Whatnot

Compensation Business Partner

Whatnot

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Act as a strategic partner to RevOps, Finance, and People Business Partners in building and executing compensation frameworks that align with business goals.\n
  • Perform market benchmarking using tools like Radford, Pave, and surveys to recommend job levels, pay ranges, and compensation philosophy.\n
  • Ensure compensation plans are equitable, compliant, and fiscally sound through governance processes, transparent documentation, and risk mitigation.\n
  • Lead execution of semi-annual compensation cycles, partnering with leaders to ensure alignment and accuracy across all teams.\n
  • Own and manage our compensation systems and tools, including our primary platform Complete, to ensure data integrity, accurate reporting, and effective decision-making.\n
  • Partner with People Analytics to analyze and monitor pay outcomes, ensuring transparent, efficient compensation processes and equitable pay across the company.\n
  • Train and enable leaders, managers, and cross-functional partners on compensation design, mechanics, systems, and literacy.\n
  • Analyze compensation program performance, including attainment, payout trends, comp ratios, and forecasted cost vs. performance, and recommend data-driven improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on compensation experience at a fast-paced or high growth company\n
  • Strong expertise in incentive design, job analysis, benchmarking, and compensation philosophies.\n
  • Deep understanding of sales and variable compensation structures.\n
  • Proficiency with compensation tools (e.g., Radford, Pave) and strong analytical acumen (advanced Excel/Sheets modeling).\n
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills—particularly in translating complex comp topics to non-People leaders.\n
  • Proven track record owning compensation planning cycles and bringing operational discipline and process improvements.\n
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.