Senior Compensation Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Oversee compensation programs from their design and preparation stages through to approvals, processing, communication, and post-cycle evaluations.

• Manage the annual focal merit cycle while supervising promotion, quarterly equity, and semi-annual bonus cycles.

• Establish program timelines, decision-making points, roles and responsibilities, controls, and success metrics.

• Coordinate necessary dependencies and keep stakeholders updated on progress, risks, and decisions made.

• Ensure compliance with eligibility criteria and create process documentation, resources for managers, and communication materials.

• Provide guidance to People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and leadership regarding program application and exceptions.

• Escalate policy and governance issues as necessary.

• Analyze compensation data and program results, providing recommendations to Total Rewards leadership.

• Collaborate with Finance on budgeting, cost modeling, and reconciliation efforts.

• Work alongside People Technology and IT systems stakeholders to enhance workflows, reporting, and usability.

• Validate inputs and outputs, ensure timely processing, maintain audit and control documentation, and safeguard confidential compensation information.

• Supervise the annual update of global compensation and equity ranges.

• Assist compensation partners in program implementation and analysis.

• Drive initiatives that mitigate program risks and friction, enhance consistency and transparency, and elevate the team member experience.

• Utilize clear documentation and asynchronous communication to facilitate collaboration across different time zones.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and managing compensation programs, with a focus on corporate compensation and public company equity.

• Track record of successfully delivering complex merit, equity, bonus, or promotion cycles accurately from planning to completion.

• Strong analytical and spreadsheet capabilities, including the ability to interpret compensation data, create scenarios, validate assumptions, and communicate findings to decision-makers.

• Knowledge of compensation governance, data integrity, and controls.

• Discretion and sound judgment in managing confidential information and sensitive decisions.

• Ability to convert policy and strategy into operational procedures, system requirements, and guidance for stakeholders.

• Familiarity with human resources information systems and compensation planning tools like Pave and Workday.

• Comfortable working on a Mac.

• Attention to detail, practical problem-solving abilities, and determination to navigate complex issues and deliver precise outcomes.

• Quick adaptability to learn new programs, systems, and business contexts.

• Capacity to build trusted partnerships, advise leaders and People teams, resolve ambiguities, and advance decisions without formal authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to coordinate with global partners across time zones using asynchronous methods.

• Helpful, though not mandatory: experience supporting a global, distributed workforce, including partners in India or other international locations; handling compensation-cycle communications; and experience in a software or technology company.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, financial stability, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off policy.

• Participation in Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave benefits.