About Performio:
Performio is the last ICM software you’ll ever need. It allows you to manage incentive compensation complexity and change over the long run by combining a structured plan builder and flexible data management, with a partner who will make you a customer for life.
Our people are highly-motivated and engaged professionals with a clear set of values and behaviors. We prove these values matter to us by living them each day. This makes Performio both a great place to work and a great company to do business with.
But a great team alone is not sufficient to win. We have solved the fundamental issue widespread in our industry—overly-rigid applications that cannot adapt to your needs, or overly-flexible ones that become impossible to maintain over time. Only Performio allows you to manage incentive compensation complexity and change over the long run by combining a structured plan builder and flexible data management. The component-based plan builder makes it easier to understand, change, and self-manage than traditional formula or rules-based solutions. Our ability to Import data from any source, in any format, and perform in-app data transformations, eliminate the pain of external processing and provides end-to-end data visibility. The combination of these two functions, allows us to deliver more powerful reporting and insights. And while every vendor says they are a partner, we truly are one. We not only get your implementation right the first time, we enable you and give you the autonomy and control to make changes year after year. And unlike most, we support every part of your unique configuration. Performio is a partner that will make you a customer for life.
We have a global customer base across Australia, Asia, Europe, and the US in 25+ industries that includes many well-known companies like Toll Brothers, Abbott Labs, News Corp, Johnson & Johnson, Nikon, and Uber Freight.
The Opportunity:
Working within the Professional Services team as an Implementation Senior Consultant you will be responsible for ensuring our customers are implemented efficiently and effectively. You will partner with our customers to take them on a journey from understanding their incentive compensation needs, through design and building within the product, testing and training, to the customer using Performio to pay their commissions.
You will be able to work independently as well as part of project teams to create and implement solutions for existing and new customers alike.
What you’ll be doing:
- Effectively organize, lead and facilitate discussions with customers and internal stakeholders
- Elicit detailed requirements from customers around their sales comp plans, data, and processes
- Deliver thorough, well-documented, detailed system design that ties back to customer specific requirements
- Implement system designs in our SaaS ICM Software product: Setup data intake from the customer, buildout the compensation plans in the software tool, and configure reporting and analytics according to customer requirements gleaned in the discovery process
- Conduct thorough functional testing to ensure a high-quality solution is delivered to customers
- Evaluate discrepancies in data and accurately identify root causes for any errors
- Provide support for Customer Testing activities
- Train and support customer admins on the Performio product and the customer’s specific implementation
- Be actively involved and support customers through the system go-live process
- Support existing customers by investigating and resolving issues
- Provide detailed and accurate estimates for potential customer projects
- Participate in activities, and provide feedback on internal processes and the standard solution
- Participate in activities, and provide customer focused feedback on improving and stabilizing the product
- Track work on projects using our PS automation software
What we’re looking for:
- Willing to take on ambiguous & complex challenges and solve them
- Loves and is good at multi-tasking and juggling multiple workstreams
- Effective and confident in communication - we can put them in front of senior employees at our Customers
- Highly detail oriented - takes great notes, can document complex solutions in detail
- Some understanding of accounting, finance, and/or sales comp concepts
- Proficient in working with large datasets (Excel, SQL, or other types of tools/languages)
- Proficient in database concepts and understands SQL tuning
- Positive Attitude - optimistic, cares deeply about company and customers
- High Emotional IQ - shows empathy, listens when appropriate, creates healthy conversation dynamic
- Humble / no ego
- Resourceful - has a "I'll figure it out" attitude if something they need doesn't exist
- Smart and curious to learn
What You Will Receive:
Performio offers competitive salaries and a generous benefits package. You will receive an annual salary that is between the middle and high end of the market depending on your experience. You will also receive the following company benefits:
- Equity plan – all employees are also owners
- Flexible paid vacation & paid company holidays
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Company-sponsored 401(k) program, company contributes 3% of your salary annually regardless of what you put in
- Laptop, mouse, keyboard, and monitor
Why us?
We’re fast-growing, but still at a size where everyone can make a big impact (and have face time with the CEO). We genuinely care for our customers and we are passionate about solving our customers’ sales compensation challenges. Led by a strong set of company values, we play to win and are incentivized to succeed through our employee equity plan.
We’ve adapted well to the work from home lifestyle, and encourage flexible working arrangements. Some of our staff work full time from home, while others prefer working from one of our offices, or a combination of home and office.
Our values speak strongly to who we really are. They mean a lot to us, and we use them every day to make decisions, and of course to hire great people!
- Play to win - we focus on results, have a bias to action and finish what we start
- Paint a clear picture - we’re clear, concise and communicate appropriately
- Be curious - we surface alternative solutions and consistently expand our knowledge
- Work as one - we all pitch in but also hold each other to account
- Do the right thing - we put what’s right for our customers over our own ego
Don’t check every box in our job description? That’s ok! As the Harvard Business Review points out, research conducted by Hewlett Packard shows that men typically apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and those from marginalized groups tend to only apply when they feel they meet 100%. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet all of the requirements listed in the job description, please still reach out. We’d love to have a conversation to see if you could be a great fit!
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