Compensation Lead

The role

The Compensation Lead will architect and run compensation programs, frameworks, and analytics. This role owns compensation strategy, job architecture, leveling, cycles, and equity programs to support company growth.

What you will do

• Scale the compensation philosophy and framework to support growth from 500 to 1,500+ employees.
• Design and implement a company-wide job catalog, job families, career tracks, and leveling criteria.
• Establish compensation bands backed by market benchmarks and internal equity principles.
• Run merit and compensation review processes end-to-end.
• Build promotion, off-cycle adjustment, and retention award processes.
• Build tools and guidance for recruiters to construct and close offers.
• Build compensation metrics and reporting for market competitiveness, band positioning, and pay equity.
• Own survey participation and benchmarking cadence.
• Build the framework for new-hire, promotion, and refresh equity grants.
• Develop market-informed points of view on executive compensation for leadership and board discussions.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in compensation, with direct ownership of compensation strategy, job architecture, and program design.
• Experience building compensation infrastructure through significant headcount growth, ideally in technology or other high-growth environments.
• Deep expertise in equity compensation, market benchmarking, and job leveling.
• Strong command of HR and compensation systems and data.
• Located in San Francisco and able to work in the office 4 days/week.

Benefits

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About the company

Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with an AI-enabled platform. The company supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries.