Senior Manager, Sales Compensation

4 Months ago • 7 Years + • Sales • $138,000 PA - $241,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Sales Compensation for its Sales teams. This role involves collaborating with sales leadership and cross-functional partners to establish variable compensation plans, sales policies, operations, and processes. The manager will also analyze performance, develop recommendations, and implement improvements to existing variable compensation plans. The ideal candidate will have experience in fast-paced environments, preferably at a multi-product SaaS company, and a proven track record of positively impacting sales organizations. Comfort with ambiguous problems and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team are essential. This position offers an opportunity to engage in high-visibility strategic and operational initiatives within a rapidly expanding sales organization.
Must have:
  • 7+ years in Sales Compensation, Strategy, Ops, Finance, or Accounting
  • 2+ years people management experience
  • Experience leading, developing, and building high-performing teams
  • Deep understanding of sales compensation, strategy, and incentive planning

Job Details

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.


Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.


Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.


We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the role

Rippling is looking for a Senior Manager to lead Sales Compensation for our Sales teams. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with sales leadership and other key cross-functional partners to set the variable compensation plans, sales policies, operations, and processes across the sales organization.You’ll also work to uncover insights, develop recommendations, and then implement improvement to our existing variable compensation plans. The ideal candidate will have worked in fast-paced environments before, ideally at a multi-product SaaS company and will have made a measurable impact to the sales organization. You should also be comfortable tackling ambiguous and challenging problems and working independently as well as part of a team.  This is an opportunity to work on high-visibility strategic and operational initiatives in a rapidly growing sales organization.


This role will be based in our San Francisco office and will require being in office 3x/week. 

What you will do

  • Develop compensation recommendations and insights to senior-level stakeholders
  • Lead the strategy & operations for variable compensation throughout the sales organization, including calculations, payouts, planning, auditing, and ad-hoc analysis
  • Build strategic analysis, reporting, documentation, and processes in collaboration with Sales, Finance, Accounting, HR, and Legal
  • Monitor sales incentive plans with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure health of our variable compensation plans
  • Work on strategic and operational initiatives in partnership with Sales and Revenue Operations leadership




What you will need

  • 7+ years of work experience in Sales Compensation, Sales Strategy, Sales Operations, Strategic Finance, Accounting or another related field and 2+ years in people management experience
  • Experience leading, developing, and building a high performing team
  • Deep understanding of sales compensation, sales strategy & operations, and incentive planning


Additional Information (NOTE: not all of the below may apply to non-US roles)

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.


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