Senior Compensation Manager, GTM (AI)

Location: United States

Salary: $174,200–$299,550 USD annual base salary, depending on pay zone and location; total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks is a Data and AI company providing a unified platform for data, analytics, AI applications, and agents to more than 20,000 organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Partner with GTM leaders to diagnose talent challenges and design compensation solutions for attraction, retention, scaling, reorganizations, executive hiring, and high-stakes retention situations.
• Convert ambiguous or urgent requests into clear options with explicit tradeoffs and guide senior leaders toward decisions.
• Run merit, refresh equity, and promotion cycles end to end for global GTM teams.
• Design and build AI tools and workflows for offer modeling, retention-risk analysis, cycle quality checks, and self-service leadership insights.
• Scale global compensation structures through market pricing models, pay-for-performance design, equity strategy, and adaptable frameworks.

Requirements

• Expert-level analytical modeling, including cost-of-program scenarios, pay-positioning analysis, attrition and retention-risk modeling, and sensitivity and tradeoff analysis.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools, LLMs, AI assistants, or automation and agent platforms to build compensation tools, models, or workflows, including validating output accuracy.
• Strong understanding of RSUs and options, vesting design, refresh strategy, and the effect of grant values and share-price movement on cost and retention.
• Sound statistical judgment when evaluating market data, sample sizes, ranges, and market pricing.
• Expertise in job architecture, compensation frameworks, market pricing, year-end and mid-year pay cycles, global compensation practices, and pay-for-performance design.
• Deep knowledge of competitor compensation, especially new-hire and refresh equity strategies at high-growth and public technology companies.
• Experience advising executives on sensitive compensation decisions involving offers, promotions, leveling, retention, transfers, and organizational changes.
• Ability to deliver compensation programs end to end, accurately and on time, while connecting systems, stakeholders, and programs.
• Ability to turn complex analysis into clear recommendations that executives can act on.

Nice to have

• Experience with Tableau, other business intelligence tools, or leadership dashboards.
• Experience supporting GTM or sales organizations at a high-growth technology company.
• Experience scaling compensation programs through hypergrowth, an IPO, or major organizational change.
• Background in finance, statistics, engineering, or another quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-moving, deeply technical environment with data-driven leaders and high standards for analytical rigor, judgment, resilience, and collaboration.
• Work involves balancing multiple priorities, navigating ambiguity, incorporating feedback, and building new playbooks where none exist.
• Benefits and perks are offered according to the employee's region.
• Employment includes potential annual performance bonus, equity, and region-specific benefits.
• Databricks is committed to inclusive hiring and equal employment opportunity.