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Senior Business Program Manager - Sales Design & Incentives

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-16 → 2026-07-23

Core

Owns the end-to-end operating rhythm for Revenue Based Incentives (RBI) Plans and Incentive Programs, including intake, classification, routing, tracking, and closure of deal-based exceptions.

Role type

Senior Business Program Manager - Sales Design & Incentives

Builds

End-to-end operating rhythm for incentive programs and exception management workflows

Domain

Technology industry, Sales Strategy, Incentive Compensation

Deliverable

Dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Incentive compensation process management, Quota setting, Territory planning, Segmentation, Account alignment, Project or program leadership, Exception workflow governance, Stakeholder influence, Ambiguity navigation, Data analysis

Preferred skills

Experience in large or highly matrixed organizations

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Orchestrate rhythm and reporting for RBI Plans and Incentive Programs, Govern the SDI Exception Workflow, Activate the Deal-Based Escalation Committee (DBEC) for material cases, Communicate incentive plan changes to organizational levels

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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## About the role - Deal-based exception management process owner - General orchestration, rhythm & reporting - Owns the end-to-end operating rhythm across both Revenue Based Incentives (RBI) Plans and Incentive Programs: intake, classification, routing, tracking, and closure. - Govern the SDI Exception Workflow — ensure cases are logged for review against the entry criteria - Decides when to activate the Deal-Based Escalation Committee (DBEC) as the Exception Review Board, set its cadence (rising into year-end), and bring only material/precedent-setting cases to SDI Leadership Team (LT). ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Economics, or related field AND 7+ years' experience in compensation, business management and operations, finance and analytics, human resources and people analytics, marketing, or sales strategy OR equivalent experience - Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree or Master's Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field. - 5+ years of experience working in a large or highly matrixed organization, preferably in the technology industry. - Prior experience with incentive compensation processes, including quota setting and related upstream inputs such as territory planning, segmentation, and account alignment. - 3+ years of project or program leadership/management experience - Executive presence with experience influencing and partnering with stakeholders across the business. - Proven success navigating ambiguity, ramping quickly on new processes and business data, and resolving unstructured problems. - Experience communicating incentive compensation updates and plan changes clearly to drive understanding and action at all organizational levels. - Maintain effectiveness while managing shifting priorities and multiple concurrent deadlines.
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