Compensation Manager

The role

You will own the compensation strategy and build a scalable framework covering hourly, salaried, GTM, and executive roles. You will manage job architecture, market benchmarking, and annual compensation cycles.

What you will do

• Own Hadrian's compensation strategy and philosophy.
• Build and maintain job architecture and career frameworks.
• Conduct market benchmarking and modeling.
• Set the cadence for refreshing compensation bands.
• Own annual and off-cycle compensation planning.
• Partner with Recruiting on offer decisioning.
• Advise on sales and GTM compensation design.
• Build models, dashboards, and reporting for pay equity and retention.
• Explain compensation reasoning to executives and hiring managers.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of compensation experience with real ownership of program design and comp cycles.
• Command of compensation fundamentals including job matching, market pricing, leveling and job architecture.
• Experience building comp programs for both hourly and salaried populations.
• Experience with pay practices like shift differentials, overtime, and multi-state pay compliance.
• Track record of building benchmarking approaches and peer groups.
• Deep Excel or Google Sheets fluency.
• Fluency in sales compensation including OTE design and bonus structuring.
• Experience designing and managing equity programs.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Nice to have

• Compensation experience across both manufacturing and tech companies.
• Experience building skills-based pay structures, career frameworks, or job architecture from the ground up.
• A creative, outside-the-box approach to comp strategy.
• Experience with executive compensation in a pre-IPO or rapid-scaling environment.
• Background in aerospace, defense, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with HRIS and comp planning tools like Rippling, Pave, or similar.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Before you apply

• To conform to ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing.