Sr. Compensation Manager GTMActive$218K

The opportunity

Databricks is seeking a strategic and experienced compensation lead to serve as a trusted partner to founders and senior leadership in our GTM (Go To Market) org. This role will support long-term business objectives by working within the overall Compensation philosophy to…

What you'll do

  • Compensation solutioning for GTM talent (40%)

  • Managing Compensation processes through the employee life cycle (30%)

  • Contributing to building and delivering enterprise-wide compensation programs/ frameworks (30%)

  • Know your craft: Job architecture, comp frameworks, market pricing, year-end and midyear pay cycles, global compensation practices, pay for performance design

  • Know your data: Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear outputs and recommendations. Analyze competitive trends in cash, equity, and total rewards to inform decision-making and tradeoffs. Advanced capabilities required in gSheets, excel. We’ll love it if you know tableau, SQL, python or have used AI for comp analytics

  • Know the competition: Deep expertise in tech compensation practices, especially around new-hire and refresh equity strategies in the tech sector

What they're looking for

  • Be rational: Ability to balance comp knowledge with business solutioning from a first principles viewpoint
  • Build innovatively & scale effectively: create innovative frameworks/solutions to not just solve today’s issues but also to think ahead and anticipate future needs
  • Operational capability: connect the dots between systems, players, and programs to seamlessly deliver compensation programs/ products
  • Savvy collaborator: partner closely with founders and executive leadership to pre-empt, understand and solve business needs; navigate competing priorities and opinions to drive the best outcomes