Compensation Manager: Sales & Field Ops (Hybrid, 4 Days)

Metropolis; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Stock options

Bonus plans

Job summary

Metropolis is seeking a Compensation Manager to partner with Field Ops HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and leadership to manage high-volume hourly pay structures, location-tiered grids, and multi-state compliance. This hybrid role also leads policy, plan administration, and annual incentive rollout.

You'll design, audit, and maintain compensation programs, provide executive reporting, and collaborate with RevOps, Finance, and HR Operations to keep our total compensation competitive and compliant.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of compensation experience.
• Experience designing and administering sales compensation plans.
• Experience managing multi-state wage compliance.
• Advanced data modeling in Excel/Google Sheets.
• Workday compensation configuration experience.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Act as Compensation partner for Field Ops HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and operational leadership to evaluate market pay dynamics, high-volume hiring rates, wage grids, and frontline retention levers.
• Design, maintain, and audit hourly pay structures and location-tiered wage grids; lead periodic hourly range refreshes, compression analyses, and the annual field review cycle.
• Maintain real-time tracking of federal, state, county, and municipal minimum wage shifts and living wage ordinances to ensure 100% compliance across all operating jurisdictions.
• Draft and maintain formal Sales Incentive Plan documents, SPIFF templates, terms & conditions, and governance policies in partnership with RevOps and Finance, serving as the final escalation authority for rep crediting disputes and policy exceptions.
• Lead the annual rollout of sales compensation plans, rep plan acknowledgments, quota attainment auditing, and sales manager education on plan mechanics.
• Track quota attainment distributions, pay-for-performance correlation, and payout ROI alongside RevOps data feeds to deliver performance insights to executive leadership.
• Design and execute ad hoc compensation analyses, pay equity reviews, and executive reporting directly from core HRIS/SPM databases.
• Partner with HR Operations to structure, configure, and maintain compensation data and structures within the HCM platform and in external databases (Excel, Google Sheets) as needed.
• Provide operational backup for equity administration (grant processing, vesting tracking) during peak cycles in collaboration with the Corporate & Equity Compensation Manager.

Skills

Sales compensation

Data modeling

HRIS reporting

AI tooling

Education

Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)

Certified Sales Compensation Professional (CSCP)

Tools

Workday

Job description

Metropolis is seeking a Compensation Manager to partner with Field Ops HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and leadership to manage high-volume hourly pay structures, location-tiered grids, and multi-state compliance. This hybrid role also leads policy, plan administration, and annual incentive rollout.

You'll design, audit, and maintain compensation programs, provide executive reporting, and collaborate with RevOps, Finance, and HR Operations to keep our total compensation competitive and compliant.