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# Head of GTM, Sales Planning at CaptivateIQ

- **Company:** CaptivateIQ
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $270k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/captivateiq/82417995-b1c1-44e8-873b-5c2b61083ae5

## Job description

CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures,  we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance.

Join a talented, fast-growing team committed to solving some of the most complex and impactful problems in sales performance management.

## About the Role

This role owns the numbers half of marketing, including demand, ops, field, and BDR, while a separate Head of Corporate Marketing owns brand, product marketing, and narrative. We're deliberately splitting what used to be one CMO seat into two focused leadership roles, each hired for depth rather than breadth. This is a full-ownership role — you’ll define how these products are sold, implemented, and grown, and you’ll work directly with enterprise customers from the earliest stages of evaluation through long-term success. You’ll report to the Co-CEO and partner closely with Product, Engineering, CX, and GTM. This role is balanced equally between pre-sales and post-sales. You’re not just winning deals — you’re owning the full customer lifecycle from close through expansion.

## Responsibilities

- Own the full GTM lifecycle for Sales Planning — from market positioning through customer go-live and expansion. Catalyst will also fall under this role as a smaller, secondary objective
- Define go-to-market strategy, including positioning, packaging, and the use cases that deliver the most value for revenue and finance leaders
- Develop and operationalize the sales and implementation motion, and bring Product, CX, and GTM along on the strategy
- Evaluate the effectiveness of our current Sales Planning GTM motion and be open to evolving the approach — including testing dedicated or overlay selling models — based on market feedback and customer outcomes
- Partner with EPD leadership to influence product decisions that impact GTM success — use case prioritization, positioning, and implementation requirements — while respecting that EPD owns final decisions on product development and platform architecture
- Work closely with Product to translate market feedback into a roadmap that builds toward durable, scalable revenue
- Drive product-market fit validation across the highest-signal use cases by engaging directly with customers and analyzing customer data
- Form and test hypotheses on how to accelerate awareness, conversion, and adoption across the full funnel from lead to renewal
- Serve as the escalation point for customer issues — not to manage every escalation directly, but to identify thematic patterns and drive systematic process fixes
- Partner with cross-functional leaders across Product, Engineering, CX, and GTM to align on strategy, build the enablement needed to sell and support both products at scale, and hold the organization accountable to execution
- Surface customer and market insights to leadership to inform product direction, company strategy, and where we invest next
- Today, Sales Planning GTM resources are allocated across implementation, CX, and GTM functions — you’ll coordinate their work through dotted-line relationships. As the product scales, you’ll build a dedicated team reporting to you

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience in sales performance management, revenue operations, or enterprise SaaS
- Deep expertise in Sales Planning — territory design, quota methodology, capacity modeling. Ideally, you’ve worked at a Sales Planning vendor (Anaplan, Varicent, Xactly) or services firm implementing SPM, or you’ve led a Sales Planning rollout in-house at an enterprise company. A combination of domain expertise and go-live experience is ideal
- Demonstrated experience building or scaling an enterprise SaaS product’s go-to-market and implementation motion
- Strong presence with enterprise buyers — comfortable owning the commercial and technical conversation with senior revenue and finance leaders
- Proven ability to drive alignment across Product, Engineering, CX, and GTM teams without relying on positional authority
- Comfortable operating in a product that is still finding its footing in enterprise — able to make scope calls, set expectations, and move forward without perfect information
- Familiarity with incentive compensation management and how it connects to sales planning is a strong plus
- Experience with partner-led or SI-driven implementation motions is a plus
- Exposure to AI-powered product capabilities or agentic workflows is a plus

## Benefits

- Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
- Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days to ensure you have the space to recharge.
- Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
- Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the CaptivateIQ team that grow as your tenure does.
- Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
- Premium Tools: The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.
- Inclusive Community: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support our DEI goals by fostering an environment where diverse talent thrives.

Notice for Prospective Candidates

- Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.

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- Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.

