Head of GTM Incentive Strategy
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. Were scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious the bar is high and the opportunity for growth personal professional and financial is unmatched.
Our team moves fast takes ownership and is deeply committed to the mission operating with intensity staying close to our customers and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness Simplicity and Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
We are hiring a hands-on leader to own how Harvey designs its GTM incentive strategy for its go-to-market organization. As Head of GTM Incentive Strategy you will design the incentive architecture that turns our revenue strategy into the plans quotas and payouts that motivate and reward our sellers. This is a design-first high-ownership role: you will set the compensation philosophy build the plans and put the modeling and governance in place to keep them fair motivating and defensible as we scale.
Own the end to end design of GTM incentive compensation across both pre- and post-sales organizations including quota carrying AEs sales leadership solutions and overlay teams customer success etc.
Build the models that forecast plan cost incentive ROI and attainment distribution; run scenario analysis to stress-test designs before they ship and diagnose plans already in market
Partner with Compensation Business Partner to align OTE pay mix and leverage to market benchmarks and internal equity and to keep plan spend inside budget
Set and communicate the compensation philosophy: produce executive-ready narratives on plan performance and risk and educate GTM leaders and sellers so plans drive the behavior they are designed to reward
Architect plan mechanics that scale with hypergrowth including quota structures accelerators multipliers and SPIFFs
Translate GTM strategy changes - new segments product and pricing launches territory and coverage-model shifts - into comp plan updates delivered with speed and accuracy
Partner with compensation admin team on the ICM platform quota-to-payout reconciliation payout automation and real-time earnings visibility for sellers and managers
Establish the governance layer - plan documentation cross-functional approval workflows version control and audit-ready practices - and lead dispute resolution with clear SLAs and consistent outcomes
Partner with Finance on how goals translate to outcomes and the subsequent incentive strategy
10 years in sales/incentive compensation design revenue operations or a closely related field with demonstrated experience owning plan design at scale in a B2B SaaS environment
Deep hands-on expertise designing incentive structures sales organizations - accelerators SPIFFs overlays and co-sell frameworks
Strong analytical and modeling skills with the ability to structure ambiguous questions work with incomplete data and quantify the cost and ROI of design decisions
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across Sales Finance People and Legal through clear communication strong judgment and data-backed recommendations
Comfort operating autonomously as a leader and function owner - setting direction and building the function directly with or without a team beneath you
Bonus: experience in high-growth or hypergrowth organizations with consumption- or usage-based pricing dynamics or in AI / legal technology
$212000 - $300000 USD
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Director
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.