Senior Compensation Manager
Serve as dedicated compensation partner for Product and Technology org, supporting executives, VPs, and directors on offers, equity reviews, leveling, cycles, benchmarking, and competitive intelligence in AI landscape. Requires 10+ years compensation experience as business partner owning cyclical programs.
About the job
The Difference You Will Make
Serve as the dedicated compensation partner for the Product and Technology organization, supporting senior leaders, HR Directors, and People Partners across customer divisions. Act as the primary point of contact for new hire offers, internal equity reviews, leveling decisions, and out-of-cycle requests. Own compensation cycle execution for customer client groups end-to-end, including market benchmarking, budget modeling, manager enablement, and leadership rollups. Lead competitive intelligence for roles by conducting market research on compensation trends, pay practices, and talent movement, particularly important in the new AI competitive landscape. Develop benchmarking methodologies that supplement traditional survey data with recruiting signals, offer data, and other real-time market sources. Partner with Recruiting and People partners to provide market insights and competitive positioning recommendations for hires at all levels. Own or lead global projects to stretch learning such as shift allowance, job architecture, comp planning tool implementation. Develop enablement materials that help managers understand compensation philosophy and make informed decisions.
Your Expertise
- 10+ years of compensation expertise
- Proven track record as a compensation business partner supporting customer organizations, including end-to-end ownership of cyclical compensation programs
- Strong knowledge of third-party survey methodologies (for example, Radford and WTW), with the ability to build and validate pay structures across geographies and functions
- Experience leading cross-functional compensation initiatives and comfort navigating ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Strong communication skills, with a proven ability to present complex compensation data clearly to senior business and technical audiences
Preferred Experience/Skills
- Experience in both compensation business partner and program roles
- Experience at a high-growth technology company
- Excellent communicator across all channels, in person, virtually, and in writing, with the ability to build strong working relationships across distributed teams
- Able to operate at multiple altitudes, prioritize effectively, and manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong project management skills and excellent follow-through
- Process-oriented and comfortable creating structure in ambiguous environments, with a creative approach to solving non-obvious problems
- Comfortable moving between operational and tactical details and higher-level vision and strategy conversations
- Experience working remotely and/or internationally, coordinating effectively with global peers and team members, and understanding both the challenges and opportunities of remote work
- Ability to succeed in a collaborative, startup-paced environment
- Advanced skills in MS Office and G-Suite
- Strong business acumen and awareness of business and market trends
Skills
Compensation Strategy, Market Benchmarking, Pay Structures, Radford, Wtw, Competitive Intelligence, Job Architecture, Compensation Planning, Ms Office, G-Suite
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