Senior Sales Compensation Analyst, Confluent
$128.7-151.2k
+ Annual Bonus + Competitive Equity Package
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128.7-151.2k
+ Annual Bonus + Competitive Equity Package
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years of sales compensation experience, ideally in a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company
- Administrator-level experience with incentive compensation software (e.g. Xactly (highly preferred) Incent)
- Analytical, organizational and project management skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate well with employees at all levels of the organization
- Positive work style, focus on getting things done and a strong desire to learn and grow
- Strong attention to detail
What the job involves
- The Confluent Variable Sales Compensation team is chartered with building and managing the systems, processes and tools that will keep our sales team achieving great results as we scale through hyper-growth
- The team works closely together to solve problems and come up with solutions
- The analyst joining this team will have access to dozens of years of combined Sales Compensation knowledge as well as exposure to multiple organizations within the company, such as Finance, FP&A, Sales Field, Go-To-Market, and upper management on both Sales Operations and Sales
- Confluent is looking for someone to administer and support a world-class compensation process, starting with compensation planning, system requirement documentation and configuration, quota allocation, the creation of individual sales plans, calculation of achievement, and timely, accurate, high-value reporting for the business and plan participants
- The applicant must take pride in their work, be a self starter, enjoy identifying and solving problems, improving processes, and completing tasks effectively and efficiently
- Utilizing all resources available to them independently and from their available peers at the company
- Analyze and help structure efficient and effective compensation programs for the company’s global sales organization
- Write advanced requirements documentation for system configuration and perform comprehensive UAT
- Execute the process to create/change, publish, and obtain signatures for individual compensation plan documents
- Perform day-to-day administration of the commission calculations and provide timely resolution of inquiries from comp plan participants
- Support the financial accrual and payment process for monthly commissions under strict deadlines
- Analyze and make recommendations to resolve compensation-related issues such as costing, plan inquiries, validations, and monthly audits
- Develop and track metrics to assess the effectiveness of the sales incentive compensation program
- Work cross functionally with partners in Sales Ops, Finance, HR, and other teams to ensure accuracy of data, inputs and calculations
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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