Senior Compensation Analyst
Payscale
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $89,300 - $133,900 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Partner with HRBPs, Talent, and business leaders to align pay structures and job ranges across roles.
- Ensure data accuracy and leverage benchmarking to recommend thoughtful, equitable pay adjustments.
- Lead execution of annual compensation programs. Merit, promotions, bonuses, and market reviews.
- Analyze and present metrics and insights that influence compensation strategy and decision-making.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders on compensation policies, practices, and market competitiveness.
- Provide data-driven insights on pay trends, workforce planning, and budgeting.
- Influence and advise leaders on complex compensation matters critical to business success as we scale.
- Partner cross-functionally to evolve and scale Payscale’s total compensation strategy.
- Act as both a customer and ambassador of Payscale’s analytics tools to enhance internal decision-making.
- Ensure Payscale maintains competitive, fair, and legally compliant compensation structures.
- Collaborate across Compensation, Benefits, and People Ops to deliver a cohesive, data-driven Total Rewards strategy.
- Provide day-to-day operational support, including occasional coverage of benefits responsibilities as needed.
- Support policy development, process optimization, and compliance initiatives.
- Partner on employee education and communication efforts to drive understanding and engagement in Total Rewards programs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive compensation experience, ideally within high-growth technology companies.
- BA/BS in HR, Business, or related field—or equivalent experience.
- Proven expertise in administering compensation programs, pay structures, and compliance.
- Strong proficiency in Payscale’s compensation software.
- Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivots, formulas).
- Experience designing and executing compensation philosophies responsive to evolving workforce dynamics (remote work, scaling, expansion).
- Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and guide strategy at both the individual and organizational level.
Benefits
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
influencingadvisingcollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingleadershipcustomer serviceengagementeducation