Field Readiness Manager

Compass • Chicago, IL

9h • Onsite

About The Position

At Compass, the mission is to help everyone find their place in the world, revolutionizing the real estate industry with an end-to-end platform for residential real estate agents. The CIH Inventory & Leads Program captures and converts high-intent consumer traffic into real estate transactions through strategic partnerships, delivering a diversified lead pipeline. As a Field Readiness Manager, you are responsible for ensuring inventory and lead programs are effectively translated into field understanding by aligning strategy, execution, and adoption. This role works at the intersection of Strategy, GTM, and Brokerage Leadership, partnering with L&D, Communications, Operations, and regional leadership (RVPs, DOOs) to ensure programs are clearly positioned, operationally executable, and adopted in the field. The focus is on driving consistent, high-quality field execution, ensuring marketplace strategies translate into aligned actions, strong adoption, and measurable progress toward goals, while maintaining field readiness at launch and continuously improving programs through structured feedback and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Strategic operator who can translate vision into field execution
• Strong cross-functional leader, comfortable influencing without direct authority
• Experience in real estate field operations, GTM strategy, or large-scale program rollout
• Excellent communicator with ability to simplify complexity for diverse audiences
• Strong synthesis and pattern recognition skills
• High ownership mindset with a bias toward action and outcomes

Responsibilities

• Strategic Program Readiness: Partner with L&D, brokerage and GTM stakeholders to translate program strategy into field-ready execution plans. Align messaging, workflows, and expectations across PMO, Communications, Field Leadership (RVPs, DOOs, Sales Managers), Performance Advisors, CIH Leads. Ensure programs are operationally sound and field-ready prior to launch.
• Field Execution Ownership: Partner with Business Consultants, RVPs and DOOs as strategic counterparts. Ensure field leaders and supporting teams are equipped to drive consistent execution across offices. Monitor how programs are being implemented and drive alignment when inconsistencies emerge across regions.
• In-Market Signal & Insight: Establish structured mechanisms to gather feedback from the field. Identify patterns in adoption, confusion, and friction. Distinguish between messaging gaps, operational breakdowns, and product issues. Translate field signal into clear, prioritized insights for Strategy and Product teams.
• Cross-Functional Feedback Loops: Serve as the connective layer across Strategy, GTM (Comms, Ops), Product / PMO, Field Leadership. Ensure feedback results in action, primarily through Business Consultants, and close the loop by driving updates back into the field with clarity and consistency.
• Iteration & Continuous Improvement: Drive ongoing refinement of programs based on field performance and feedback. Partner with Business Consultants, GTM stakeholders to evolve messaging, materials, and workflows. Support re-deployment of program updates with clear expectations for the field. Ensure iteration cycles are fast and impactful.
• Field Performance & Adoption Insight: Evaluate how programs impact adoption and engagement, agent behavior, and conversion outcomes. Surface insights that connect execution quality to business performance. Provide leadership with a clear view of what’s working, what’s not, and why.

Benefits

• Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions)
• Paid vacation
• Holidays
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Recharge leave
• Medical benefits
• Tele-health benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Commuter program
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Maven (a support system for new parents)
• Carrot (fertility benefits)
• UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees