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Sr. Compensation Manager

Strategic compensation lead partnering with R&D founders and leadership to design compensation models for attracting and retaining technical talent. Handles job architecture, market pricing, equity strategies, and high-stakes decisions with strong analytical skills.

218k – 300kMountain View, CASan Francisco, CAPeople OpsHybrid

About the role

Scope of the role

This is a hands-on, high-impact role that will effectively cover below areas and the anticipated time spent on each:

  • Compensation solutioning for R&D Talent (40%)
  • Managing Compensation processes through the employee life cycle (30%)
  • Contributing to building and delivering enterprise-wide compensation programs/ frameworks (30%)

Requirements

Comp expertise

  • Know your craft - Job architecture, Comp frameworks, Market pricing, Year-end and Midyear pay cycle, global compensation practices, pay for performance design
  • Know your data - Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear outputs and recommendations. Analyze competitive trends in cash, equity, and total rewards to inform decision-making and tradeoffs. Advanced capabilities required in gSheets, excel. We’ll love it if you know tableau, SQL, python or have used AI for comp analytics though not a requirement
  • Know the competition - Deep expertise in tech compensation practices, especially around new-hire and refresh equity strategies in the tech sector
  • Be rational - Ability to balance comp knowledge with business solutioning from a first principles viewpoint.

Operational and partnership excellence

  • Build innovatively & scale effectively - create innovative frameworks/solutions to not just solve today’s issues but also thinking ahead and anticipating future needs
  • Operational capability - Ability to connect the dots between systems, players, programs to seamlessly deliver compensation programs/ products
  • Savvy collaborator - Partner closely with founders and executive leadership to pre-empt, understand and solve business needs. Navigate at times competing priorities and opinions to drive the best outcomes
  • Trusted advisor - Act as a trusted advisor on compensation decisions, including offers, promotions, leveling, retention and M&A scenarios. Support sensitive, high-stakes compensation decisions with sound judgment and data-backed recommendations.

Skills

ExcelGoogle SheetsSQLPythonTableauJob ArchitectureMarket PricingEquity StrategiesCompensation FrameworksPay For Performance

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