# Engineering Manager, Compensation Planning

**Company:** [Pave](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pave)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $196k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Technical Leadership, Roadmapping, System Design, Mentorship, B2B SaaS, Financial Systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Lead and grow an engineering team building core compensation planning and recommendation workflows for large enterprises. Requires 7+ years experience including 2+ years managing high-performing teams, staying close to the code, and driving technical roadmaps for accuracy-critical financial systems.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Lead and grow an engineering team building the core planning and recommendation workflows used by compensation teams at companies like OpenAI, Databricks, and Atlassian
- Manage the team while staying close to the code: comfortable reviewing designs and diving into implementation details when needed
- Drive the technical roadmap to help drive the product towards supporting companies with 150,000+ employees
- Partner with Product and Design to translate complex compensation planning requirements into technical requirements
- Ensure the accuracy and reliability of planning calculations, given the direct financial impact on customers' pay decisions
- Align with other product and platform teams to reuse components, patterns, and shared data models
- Communicate complex technical and compensation concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Coach and mentor your team through regular, constructive feedback

## What You'll Bring
- 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience on high-performing teams
- Confidence diving into technical details and challenging designs or solutions
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams through planning and execution of large technical projects spanning multiple quarters
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to provide clear direction, set expectations, and give actionable feedback
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and tackle problems with high agency
- Nice to have: experience with b2b saas and/or financial systems where correctness and auditability of calculations are critical

## Compensation
Targeted cash compensation for this role: $195,500 - $264,500

Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; flexible PTO; lunch and dinner stipends; quarterly education stipend; robust parental leave; commuter stipend.

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