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# Sales Enablement Lead at Compa

- **Company:** Compa
- **Location:** Irvine, CA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/compa/ce55b9d0-b719-440e-a2c9-3f227ff131cb

## Job description

## About Compa

Compa is a venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing the future of compensation! We're bringing AI-forward tools and human-centered engineering to make pay competitive and fair, for all. By offering a premier, live compensation data platform that delivers top-tier intelligence to enterprise teams, we enable the world's largest companies to make smart and fair decisions while staying competitive and compliant. In dynamic job markets during the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay competitive! Our force-multiplying team is powered by live data and thoughtful design, and our products have earned the trust of the world’s largest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, OpenAI, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more. Come build with us!

## The Role

As Enablement Lead, you will build the training program that turns every new and tenured seller into a world-class one: faster ramp, stronger skills, and a shared way of selling. You will own onboarding, ongoing development, and certification, and build the manager capability that makes it stick. You will partner with sales leaders on a training roadmap for a fast-growing, AI-first go-to-market, and keep raising the bar on what good looks like. Our product is increasingly AI-driven, including our AI agents layer, so this role is central to making sure every seller can explain that value with fluency and conviction as new capabilities ship. Success shows up in ramp time, win rate, pipeline quality, and forecast accuracy.

## What You’ll Do

Onboarding and new-hire ramp

- Own the onboarding plan from day one through full quota, with clear milestones and certification before a rep carries a full number.
- Design curriculum that covers market, competition, company, product, value proposition, sales process, methodology, tools, and skills.
- Deliver through formats that work: online, classroom, peer group, flipped-classroom, and role-play.
- Help run the annual sales kickoff and mid-year summit as training events, not announcements.

Ongoing skills development and certification

- Build a continuous training calendar for Sales, Customer Success and Insights teams: discovery, business case and ROI, multi-threading, security and procurement, negotiation, and expansion.
- Certify sellers on the skills that matter, using role-plays and call-recording reviews as the assessment, not just course completion.
- Teach account planning for the largest enterprise accounts.
- Use pipeline review themes and call reviews to decide what to teach next.
- Leverage AI to deliver ongoing innovation and efficiencies for the organization.

Manager and leader development

- Teach front-line managers to coach: deal inspection, call review, and feedback using a shared scorecard.
- Certify managers on the methodology first, so they can reinforce what reps learn.
- Turn the forecast and pipeline review cadence into ongoing manager training.

Sales methodology

- Own the sales methodology as the one way the team qualifies, advances, and inspects deals, with a clear "why now" for every opportunity.
- Build the methodology into stage exit criteria instead of running it as a separate system. Gate stage advancement on the smallest set of elements that matter, and score the rest without blocking.
- Create an evidence-based deal scorecard for inspection, coaching, and pipeline rollups.

Pipeline management and forecasting

- Teach the pipeline standards: what counts as real pipeline, stage definitions, aging, and CRM hygiene, in partnership with RevOps.
- Teach managers to forecast from deal evidence instead of rep confidence, with clear category definitions and a roll-up cadence.
- Track forecast accuracy by rep, manager, and segment, and turn the gaps into coaching and training.

AI product fluency

- Build and own the training strategy for our AI-driven roadmap, so sellers clearly and confidently articulate the value of the AI agents layer.
- Keep messaging, positioning, and competitive differentiation in training current with Product Marketing and Product as capabilities ship.
- Champion the use of AI-powered selling tools across the sales org, from call analysis and coaching to prospecting and deal intelligence, and partner with RevOps to ensure they're adopted and delivering measurable results.

Playbooks and in-the-moment support

- Leveraging AI to build playbooks, battlecards, and objection handling that reinforce what is taught, and keep them in the flow of work (CRM, chat, conversation intelligence).
- Keep them current and trusted, so a rep finds the answer in seconds, not in a course.

Measuring what works

- Measure program effectiveness through new-hire ramp, certification results, skill assessments, participant and leader feedback, and retention.

Who you'll work with You report to the Chief Revenue Officer and partner closely with:

- Sales leaders and front-line managers, who reinforce everything you build.
- Revenue operations, on stage definitions, CRM hygiene, and forecast tooling.
- Product marketing, on messaging, battlecards, and launch enablement as new AI capabilities ship.
- Customer success, on handoffs, expansion plays, and renewal playbooks.
- Product, security, and legal, on the technical and compliance answers reps need mid-deal.

