Compensation Lead

The role

This individual contributor role involves owning the analysis, programs, and systems behind how Headway pays people. You will manage market pricing, pay positioning, offers, annual compensation cycles, and equity.

What you will do

• Lead analysis behind annual compensation cycles including role pricing and budget modeling.
• Build recommendations for new hire offers, promotions, and equity actions.
• Build models, frameworks, and tools to keep compensation decisions consistent.
• Run and improve company-wide compensation processes.
• Simplify and scale team workflows, documentation, and reporting.
• Use AI and automation to pull context, flag exceptions, and automate analysis.
• Serve as a compensation partner to HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and managers.
• Partner across Workday, Pave, Carta, and other tools to improve data quality.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in compensation or total rewards, consulting, finance, or a similar analytical role.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to build, test, automate, and improve workflows.
• Clear, confident communicator.
• High bar for accuracy and quality with sensitive compensation, equity, and performance data.
• Self-directed problem solver with a builder mindset.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• HSA/FSA
• 401(k) including match for 2027!
• Carrot Fertility reimbursement
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Paid caregiver leave

Before you apply

• Headway participates in E-Verify.

About the company

Headway is a Series D company building a new mental healthcare system. They provide software and automated administrative tools for providers.