Senior Director, Global Sales Compensation at Fivetran

<div class="content-intro"><p>From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.</p></div><p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>About Us</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333;">Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.<br><br>As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact. During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333;">We are hiring a Senior Director, Sales Compensation & Strategy to lead our global compensation governance and operations for our GTM motion. This role is for someone who values clear ownership, operational excellence, and long term thinking. You will report to the VP, Finance & Strategy and partner closely with Sales, RevOps, HR, Legal, and Finance. We expect a hands-on leader who is as comfortable driving incentive designs through a data driven approach as they are coaching the team and influencing executive decisions.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Lead the global sales incentive planning and design process, owning frameworks that translate executive strategy into field behavior.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Architect and implement compensation plans for consumption/usage-based pricing models across Enterprise, Commercial, and Channel sales.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Lead the design and integration of sales compensation plans across the Fivetran and dbt GTM motions, harmonizing crediting, quota, and plan mechanics into a unified framework post-merger.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Serve as a strategic advisor to GTM and Finance senior leadership, presenting data-driven tradeoffs and recommendations to the Sales Compensation Committee.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Own the incentive compensation management (ICM) system of record and modernize operations through AI automation, governance, and scalable execution.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Build and lead a high-performing Sales Compensation team, including managers and senior analysts, and own hiring, coaching, and development.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Establish global plan governance, clear plan documents, exception workflows, consistent audit and approval processes, and SOX-ready controls to support IPO readiness and external audits.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333 !important;"><span style="color: #333333;">Design, run, and report plan effectiveness analytics, attribution, and ROI modeling; propose and impleme

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