Whatnot

Senior Compensation Business Partner, GTM, G&A

Whatnot

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Act as the primary compensation advisor to Business leaders, translating business strategy into compensation frameworks and organizational design recommendations.
  • Develop innovative, business-aligned compensation programs that strengthen retention and support long-term.
  • Develop compensation strategies for diverse roles — from analytical and operational to legal, finance, and emerging leadership categories.
  • Drive adoption of consistent leveling, job families, and pay structures across highly varied business functions.
  • Lead semi-annual compensation cycles for G&A + Sales, ensuring alignment with Finance, strong governance, clean data, and cohesive cross-functional communication.
  • Strengthen systematic compensation governance — documenting standards, introducing decision frameworks, and ensuring consistency in offers, promotions, and pay decisions.
  • Evaluate pay equity, pay compression, flight risk indicators, role criticality, and ROI of compensation investments.
  • Build models to forecast cost impacts, scenario plan organization changes, and ensure financial discipline across business functions.
  • Own compensation system workflows for G&A + Sales teams, ensuring data accuracy, clarity of ranges, and intuitive reporting.
  • Create and deliver training to improve manager and leader compensation literacy, particularly for non-People, non-technical teams.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of compensation or Total Rewards experience, ideally partnering with commercial or G&A functions
  • Strong expertise in variable incentive design, job architecture, benchmarking, and compensation philosophy.
  • Analytical and financial mindset — you're seamlessly able to translate data into actionable business insights.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise senior leaders across different disciplines.
  • Strong operation instincts and can simultaneously drive strategy, systems, and high-quality execution.
Benefits
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
  • Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
compensation strategyvariable incentive designjob architecturebenchmarkingpay equity analysispay compression evaluationfinancial modelingdata analysisscenario planningcompensation governance
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationstrategic thinkinganalytical mindsetleadershiporganizational designcross-functional collaborationtraining deliveryproblem-solvingexecution