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Company brief · updated 2026-10-18

CaptivateIQ

captivateiq.com · B2B

23open roles
4new in 30 days
3closed in 30 days
20remote-eligible
slowinghiring velocity

What they're building

Sales planning beyond incentive compensation management moderate signal

Today: Quota and capacity planning alongside incentive compensation (site: 'Balance workloads and ramp times while ensuring quotas are both achievable'; 'From setting objectives to calculating payouts')

Roles: Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack - Sales Planning · Manager, Engineering - Sales Planning

Requirements mention: Sales Planning platform · Quota · Capacity · Territory management · revenue planning AI agent · AI-enabled functionality · very large datasets

Inference: the Sales Planning product is described as 'recently launched'. The Full Stack posting points to building out its Quota, Capacity and Territory modules and adding a revenue planning AI agent.

AI-native incentive compensation operations moderate signal

Today: Automate commission calculations with precision and transparency (site)

Roles: Sr. Engineering Manager - Incentive Compensation Ops.

Requirements mention: AI-native · agents · Incentive Compensation Operations · inquiries · statements · payouts

Inference: the posting describes building agents for the existing Incentive Compensation Operations surface to cut manual work and time-to-resolution on plan and payout questions.

Shared modeling platform and internal AI developer platform strong signal

Today: Ingest data from any source and transform it in real-time with the SmartGrid ELT modeling engine (site)

Roles: Staff Product Manager - Modeling Platform · Staff Software Engineer, Modeling Platform · Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform

Requirements mention: modeling platform · shared platform · modeling SDK · service-layer APIs · AI-native platform · Agentic SDK · platform design

Inference: three staff-level roles suggest the shared modeling layer is being reworked into a self-service framework, so new modeling products can ship on one foundation. The postings say this would happen 'at a fraction of today's build time'.

Enterprise implementation and professional services delivery strong signal

Today: Building customers' commission plans on the platform (site: 'Build any commission plan')

Roles: Solutions Architect, ICM · Senior Project Manager · Project Manager · Director of Project Management · Senior Professional Services Consultant · Principal Professional Services Consultant · Senior Technical Solutions Consultant

Requirements mention: enterprise SaaS implementations · customer implementations · de-risking large-scale, multi-phase, multi-stakeholder implementations · delivery end-to-end · complex SaaS delivery · PMP-certified

Inference: seven of the eight Customer Experience roles are in implementation, delivery or technical consulting, which suggests added capacity for enterprise implementations. The site says teams can work 'without relying on services or IT'; the Solutions Architect posting describes services for the 'most strategic and complex customers'. Renewals Manager, Velocity is excluded because it is not delivery work.

Shared platform capabilities: identity, permissions, audit and design coherence moderate signal

Today: One AI-infused platform from planning to payout (site heading)

Roles: Staff Product Manager - CIA · Senior Manager, Product Design - Product Platform

Requirements mention: authentication · authorization · permissions · auditability · compliance-related features · systems thinking · drive decisions across organizational boundaries

Inference: the postings describe making shared capabilities such as identity, permissions and audit 'secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready' and 'one coherent, trustworthy system' across products.

Enterprise sales and business development outbound weak signal

Today: Talk with an expert and see how CaptivateIQ could support your team's comp process (site)

Roles: Account Executive - Enterprise · Business Development Representative · Enterprise Business Development Representative

Requirements mention: net new enterprise acquisition · self sourced pipeline generation · complex, multi stakeholder deals · cold-call · qualify · objection-handle

No next step inferred. The signal rests on three roles: one remote, and two on site in Austin, Texas. The Enterprise BDR posting has been open since May 2023.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Customer Experience8
Engineering7
Product & Design3
G&A2
Marketing2
Sales1

Hiring is weighted toward implementation delivery and product and platform engineering (Customer Experience 8 and Engineering 7 of 23 roles), with little in sales, and new openings slowed to 4 in the last 30 days from 7 in the prior 30, while 3 closed.

Who they need

Seniority: Mostly senior-level among the 19 roles with a classified level: 5 senior, 4 staff, 4 manager, 1 director and 1 principal, against 2 junior and 2 unknown.

Skills named most: data modeling, calculations, configuration, integrations, product functionality, architecture, Project Management, enterprise implementations, communication, cold-call, prospect, qualify

Locations: 20 of 23 roles are remote. Locations as given: Remote (9), Remote USA (7), Poland (4) and Austin, Texas (3). The nine 'Remote' roles do not name a country. The three Austin, Texas roles are not remote.

How to use this

If you're applying: Check each fit line against the posting's stated requirements before applying. Nine remote roles say only 'Remote', seven say Remote USA and four are in Poland, so confirm country eligibility in the posting. The three Austin, Texas roles are on site.

If you're selling or recruiting: For recruiters: Customer Experience is the largest group (8 roles, seven in implementation, delivery and technical consulting), followed by Engineering (7 roles, all remote). For sales teams: the postings point to investment in Sales Planning modules, AI agents and shared modeling and platform capabilities. Go-to-market hiring is thin (one Account Executive and two BDRs), and new openings slowed to 4 in the last 30 days from 7 in the prior 30.

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Open roles (23)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Principal Professional Services ConsultantCustomer ExperienceRemote (remote)2026-10-15
Senior RecruiterG&AAustin, Texas2026-10-14
Senior Technical Solutions ConsultantCustomer ExperiencePoland (remote)2026-10-14
Senior Professional Services ConsultantCustomer ExperienceRemote USA (remote)2026-10-01
Senior Software Engineer - ICMEngineeringRemote (remote)2026-08-31
Renewals Manager, VelocityCustomer ExperiencePoland (remote)2026-08-28
Account Executive - EnterpriseSalesRemote (remote)2026-08-27
Sr. Engineering Manager - Incentive Compensation Ops.EngineeringRemote (remote)2026-08-25
Senior Manager, Product Design - Product PlatformProduct & DesignRemote USA (remote)2026-08-24
Director of Project ManagementCustomer ExperienceRemote USA (remote)2026-08-14
Solutions Architect, ICMCustomer ExperienceRemote USA (remote)2026-08-11
Senior Project ManagerCustomer ExperienceRemote USA (remote)2026-08-11
Project ManagerCustomer ExperienceRemote USA (remote)2026-08-10
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack - Sales PlanningEngineeringRemote (remote)2026-07-28
Strategic Finance Manager, GTMG&ARemote (remote)2026-06-18
Staff Product Manager - Modeling PlatformProduct & DesignRemote (remote)2026-06-17
Business Development RepresentativeMarketingAustin, Texas2026-05-08
Staff Software Engineer - AI PlatformEngineeringPoland (remote)2026-03-30
Staff Software Engineer, Modeling PlatformEngineeringRemote (remote)2026-03-05
Staff Product Manager - CIAProduct & DesignRemote (remote)2026-02-13
Fullstack Software Engineer - PolandEngineeringPoland (remote)2025-10-24
Manager, Engineering - Sales PlanningEngineeringRemote USA (remote)2025-09-05
Enterprise Business Development RepresentativeMarketingAustin, Texas2023-05-04