# Compensation Partner

**Company:** [Fireworks AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fireworks-ai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $180k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Compensation Strategy, Salary Bands, Job Architecture, Market Benchmarking, Compensation Modeling, Pay Equity, Workday, Radford, Pave, Carta Total Comp, Equity Compensation, Rsus, Benefits Strategy, HRIS
**Posted:** 2026-09-05

> Own compensation strategy, job architecture, market benchmarking, review cycles, data systems, benefits strategy, and equity framework development as the company’s first dedicated Compensation Partner. Requires 6+ years of compensation experience, strong analytics, equity expertise, and cross-functional partnership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Translate compensation philosophy into practical strategy, guardrails, salary bands, and decision frameworks.
- Maintain job architecture and salary bands; conduct market research and benchmarking and recommend proactive adjustments.
- Own compensation data, analysis, and systems, including compensation modules such as Workday; provide pay equity, competitiveness, and spend analysis.
- Design and run the end-to-end compensation review cycle, including timing, guardrails, manager tools, calibration, rollout, and guidance.
- Own the strategic direction of benefits across geographies in partnership with People Operations.
- Partner with Finance on equity compensation framework design, modeling, guidelines, and decision-making.
- Advise HRBPs and leaders on pay decisions, offer approvals, and job evaluations; educate managers on compensation practices.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of progressive compensation experience, ideally maintaining and evolving compensation programs in a fast-growing company.
- Direct experience with equity compensation, including options, RSUs, or similar instruments.
- Strong analytical skills in market data, compensation modeling, and turning analysis into recommendations.
- Hands-on ownership of compensation processes and details.
- Experience partnering with HRBPs, Finance, and People Operations.
- Excellent written communication for executive and manager audiences.
- Familiarity with compensation systems and survey data sources such as Workday, Radford, Pave, and Carta Total Comp.

## Nice to Have
- Experience designing sales or go-to-market compensation plans.
- Experience managing benefits strategy through international or multi-geography expansion.
- Experience owning or substantially contributing to benefits strategy.
- Experience building a compensation review cycle alongside a performance management program.

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