Ping Identity
Director, Sales Compensation and Planning
USA - Remote · Director
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$220kDetected 14 hours ago
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About the role
- This is an explicit people leadership role.
- The primary components of this role are:
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning process end to end, including project management, timelines, stakeholder intake, decision framing, draft iterations, approvals, and rollout readiness.
- Build scenario models and perform pre-plan and in-year analysis to evaluate plan effectiveness, expected payout outcomes, attainment distributions, and cost implications.
- Partner closely with Finance to support their commission cost modeling, actuals vs. plan reviews, variance analysis, and forward-looking commission expense scenarios.
- Work in close partnership with the commissions team that manage Xactly administration and monthly payout processes to ensure plan design is executable, approvals are clean, and ongoing operations run smoothly.
- Partner with Legal and cross-functional stakeholders to draft, review, and finalize compensation plan language, policy documentation, and exception frameworks.
- Lead sales compensation rollout and field enablement through presentations, reference materials, leader preparation, and direct communication with sales teams.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to sales leaders by building strong relationships, answering field questions, resolving ambiguity, and guiding exception handling with clear recommendations.
- Design and manage SPIF programs, including structure design, cost estimation, approvals, operational setup, tracking, and communication to the field.
- Own Sales Capacity planning and modelling, with attention to trends in the data, the underlying business itself and external market factors.
- Perform routine capacity planning updates and reporting, as well as ad hoc reporting and scenario modelling.
Requirements
- Required Skills & Qualifications
- The role requires strong executive communication, the ability to translate analysis into insights and influence, and the judgment to balance seller motivation, cost discipline, and business strategy.
Nice to have
- Experience with Salesforce, Anaplan, Google Workplace and strong spreadsheet/modeling skills
- familiarity with Xactly is strongly preferred.
Skills
- Ping Identity:
- It's something that inspires our company.
- People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom.
- They come to cultivate it.
- Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want.
- Without friction.
- Without fear.
Compensation
- This role will own end-to-end sales compensation strategy and design, oversee annual and in-year planning, and ensure high-quality execution from modeling through rollout, field enablement, and ongoing governance.
- Own sales compensation strategy, plan design, and annual refresh cycles across applicable sales roles, including plan mechanics, measures, accelerators, kickers, SPIFs, and policy guardrails.
Benefits
- Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
- Parental Leave
- Progressive Healthcare Options
- Retirement Programs
- Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
- Ping is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together.
- Commuter Offset (Specific locations)
Company info
- About Ping Identity: At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise.
- And it's not just something we provide our customers.
- While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture.
Equal opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
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