Compensation Systems Manager
About The Position
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. We're seeking an experienced Compensation Systems Manager to lead the implementation and optimization of our compensation technology infrastructure. You'll be responsible for evaluating, implementing, and integrating compensation systems, building scalable processes from the ground up, and driving strategic enhancements that support our rapid growth. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for someone who thrives on building and transforming compensation technology ecosystems.
Requirements
- Have 6-8 years of experience in compensation, with at least 3 years leading compensation systems implementations and analytics
- Proven track record of implementing compensation planning platforms from scratch (e.g., Workday Compensation, Pave, or equivalent)
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data modeling
- Excellent project management skills with experience leading cross-functional projects
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
- Experience with change management and driving user adoption of new systems
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
Nice To Haves
- Experience with equity management systems (e.g., Carta, Shareworks)
Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle implementations of compensation management systems, from vendor selection and requirements gathering through deployment, integration, and adoption across HRIS, compensation planning, and equity management platforms
- Design and architect scalable compensation system infrastructure, including data models, workflows, approval chains, and integrations that support organizational growth from startup to scale
- Own the technical execution of annual compensation cycles and off-cycle changes, ensuring accurate data flows, building planning templates and dashboards, and partnering with Finance to validate budgets
- Own compensation metrics strategy in partnership with people analytics, defining key performance indicators, building executive dashboards, and delivering insights that inform compensation philosophy and budget planning
- Develop and maintain compensation heatmaps that enable data-driven decision-making on market competitiveness and compensation trends
- Transform manual compensation processes into automated, system-driven solutions through continuous optimization, change management, and adoption of new technologies
- Create enablement and governance frameworks that enable self-service and ensure consistent system usage across the organization
Benefits
- competitive compensation and benefits
- optional equity donation matching
- generous vacation and parental leave
- flexible working hours
- a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
