Incentive Compensation Architect

Betterment Campus Recruiting; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all employees

Four-week sabbatical

Professional coaching

Day-one 401(k) match

Job summary

Betterment is seeking an Incentive Compensation Manager to operate the go-to-market pay engine. You will own monthly commission processes, validate data, and coordinate with Revenue Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, and HR to design and implement compensation plans.

The role emphasizes automation, scalability, and accuracy, reporting to our Revenue Operations team. The role requires five+ years in incentive compensation or related ops, hands-on experience with ICM platforms, and strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Incentive Compensation or related operations.
• Experience running a monthly incentive cycle end to end with high accuracy and on-time payout.
• Hands-on experience with ICM platforms such as Qobra, Spiff, CaptivateIQ, QuotaPath, or similar.
• A systems mindset with a passion for process automation and scalable workflows.
• Experience working with Salesforce and partnering with technical teams to troubleshoot data issues.

Responsibilities

• Run the end-to-end monthly incentive compensation cycle, including data validation, calculations, reconciliation, stakeholder review, issue resolution, and payroll coordination.
• Administer and improve our incentive compensation management platform, including plan configuration and data integrations for self-service visibility.
• Build and maintain documentation, controls, and procedures to make processes repeatable and auditable.
• Automate manual steps to increase speed and accuracy of compensation administration.
• Produce recurring commission reporting, SPIF tracking, and partner payout reporting for Sales and Finance.
• Collaborate with Revenue Operations, Sales, Finance, HR, Payroll, and Business Systems to operationalize plans and troubleshoot issues.
• Model proposed changes, document plan rules, and translate into calculation logic and system configuration.
• Address compensation questions from the field with clear explanations for reps and managers.

Skills

Incentive Compensation

Sales Operations

Revenue Operations

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Qobra

Spiff

CaptivateIQ

QuotaPath

Job description

Betterment is seeking an Incentive Compensation Manager to operate the go-to-market pay engine. You will own monthly commission processes, validate data, and coordinate with Revenue Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, and HR to design and implement compensation plans.

The role emphasizes automation, scalability, and accuracy, reporting to our Revenue Operations team. The role requires five+ years in incentive compensation or related ops, hands-on experience with ICM platforms, and strong