Compensation Specialist
About The Position
The Compensation Specialist serves as a key analytical and consultative partner to the Compensation team, supporting the administration and delivery of compensation programs across the organization. This role contributes to ensuring compensation practices are market competitive, internally equitable, and aligned with organizational guidelines. The Compensation Specialist partners closely with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to support offer development, market pricing, and internal equity reviews. This position is responsible for conducting foundational to moderately complex analyses and translating data into clear, actionable recommendations. The role also supports annual compensation processes through data validation, auditing, and reporting, helping to ensure accurate and consistent program execution. The Specialist contributes to continuous improvement of compensation processes, tools, and documentation.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in compensation analysis, including market pricing, pay range administration, and internal equity reviews
- Experience supporting Talent Acquisition with offer analysis and compensation recommendations
- Experience interpreting and applying compensation guidelines to employee and manager inquiries
- Experience preparing data-driven insights and recommendations for HR and business partners
- Strong Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and data analysis
- Experience working with HRIS and compensation planning tools (Workday & MarketPay preferred)
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or progress toward certification
Responsibilities
- Support the administration and delivery of compensation programs.
- Ensure compensation practices are market competitive, internally equitable, and aligned with organizational guidelines.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to support offer development, market pricing, and internal equity reviews.
- Conduct foundational to moderately complex analyses and translate data into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Support annual compensation processes through data validation, auditing, and reporting.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of compensation processes, tools, and documentation.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
- Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
- Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
- Emergency Backup Care
- Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
- Life Insurance
- 401k/403B with Employer Match
- Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
- Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
- Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
- Annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
