Sr Business Solutions Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis of advanced sales compensation systems that support complex and dynamic sales strategies and provide solutions.
• Participate in defining vision and strategic direction for sales compensation systems, ensuring alignment with the company’s overarching goals.
• Employ a first principles methodology to identify and address fundamental challenges in sales compensation, driving innovation from the ground up.
• Participate and contribute to strategic discussions with Sales Operations and Compensation Operations leaders to ensure our compensation systems enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Lead fiscal year transitions with precision, ensuring that changes in compensation structures are seamlessly implemented and well-communicated.
• Help in architecting a comprehensive GTM data strategy for the commissions ecosystem, ensuring high-fidelity datasets that enable automated anomaly detection, predictive payout forecasting, and AI-driven sales performance insights.
• Drive a culture of 'hands-on' validation by translating complex compensation concepts into functional prototypes, allowing for the simulation of fiscal year transitions and plan changes before full-scale engineering commitment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience
• Strong understanding of sales compensation plans, systems, and territory planning
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and implement solutions based on a first principles approach
• Proven work experience with large-scale projects and transitions in dynamic environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across departments and influence stakeholders
• Experience using AI-driven coding tools or low-code environments to explore data structures and automate repetitive sales-ops workflows
• Ability to 'see' the logic flow of a commission system and use generative tools to manifest that logic into testable models

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master's degree in a technical or business-related field
• Experience with compensation applications, such as SAP Commissions, Anaplan, and Salesforce (SFDC)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Proven track record of using LLMs or agentic workflows to accelerate product discovery, data cleaning, or complex formula generation

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found (opens in new window).

Pay

$126,000.00 - $205,500.00/yr

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

A description of our employee benefits may be found (opens in new window).

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is Role Eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?

No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.