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## About CaptivateIQ

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CaptivateIQ provides a modern, AI-infused commission management platform that automates incentive compensation, quota planning, and sales performance analytics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; $164.6M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has an office in Salt Lake City, Utah)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Mark Schopmeyer, Conway Teng, Hubert Wong

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Sales Performance Management (Incentive Compensation)
- **Target customers**: B2B; revenue teams including sales operations, finance, and compensation administrators at mid-market and enterprise companies (1,000+ customers worldwide)
- **Mission**: To enable every company to take control of sales performance management, making commission administration transparent, accurate, and motivating for all stakeholders.

## Products & Services
- **Incentive Compensation Management**: Automates commission calculations with a no-code, logic-based engine (SmartGrid ELT). Supports any compensation plan and provides real-time visibility for payees.
- **Sales Capacity and Quota Planning**: Build and manage territories, assign accounts, and optimize opportunities with automated boundary adjustments.
- **Reporting & Analytics**: Real-time dashboards tracking performance trends, top performers, and drivers of results.
- **Predictive Modeling**: ML-powered models to score accounts, predict quota attainment, and identify payout anomalies.
- **Assist AI**: Generative AI assistant that helps troubleshoot formulas, search documentation, and optimize plans via natural language queries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $164.6M in total venture funding (led by ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Sequoia, Sapphire, Workday Ventures, Bessemer, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Accel, ICONIQ Growth, Sapphire, Bessemer, Foundation Capital, Workday Ventures, Y Combinator
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 1,000+ customers globally
  - 94% customer satisfaction (CSAT) from over 2,500 G2 reviews
  - Named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Sales Performance Management Solutions For Incentive Compensation, Q1 2025”
  - Strategic investment from Workday Ventures and partnership with Workday Software Partner Program
  - Recent product launches: SmartGrid ELT, Assist AI, Payee Lifecycle Management, Custom Workflow Builder

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-infused platform** that integrates compensation, planning, and predictive modeling in a single system – unlike legacy tools that require services or IT.
- **No-code calculation engine (SmartGrid ELT)** enables commission plan creation and iteration without developer or consultant support.
- **Single source of truth** for incentives and planning data, with real-time synchronization from CRM/ERP systems (Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, Workday).
- **SOC 1 & SOC 2 compliance** ensures enterprise-grade data security.
- **Real-time payee visibility** increases rep trust and motivation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Modernize incentive compensation** by replacing manual spreadsheets and inflexible legacy software with an adaptable, cloud-native platform.
- **Expand AI capabilities** – Assist AI and predictive modeling to further automate plan building, anomaly detection, and forecasting.
- **Deepen ecosystem integrations** (e.g., Workday Ventures partnership) and continue building out planning, capacity management, and reporting modules.
- **Scale global presence** with a distributed remote workforce and a second office in Salt Lake City.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: CaptivateIQ is a 100% remote company with flexible work from anywhere; also maintains physical offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City for in-person events.
- **Competitive compensation** including equity, bonuses, and anniversary bonuses.
- **Comprehensive healthcare**: 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision for employees and 75% for dependents.
- **Time off**: Flexible PTO plus quarterly mental health days.
- **Parental support**: Parental leave and an annual $1,000 caretaker stipend.
- **Professional development**: $500 annual stipend for learning and development.
- **401k retirement plan**.
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)** that support diverse identities and experiences.
- **High ratings**: 94% CSAT on G2 and consistently positive employee reviews on Built In (35+ total employees, 2 offices).
- **Recent engineering focus**: Roles like Software Engineer – AI Platform signal investment in cutting-edge technology.

## Sources
1. [captivateiq.com – About Us](https://www.captivateiq.com/about-us)
2. [captivateiq.com – Careers](https://www.captivateiq.com/careers)
3. [captivateiq.com – Main Site](https://www.captivateiq.com/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/captivateiq](https://jobs.lever.co/captivateiq)
5. [builtin.com – CaptivateIQ Profile](https://builtin.com/company/captivateiq)

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