Sr. Sales Compensation Designer, Global Sales Compensation Design

As an AWS Sr. Sales Compensation Designer, you contribute to shaping the landscape of our sales compensation structures. This position will support design and modeling of sales compensation plans to achieve business performance, identify new revenue streams and incentivize sales behaviors towards sales objectives.

In this role, you collaborate closely with sales leadership, finance, and HR teams to craft and refine compensation strategies aligned with our business goals and sales strategy. Your expertise will provide data-driven recommendations for plan improvements, comprehensive analysis, and external market insights.

This role balances a blend of analytical prowess, strategic thinking, and deep understanding of sales behaviors. It offers a unique opportunity to influence AWS sales strategy.

Key job responsibilities
- Designs sales compensation plans and structures that align with business strategies and drive desired sales behaviors

- Develops and models scenario analyses to evaluate potential plan impacts, outcomes, and cost projections, including SPIF considerations for a business or a region

- Assesses plan performance and recommends sales compensation plan design ideas, including quota-setting methodologies

- Translates and tests business requirements for sales teams into effective compensation mechanics, sales eligibility criteria, and quota allocation

- Prepares and presents sales compensation design recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership

- Consults legal and finance teams to ensure plan designs and policies meet compliance requirements

- Tracks annual sales compensation plan design reviews the timeline ensuring timely decisions are reached

- Documents and reviews sales compensation plan designs, mechanics, eligibility rules, and policies; support communication materials for rollout

- Creates “train the trainer” playbook and delivers training programs for sales teams and managers on compensation plans and policies

- Support implementation teams with technical plan requirements and partners with sales operations teams to ensure successful plan implementation, including SPIF programs

About the team
The Global Sales Compensation (GSC) team forms part of the Sales Marketing & Global Services org. As Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to grow, the Sales Compensation Design Team within GSC plays an important role in scaling revenue, processes and enabling strategy through sales compensation incentive design in support of thousands of sellers across numerous industries, geographies, and product lines.

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AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.- Bachelor's Degree in in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or related field
- 7+ years of sales compensation design
- 7+ years of financial and scenario modeling, statistical analysis, plan design tools, and incorporating sales compensation principles and best practices into plan design- Experience in the technology industry and familiarity with technical sales jobs
- Extensive writing experience to lead senior leadership decisions
- Experience working in large or highly matrixed organization, preferably in the technology industry.
- Experience using Sales Performance Management tools e.g., Salesforce (or other CRM tools).

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.