Compensation Manager

Guild • Denver, CO

12d • $118,300 - $180,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

Guild is hiring a Compensation Manager to play an integral part on the Total Rewards team. This role will help build and scale Guild’s compensation function to align with our employee value proposition, keep Guild in compliance, and partner with internal stakeholders on strategic compensation matters. Our compensation programs are core to the Total Rewards team’s mission of ensuring employees feel valued and rewarded for their contributions, and this role offers the chance to do that work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of compensation principles, including salary structures, equity compensation, and incentive program design.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex compensation data and translate it into actionable recommendations.
• Solid understanding of compensation-related compliance, regulations, and reporting requirements.
• Experience building and implementing compensation and equity programs and policies, including incentive plan design.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across HR teams and management.

Nice To Haves

• CCP, CEP, or SHRM certification (SPHR or SHRM-SCP).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in HR, Finance, or Analytics.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets, with the ability to build complex data models for compensation analysis and market trend forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual compensation cycles, including planning tool setup, data analysis, reporting, troubleshooting, and communications.
• Perform complex analysis of salary ranges to ensure they remain competitive, recommending consolidation and updates as needed.
• Lead the design of equity-related compensation and stock option administration, including monthly equity grant analysis.
• Manage job evaluation, job family creation, and salary survey benchmarking, including participating in surveys and analyzing results and trends.
• Serve as a key collaborator on sales incentive plan design and administration.
• Partner with People Business Partners and the Talent team on compensation-related processes, approvals, questions, and company-wide education.
• Implement and maintain compensation technology, and partner with the People Operations team to keep systems and HRIS data accurate.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and represent the Compensation team on cross-functional People and company project teams.

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
• Stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level