Business Operations Lead, Compensation & Equity

What You'll Do

• Lead high-priority compensation and equity projects from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, stakeholder alignment, and execution.
• Build analytical models and decision frameworks for compensation bands, equity grants, refresh programs, promotion cycles, retention offers, international compensation, incentive structures, and executive-level scenarios.
• Partner with leaders across People, Talent, Finance, Legal, Sales, Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to translate complex compensation questions into clear, practical recommendations.
• Help run and improve major company-wide compensation processes, including merit cycles, promotion cycles, equity refreshers, offer governance, and special compensation reviews.
• Develop tools, templates, dashboards, and workflows that make compensation decisions faster, more accurate, and more consistent as Ramp grows.
• Use AI to remove manual work from the compensation function: pulling relevant context, flagging exceptions, drafting decision materials, and automating repeatable analysis.
• Pressure-test compensation and equity philosophy against market data, hiring needs, retention risk, budget constraints, and internal equity.

What You Need

• 4-8 years of experience in business operations, corporate strategy, consulting, finance, people strategy, total rewards, or another analytical operating role.
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including strong Excel / Google Sheets modeling.
• Experience building executive-facing analyses, operating models, decision memos, or board-level materials.
• Practical AI fluency.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• High emotional intelligence and discretion.
• Low ego, high ownership, strong business judgment, and real interest in compensation, equity, talent markets, and how people systems shape company performance.
• Ability to work onsite from Ramp's New York office three or more days per week.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a client service, strategy, finance, or operating environment where you owned complex workstreams and advised senior stakeholders.
• Experience in compensation, equity, total rewards, people analytics, workforce planning, sales compensation, or executive compensation.
• Experience at a high-growth technology company, fintech company, or late-stage private company.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, or lightweight automation tools.
• Exposure to talent strategy, performance management, org design, or financial planning.