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Position Overview
Do you have experience supporting sales teams with go-to-market programs to grow the business? If yes, read on! You may be a great match for our Sales Planning & Incentives Manager in GTM Strategy and Operations at Autodesk. In this role, you will act as a strategic partner, collaborating cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, Finance, and Product teams to support go-to-market planning and sales incentive programs. This position reports to the Director of GTM Performance Management at Autodesk.
Responsibilities:
Play a key role in sales coverage and incentive planning by engaging with sales leadership to execute on sales strategy
Wake up every day thinking about how to help sellers and sales teams be more effective
Keep up with and leverage industry best practices around sales planning
Partner with sales operations and executive stakeholders to define program vision, roadmap, and business outcomes
Manage end-to-end planning process for portfolio and territory planning and sales assignments
Ensure key milestones, risks, and dependencies are clearly tracked and proactively managed
Align with cross-functional Program Managers to ensure coordinated delivery
Enable executive decision making by highlighting trade-offs and prioritizing sales effectiveness and company/sales strategy
Summarize program status through clear, executive-level presentations and communications
Help drive sales compensation design process for all roles globally
Drive connected planning with quota setting teams to ensure quotas align with comp rules
Provide key input into the sales facing performance tools and reporting including Peer Performance Groups, Sales Management reporting and individual commission statement
Partner with the commission team and technology teams in the development of the long-term commission system strategy to ensure accurate and timely payments and best-in-class business processes
Lead change management efforts by identifying key stakeholders, change mgmt. and enablement partners, and ensuring appropriate engagement and follow-up post launch
Build and deploy enablement strategies (communication and training plans) to ensure sales teams can effectively use tools, programs, and policies
Deliver training and guidance to sales managers on processes, timelines, and tools to drive successful rollout and adoption
Support sales managers during portfolio and territory reviews by addressing questions, resolving issues, and removing blockers
Minimum Qualifications
Must have 10+ years of sales incentive and/or sales planning experience, including sales commission, sales compensation, revenue operations or sales finance
Bachelor's Degree required, MBA desirable
Experience presenting to and influencing executives and/or sales leaders around sales planning
Experience managing timelines and cross functional projects.
Experience analyzing business issues, prioritizing maximum impact against business goals
Strong verbal and written communication, facilitation and presentation skills
Experience being a "connector" across teams and driving cross functional collaboration
General knowledge and appreciation of sales roles and the sales processes
Must have experience with Anaplan, Salesforce.com, Lightning Salesforce Reporting, Excel, and AI tools
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About Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
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Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of sales incentive and/or sales planning experience (sales commission, sales compensation, revenue operations or sales finance)
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA
- Experience presenting to and influencing executives and/or sales leaders around sales planning
- Experience managing timelines and cross-functional projects
- Experience analyzing business issues and prioritizing work for maximum impact against business goals
- Strong verbal and written communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
- Experience driving cross-functional collaboration and acting as a connector across teams
- Experience with Anaplan, Salesforce.com, Lightning Salesforce Reporting, Excel, and AI tools
Autodesk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Autodesk and has not been reviewed or approved by Autodesk.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is considered expansive, combining discretionary time off for salaried roles, company holidays/Autodays, and a periodic paid sabbatical. These options provide flexibility beyond standard accrual-based PTO.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total rewards prominently include RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a discount and lookback, alongside annual bonus or commission programs. These elements are available to eligible employees and can materially augment base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support includes reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, IVF/co‑maternity, and fertility benefits, plus dedicated coaching and Cleo resources for parenting and caregiving. These services extend support before, during, and after leave.
Autodesk Insights
What We Do
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
Why Work With Us
Our work is impactful. Our people are innovative. And our culture is inclusive. As our software shapes new solutions to the world’s biggest challenges, you shape your career path. With us, you lead the way in achieving sustainability, resilient communities, and an equitable workforce. Discover #AutodeskLife.
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