
Sales Incentive Strategy and Operations Manager, Apple Ads
Cupertino, CAFull-timeSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Apple Ads seeks a leader to manage, administer, and evolve its sales performance plan. The role owns the design, development, and administration of key sales compensation plan elements, partnering cross-functionally to build a program aligned with business strategies and performance outcomes. The team supports advertising across the App Store, Apple News, and Apple TV.
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Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200694537-0836
Summary
At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people’s lives. Our Apple Ads group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Our technology and services power advertising in the App Store, Apple News, and Apple TV. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. Launched in 2016, Apple Ads is an easy, efficient and fast-growing platform for app discovery. Apple Ads is becoming the app promotion platform of choice for iOS developers. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gravitate in order to do their best work.
If you are excited by the idea of making a real impact, and joining a team where we pride ourselves in being one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world, a career with Apple might be your dream job! Apple is redefining advertising on mobile devices while reaching hundreds of millions of iPhone and iPad users around the world. Through Apple Advertising, advertisers and publishers get access to the most engaged consumers in the market.
Description
We are looking for a hard-working and well-rounded leader to manage, administer and evolve our sales performance plan within our growing advertising business. In this role, you will work within our Apple Ads Sales Operations team to own the design, development and administration of key elements of our sales compensation plan. You will partner cross-functionally to build an effective program that aligns optimally with business strategies and drives desired business performance and outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
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8+ years of experience in Sales Operations, business analysis, or sales incentive plan design, preferably within digital advertising and performance marketing
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Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and influencing other teams in a complex business environment
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Excellent problem-solving and project management skills
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Proven ability to lead change in a complex, global business environment
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Solid understanding of data, reporting, and the systems used to implement operational objectives
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience managing exceptions and payout disputes with senior stakeholders
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Familiarity with compensation plan compliance across multiple countries
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Experience building or improving processes with automation or AI to cut manual work in plan administration
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,894 open Sales Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$142–198K/yr262 salary ranges
- US median$25–30/hr61 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 316 open Sales Operations jobs in California and 1,894 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Sales Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,619 postings).
- Education
- 533 of the 1,894 open Sales Operations jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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