Databricks: Sales Compensation Manager — Bengaluru, India

About Databricks

Databricks develops a platform for data, analytics and AI. Its employer material describes bringing related capabilities together so organisations can build and scale applications, analytics and agents using their information. The advertised platform portfolio includes data-engineering, lakehouse, governance and AI-related products. Its business connects the infrastructure used to manage data with the tools used to derive insights or create applications, rather than treating those activities as entirely separate technology projects.

The position and its setting

Databricks lists Sales Compensation Manager in Bengaluru, India, under reference 8604610002. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Finance
• Employer listing date: 30 June 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Own end-to-end sales compensation administration for a large payee portfolio with full accountability for accuracy, timeliness, SOX compliance, and high-quality execution across participant setup, plan distribution, calculation, payment readiness, and payroll submission
• Leadership: payroll submission for one or more GEOs with 100% accuracy, timeliness, and SOX compliance, including zero-pay confirmations, audit checkpoints, and evidence completeness across controls
• Leadership: large or moderately ambiguous projects independently, balancing multiple priorities, defining clear ownership across contributors, and creating repeatable inspection mechanisms (dashboards, check-ins, trackers) that consistently deliver outcomes on time
• Enable the team through templates, playbooks, evidence packs, and exception trackers, mentoring analysts (including offshore resources) to raise execution quality beyond individual scope

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 10+ years of end-to-end sales compensation administration and commissions system operations, spanning payroll submissions, SOX control operations, exception modelling/recalcs, and stakeholder deliverables
• Advanced proficiency with Xactly (administration, configuration, reporting, troubleshooting) and Excel/Google Workspace for complex modelling, analysis, and insight generation
• Data validation skills across source-of-truth systems (SFDC, HRIS, Anaplan, etc.) with demonstrated ability to detect anomalies, perform complex commission modelling, and translate findings into clear recommendations
• Demonstrated program management experience across payroll and compliance/exception workflows, able to set and run cadences, produce audit evidence packs, define escalation paths, and maintain continuous audit readiness
• Understanding: SaaS go-to-market compensation models, including quotas, OTI, accelerators, overlays, SPIFFs, MBOs, and how plan mechanics influence seller behaviour
• Influence cross-functional partners (Sales Ops, Rev Ops, Payroll, HR, Legal, Accounting, Finance, etc.) by proposing trade-offs, framing risk, and driving shared outcomes without direct authority
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity, scoping complex problems, balancing speed with rigour, and delivering consistent, control-minded execution with minimal oversight
• Comfort prompting and evaluating LLMs as part of daily work, with a practical point of view on where AI creates real leverage in compensation operations versus where human judgment remains essential
• Experience deploying AI or automation solutions, whether through vendor tooling, custom workflows, or agentic systems, to measurably improve speed, accuracy, or coverage
• Partners with internal AI tooling teams to identify and deploy solutions that reduce manual work and scale the function
• The role requires maintaining a consistent 3–4 hour overlap with U.S
• Pacific Time (PST) during your workday

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Bengaluru, India

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees
• For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here

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Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Sales Compensation Manager vacancy is not an offer for reference 8604610002; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

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How to apply to Databricks

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Open the official Databricks posting below and match the title and reference 8604610002.

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Practical preparation: Excel

Excel examples should identify the task, the data and the checks used to avoid an incorrect result. Explain whether you built a reporting workbook, reconciled records, automated a process or maintained an existing model.

Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• LLMs
• Excel
• AI
• embedded systems
• audit
• accounting
• compliance
• sales
• payroll