Incentive Compensation Systems Manager

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About the role

  • Incentive compensation systems manager automating commissions, quotas, and payouts. Improving Xactly workflows and data systems for Grafana Labs’ open observability cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Map current-state workflows across plan administration, calculation, approvals, and payout
  • Identify and prioritize manual, repetitive, or error-prone process steps
  • Design and build automated workflows, integrations, and tooling
  • Replace ad-hoc spreadsheets and one-off scripts with durable, repeatable systems
  • Own and configure Xactly ICM instances, including Incent and Connect
  • Configure calculation rules, plan logic, and workflows
  • Identify and productionize AI- and LLM-driven automation for exception detection, data reconciliation, plan document review, and common compensation questions
  • Ensure clean, reliable incentive compensation data flows across CRM, People systems, calculation engines, payout, and reporting systems
  • Establish documentation, standard operating procedures, and controls
  • Set up a continuous improvement process for identifying and retiring manual work
  • Translate incentive compensation process needs into system requirements and system constraints into process recommendations
  • Support urgent ad-hoc requests during payout cycles while systematizing long-term fixes
  • Report to the Senior Manager, Incentive Compensation
  • Partner with Incentive Compensation Operations, Finance & Strategy, People Ops, Revenue Operations, and IT/Data teams

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in incentive compensation, sales operations, revenue operations, or a related systems/process improvement role
  • Experience in a fast-paced technology or SaaS business highly preferred
  • Demonstrated track record of finding manual, broken, or inefficient processes and systematizing solutions
  • Hands-on SQL experience
  • Experience querying and reconciling data across systems
  • Hands-on experience building automated workflows using scripting, workflow/RPA platforms, or ICM systems such as Xactly, CaptivateIQ, Varicent, or SPIFF platforms
  • Comfort standing up lightweight tools or integrations
  • Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce, HRIS, data warehouses such as BigQuery, and compensation management platforms such as Xactly
  • Strong communication skills and ability to translate workflows into systems requirements and process changes
  • Understanding of quotas, accelerators, SPIFFs, and payout timing
  • Experience in high-growth SaaS, cloud, or open-source companies is a bonus
  • Experience in public companies or IPO-readiness environments is a bonus
  • Proven success working in globally distributed, remote-first organizations is a bonus
  • Experience with MCP server ingestion or AI skills/agents for incentive compensation automation is a bonus

Benefits

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 100% remote work
  • Career growth pathways
  • In-person onboarding
  • 30 days annual leave per annum
  • 3 Grafana Shutdown Days included within annual leave entitlement
  • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
  • Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things
  • High-trust, low-ego culture
  • Approachable, transparent leadership
  • Global, collaborative culture
  • Equal opportunity employment

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$145,000 - CA$175,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

BigQueryCloudRPASQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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