If a Rep Can't Explain Their Comp Plan in Two Minutes, Something's Broken

Stacey Mangold is VP of RevOps at Axway, a publicly listed software company with over 11,000 customers worldwide. She's built comp plans from scratch at five companies and followed two leaders across multiple roles because she values learning from great operators over chasing titles. In this episode, she shares the company where comp plans didn't go out until Q2, her rule that reps should be able to explain their plan in two minutes, why she never changes a plan structure mid-cycle, and how Axway starts comp planning with strategy in Q3 before touching a single revenue number. Plus: the SDR comp plan that looked perfect on paper until nobody qualified the meetings.