Solution Design Manager

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The Solution Design Manager is a high impact position within Payscales Revenue Organization. In this role you’ll work closely with our Sales teams to bring in new clients, expand relationships with existing clients, and work closely with services and support teams to ensure these new partnerships are successful. The Solution Design Manager plays a critical role in our sales and expansion discussions by designing effective solutions to achieve client goals. This position reports into the VP, Revenue Optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Directly support Account Executives in solution definition and commercial options for RFP and direct to prospect/customer sales pursuits

o Conduct interviews with various stakeholders inside prospects and clients, including senior executives and operational leaders spanning several functions – HR, IT, procurement, finance, etc.

• Drive the development of an internal solution, winning commercial model, and solid internal and external business case
  • Work collaboratively with internal groups – sales, services, finance, and product/engineering to define the appropriate solution to help the client or prospect achieve its goals
  • Develop a winning commercial model that effectively meets internal requirements and is structured to fit within client and prospect business needs
• Work cross-functionally within Payscale to ensure new engagements are set up for success in the sales cycle
  • Ensure solution consistency from sales pursuit to delivery: taking ownership business requirements and commitments made in the sales cycle and ensuring commitments made are reasonable and achievable
  • Work collaboratively within Sales, Services, and IT organizations during sales pursuit to rationalize and confirm assumptions regarding the proposed solution and its deployment
  • Effectively transfer knowledge and client relationships to implementation and services teams to ensure a consistent customer experience

Education:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills/Experience:

• 6 years of experience conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses of business issues, either in a consulting, sales or industry environment
• Demonstrated ability to discuss business issues with and present findings to senior executives both internally and externally
• Very strong intrinsic problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to complete complex data analyses in Excel
• Very strong communication and teamwork skills
• Attention to detail, thoroughness and high level of accountability
• Applicant must be self-starter who sets priorities and drives deliverables to execution with minimal supervision and team players who are resourceful
• Prior experience working on or with a sales team is valuable for this role

In the spirit of pay transparency, we’re excited to share the target annual salary for this position is $160.3K Base 16.0K variable company performance bonus. If you’re hired at Payscale, your final compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).

Benefits and Perks – The Highlights:

All around awesome culture where together we strive to:

• Pursue excellence every day
• Create customer value
• Compete to win (and lose!) as a team

As part of our culture of transparency and commitment to employee engagement, we have several programs and resources such as:

• Regular virtual company meetings
• Coffee chats
• Table for 4 Executive conversation
• Spirit Week
• Pulsing tools for continuous conversations to drive performance and career growth
• Strengths based tools designed to help employees engage with peers and managers, supported through a program called StandOut
• Access to top notch learning courses for all employees through LinkedIn Learning
• As well as constant re-evaluation of what our employees need to be successful at work!

Our more standard benefits include:

• Discretionary Paid Time Off – Giving employees the flexibility they need to rest, relax and recharge away from work
• 15 paid holidays including Independence Week, Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day
• 3 comprehensive health plans to fit your unique needs; plans have up to 100% company-paid premium coverage for employee Medical, Dental and Vision
• Access to Premera’s Healthcare Services including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 24-hour Nurse Hotline, Telehealth (Doctor on Demand), Talkspace, and other virtual care options
• FSA and HSA options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
• Company Paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive Paid Parental / Adoption Leave program
• 401k program with fully vested, immediate company match

Additional highlights:

• Voted Seattle’s and Boston’s best places to work according to Built In 2022.
• Voted one of Seattle’s companies with the best benefits according to Built In 2022.

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