Senior Compensation Manager, GTM

The role

You will act as a strategic compensation leader and partner to GTM founders and senior leadership. You will design compensation solutions, run global lifecycle compensation cycles using AI tools, and help scale enterprise compensation frameworks.

What you will do

• Work with GTM leaders to diagnose talent challenges and design attraction and retention solutions
• Turn vague or urgent requests into clear options with explicit tradeoffs
• Serve as the main compensation advisor on strategic executive hires and high-stakes retention situations
• Run merit, refresh equity and promotion cycles end to end for global GTM teams
• Design and build AI tools and workflows to reduce manual work and improve decisions
• Spot and automate repetitive or error-prone processes
• Help scale global compensation structure including market pricing models, pay-for-performance design and equity strategy
• Build frameworks that solve current and future growth problems

Required qualifications

• Expert-level analytical modeling including cost-of-program, pay-positioning, attrition, and retention-risk modeling
• Personal use of AI tools like LLMs, AI assistants, or automation platforms to build compensation tools or workflows
• Equity fluency including RSU and option mechanics, vesting design, refresh strategy, and grant values
• Statistical judgment regarding market data and sample sizes
• Knowledge of job architecture, compensation frameworks, market pricing, and pay cycles
• Knowledge of competitor compensation and equity strategy at high-growth and public tech companies
• Track record of advising executives on sensitive compensation decisions
• Ability to deliver compensation programs end to end

Nice to have

• Experience with Tableau or other BI tools, or building dashboards for leaders
• Experience supporting GTM or sales organizations at a high-growth tech company
• Experience scaling compensation programs through hypergrowth, IPO, or major organizational change
• A background in a quantitative field (for example finance, statistics, engineering), or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.