Senior Compensation Analyst

The role

You will serve as a project manager for moderately complex compensation projects and deliver client work with limited oversight. You will provide advanced compensation expertise including benchmarking, market pricing, and salary structure design. You will also mentor junior team members and support the revenue team during prospect and renewal calls.

What you will do

• Serve as project manager on moderately complex compensation projects
• Manage all project types within service offerings from strategy to communications training
• Deliver sophisticated benchmarking and market pricing analysis
• Develop and recommend salary structures
• Participate in tough client conversations alongside senior team members
• Provide compensation expertise on prospect and renewal calls
• Mentor and develop Compensation Analyst I and II team members
• Participate in onboarding new team members
• Manage and update internal documentation
• Participate in departmental strategic initiatives

Required qualifications

• 5-6 years of hands-on compensation experience
• Expertise across multiple compensation discipline areas
• Knowledge of benchmarking and market pricing across industries and geographies
• Knowledge of salary structure design, development, and analysis
• Knowledge of job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling
• Knowledge of compensation strategy development and implementation
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Advanced Excel proficiency
• Strong data analysis capabilities
• Track record of mentoring and supporting other professionals
• Basic proficiency or ability to quickly learn compensation software platforms

Nice to have

• Client-facing experience delivering complex consulting services to external clients
• Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures
• Knowledge of variable pay structure design
• Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives
• Familiarity with Payscale's benchmarking and services platform
• Certification in compensation, such as CCP
• Background in consulting or professional services delivery

Benefits

• Monthly company All Hands meetings
• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure
• Access to continued learning & development opportunities
• Continuous feedback culture
• Employee Resource Groups
• Company sponsored volunteer hours
• Flexible paid time off
• 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays
• Medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
• Unlimited infertility coverage benefits
• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Before you apply

• Unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii

About the company

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions. The company combines market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights.