Sales Compensation Manager

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · New York, NY · Revenue Operations

Sales Compensation Manager role focused on designing, building, and administering variable compensation plans for a fast-scaling GTM organization. Responsibilities include metric implementation, commission calculations, stakeholder collaboration, process documentation, and partnering with RevOps and Finance on strategy and quota rollout. Requires end-to-end ownership of sales compensation, proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, and experience with compensation tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and administer variable compensation plans across GTM, globally
  2. Implement metrics for the plans that are specific, measurable, and align with company priorities
  3. Own day-to-day commissions administration and calculations, ensuring payments are accurate and timely
  4. Collaborate with Finance on payout reporting, commission accruals, and ad hoc analysis
  5. Lead stakeholder conversations with sales leaders to understand team goals and design plans that drive the right behaviors

Skills

Required

  • Sales Compensation
  • Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • commission calculations
  • compensation tool experience

Nice to have

  • CaptivateIQ
  • Xactly
  • Varicent
  • RevOps
  • Finance
  • Sales leadership collaboration
  • Process documentation
  • Enablement materials

What the JD emphasized

  • design, administration, tooling, and stakeholder management
  • primary for multiple teams within GTM
  • build the process infrastructure that makes accurate, timely commission payouts possible at scale
  • comfortable with ambiguity, fast-changing priorities, and an environment where the process is still being built