The Senior Manager, Sales Compensation Strategy owns the design, modeling, and execution of WatchGuard's global sales compensation programs and serves as a strategic partner across the go-to-market organization. Reporting to the VP of Business Operations, this role sits at the intersection of Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Revenue Operations, ensuring our incentive plans are aligned with company strategy, financially sound, and built to scale. This is a high-visibility individual contributor role supporting a global commission population of 200+ team members, with the potential to build out a team over time. A key early focus will be modernizing how we measure and reward performance, including leading the transition from a TCV-based to an ARR-based compensation framework.
No two days look quite the same in this role. One morning you might be deep in a model evaluating the cost and behavioral impact of moving a compensation plan from TCV to ARR; by the afternoon, you're partnering with Sales leadership and FP&A on quota setting for the upcoming Annual Operating Plan. You field a question from Revenue Operations about how a new route to market should be incentivized, refine a Power BI dashboard so leadership can see attainment at a glance, and flag a process gap in how commission agreements are administered. You move fluidly between strategic, big-picture modeling and the detailed, hands-on work that keeps commissioned team members paid accurately and on time. Throughout, you act as the connective tissue between Operations, Finance, and the field, translating company strategy into compensation that drives the right outcomes.
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Watchguard provides enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions including firewalls, threat detection, and network security tools designed to be accessible and manageable for organizations of all sizes.
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