# Senior Compensation Partner

**Company:** [Gusto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gusto)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $181k – $224k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Compensation Analysis, Total Rewards, Compensation Cycles, Benchmarking, Radford, Mercer, Carta, AI Automation, Excel, Google Sheets, Data Modeling, Dashboards, Flsa, Pay Equity, HRIS
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Leads the design, operation, and scaling of compensation programs, including annual cycles, market benchmarking, pay equity, compliance, and executive advising. Requires 8+ years of compensation or related analytical experience, strong systems and data skills, and experience with automation and compensation survey methodologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and communicate compensation programs, policies, and procedures aligned with business strategy, internal equity, and market competitiveness.
- Partner with HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, senior leadership, and business leaders to translate compensation philosophy into actionable programs.
- Lead annual merit, equity refresh, and benchmarking cycles from data collection through communication.
- Conduct market analyses and compensation studies using survey data such as Radford/Aon, Mercer, and Pave to recommend pay ranges, job levels, and offer positioning.
- Use AI tools and automation to accelerate analysis, synthesize benchmarking data, improve decision quality, and reduce manual work while maintaining data-quality controls.
- Design scalable compensation workflows, tooling, audit processes, recurring analyses, and reporting.
- Build dashboards and visualizations covering pay equity, market positioning, and budget utilization.
- Create competitive offers and playbooks that help recruiters and HRBPs communicate total rewards.
- Monitor compliance with federal, state, and local pay regulations, including pay transparency, FLSA classification, and pay equity requirements.
- Partner with People Operations to integrate and optimize HRIS and compensation tools and maintain data accuracy.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, People Operations, or a related analytical function, ideally in a high-growth technology environment.
- Hands-on experience running compensation cycles and building scalable programs.
- Experience with compensation survey tools and methodologies, such as Radford/Aon, Mercer, Carta, or comparable platforms.
- Experience building durable workflows, automating reports, and reducing recurring manual work.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, data modeling experience, and experience building dashboards or visualizations.
- Knowledge of compensation and employment law, including FLSA, pay transparency statutes, and pay equity frameworks.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex compensation data into recommendations for non-specialist and executive audiences.
- Ability to perform hands-on analysis while advising leadership on compensation philosophy and strategy.
- High integrity, intellectual curiosity, and sound judgment around fairness, data quality, and validation.

## Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience using AI tools or automation for analysis and synthesis.
- Background in Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

## Compensation
- San Francisco/New York cash compensation: $181,000–$223,573 per year.
- Denver cash compensation: $154,045–$189,989 per year.
- Full-time employees receive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).

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