## What We’re Looking For

## Minimum

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years designing, developing, and delivering sales training, including leading a team or building the function from scratch.
- Experience running onboarding and certification programs that shortened ramp time.
- Working knowledge of MEDDPICC or a similar methodology, with a record of embedding it in stage criteria and coaching, not just teaching it.

As a Plus

- 5+ years in B2B sales, sales leadership, or sales enablement, including software sales.
- Experience building manager coaching programs and designing forecast and pipeline review processes.
- Experience building AI tools to accelerate AE performance
- Ability to build and facilitate online, classroom, peer group, flipped-classroom, and role-play training.
- Fluency with an LMS, HubSpot or a comparable CRM, and conversation intelligence tools, plus comfort using data to decide what to teach.
- Experience selling or enabling complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals with security and procurement review.
- A strong facilitator and coach who earns credibility with senior reps and front-line managers.
- Clear, concise writing: you can turn a messy deal into a one-page playbook.
- Sound judgment on what belongs in a program versus what belongs in the flow of work.

Compa offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, PTO and parental leave, equity, company offsites, continuous education, commuter benefits and a flexible work environment.

## About Compa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Compa provides an AI-powered enterprise compensation platform that enables companies to make competitive, data-driven pay decisions using live market data and intelligent agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $35M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Irvine, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Charlie Franklin (CEO), Joe Malandruccolo (CTO), Taylor Cone (CXO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Human Resources Technology (Compensation Intelligence)
- Target customers: B2B – Enterprise compensation teams, HR, and Talent Acquisition
- Mission: "Make compensation fair and competitive for all"

## Products & Services
- **[Analyst Agent]**: AI agent that gives compensation teams instant visibility into market trends, enabling analysis and executive-ready answers in minutes (SaaS).
- **[Partner Agent]**: AI agent used by recruiting and HR stakeholders to scale compensation expertise, align offers with strategy, and maintain oversight (SaaS).
- **[Compa Frontline]**: Real-time hourly worker compensation data down to the zip code level (SaaS/data service).
- **[Market Data Platform]**: Live data across offers, employees, stock, skills, and frontline roles built from 9M+ observations in 50+ countries (data subscription).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $52.1M raised (Series B of $35M closed February 2026)
- **Notable Investors**: Jump Capital (lead Series B), Storm Ventures, Penny Jar Capital, Permanent Capital Partners, Crosslink Capital, PagsGroup, HR Tech Investments
- **Growth Signals**: Named a Challenger in Forrester Wave alongside Workday, Microsoft, and Oracle; completed Workday HCM integration; expanded into hourly worker data with Compa Frontline; recognized by PYMNTS and other outlets for Series B.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Live, verified market data** with 9M+ observations across 50+ countries, replacing backward-looking surveys.
- **AI agents** trained on customer strategy, delivering expert-level analysis and scalable decision-making without adding headcount.
- **Enterprise-grade infrastructure**: SOC 2 Type II certified, CCPA and GDPR compliant, integrated with major ATS (Workday, Greenhouse) and stock systems (Carta, E*TRADE).
- **Built-in safeguards** ensuring every AI answer is accurate, cited, and traceable.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate adoption of AI agents across enterprise compensation teams.
- Expand real-time data coverage into new roles and geographies (e.g., frontline hourly workers).
- Deepen integrations with HR ecosystems (Workday, Oracle) to embed Compa into existing workflows.
- Continue to scale without proportionally increasing headcount, leveraging AI to 10x team output.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: 100% of employees say Compa is a great place to work (43% higher than similar startups). Values include “Do What Matters”, “Own the Outcome”, “Paddle Together”, “Empower Others”, “Take Customer Action”.
- **Work Model**: Remote-first with a strong emphasis on in-person connection; headquarters in Irvine, CA with growing offices in Denver, CO and San Francisco, CA.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage; generous vacation plus company-wide holiday closure (Christmas to New Year); stock options; access to WeWork, Headspace, Duolingo; onsite gym at some locations.
- **Engineering Culture**: Collaborative, curious, driven team with no ego; leadership described as respectful and emotionally intelligent; regular retreats and virtual hangouts.

## Sources
1. [compa.ai](https://www.compa.ai/)
2. [compa.ai/about](https://www.compa.ai/about)
3. [compa.ai/careers](https://www.compa.ai/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/compa](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/compa)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/compa)

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