvements.
- Lead all compensation and quota-related communications, enablement, and training initiatives.
- Develop materials supporting annual plan rollouts, quota launches, and ongoing process improvements.
- Drive organizational adoption of new compensation programs and operational processes.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of experience in Sales Compensation, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Finance, or related fields.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams and influencing senior business leaders.
- Deep expertise in sales compensation design, incentive governance, and quota methodologies.
- Strong analytical skills with experience evaluating compensation effectiveness, sales performance, and financial outcomes.
- Experience developing executive-level presentations and business recommendations.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Finance, Sales, HR, Revenue Operations, and Technology teams.
- Strong project management and organizational leadership skills.
- Exceptional executive communication and team member management capabilities.
- Experience supporting strategic enterprise clients or partner organizations.
- Expertise in compensation strategy across multiple sales organizations or business units.
- Experience designing compensation plans supporting team selling and influencer-based sales models.
- Strong background in quota planning, territory strategy, and sales performance analytics.
- Experience with compensation platforms such as Xactly, Varicent, CaptivateIQ, SAP Commissions, or similar technologies.
- Experience with Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI, or enterprise analytics platforms.
- MBA or sophisticated business degree.
- Demonstrated success building long-term executive partnerships while leading ground-breaking compensation initiatives.
- Experience in a high-growth tech or digital media company.
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