Commissions & Payroll Manager
About this role
At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.
In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.
Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.
Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.
About this opportunity:
We are looking for a Commissions & Payroll Manager to join our Finance team and play a meaningful role in our compensation and payroll strategy to help us attract and retain top talent globally. You’ll be instrumental in helping Podium continue to scale effectively while working closely with the Finance, Sales, Customer Success and People teams.
What you will be doing:
- Own the end-to-end commission strategy and payout processes
- Design and implement commission plans for Sales and Customer Success
- Meet with key Sales and Customer Success stakeholders to gather relevant information pertaining to commission payouts.
- Develop relationships with Sales leadership to represent Finance from a compensation perspective and influence compensation strategy.
- Work with Sales and Customer Success management to refine career progression plans in order to attract and retain top talent.
- Build and evolve our compensation programs and support related communication efforts and materials.
- Partner with Recruiting on new hire compensation best practices.
- Provide subject-matter expertise on topics related to commissions.
- Direct domestic and international payroll operations, ensuring accurate processing of salaries, hourly wages, overtime, commissions, bonuses, and deductions.
- Maintain strict adherence to federal, state, and local payroll laws, FLSA standards, and wage/hour regulations.
- Maintain data integrity by overseeing system updates, configuration changes, and integration between HR, benefits, and accounting systems.
- Identify inefficiencies and implement automated solutions to streamline payroll workflows and reporting.
What you should have:
- 5+ years experience in Compensation, Sales operations, Finance, or Accounting. Preferably in a high growth or SaaS environment.
- BA/BS degree with an emphasis on work of a quantitative nature, or related practical experience.
- Experience working with complex Excel (or GSheet) models
- Experience automating processes and increasing efficiency using AI
- Experience partnering with and presenting insights to senior leaders
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to translate quantitative insights to non-quantitative audiences.
Benefits:
- Open and transparent culture
- Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k Plan
- Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel
- A stellar HQ (Utah) gym with local professional coaches and classes offered
- Onsite HQ (Utah) child care center, subsidized for employees
Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.
Company at a glance
A few years back, Eric (Co-Founder and CEO) got a frustrated call from his dad. His dad’s tire shop had plenty of happy customers, but only a handful of angry ones were leaving reviews. So we built a product that made getting more reviews as easy as sending a text.
Launching in 2014, we set out to solve the same problem for local businesses everywhere, but we realized that messaging with customers wasn’t just the better way to get reviews—it’s the better way to do business. We’ve since built a multi-product platform that’s modernizing the way local business gets done.
We are here to provide local businesses with everything they need to win. Get more reviews, collect payments, send text marketing campaigns, and centralize your communications—all from one easy-to-use platform.
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Top Benefits
- Life insurance
- Long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility benefits
- Generous vacation time
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401k plan
- Gym access
- Onsite child care center
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