Director of Doctor Compensation

SALT Dental Partners

4h

About The Position

SALT Dental Partners is a growth-oriented, private equity-backed dental services organization supporting leading orthodontic and pediatric dental practices. SALT partners with doctors to provide best-in-class operational, financial, and strategic support, enabling providers to focus on delivering exceptional patient care while scaling sustainably. We are seeking a strategic and operationally-minded leader to oversee and evolve our provider compensation function. This role will be responsible for building scalable compensation frameworks, establishing governance and guardrails, and partnering closely with finance, operations, and clinical leadership to ensure alignment between provider incentives and enterprise performance. As a highly acquisitive organization, SALT regularly integrates new practices, each with unique and often highly customized provider compensation structures. This role will play a critical part in evaluating and managing a diverse portfolio of inherited compensation plans, requiring strong critical thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to balance flexibility with standardization. The ideal candidate will be comfortable navigating complexity—assessing legacy arrangements, identifying risks and opportunities, and proposing thoughtful solutions that drive greater consistency, scalability, and alignment across the organization while maintaining competitive, market-sensitive structures. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to modernize and professionalize a critical function.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of experience in compensation, finance, consulting, or a related field
• Strong background in designing and managing compensation or incentive programs (healthcare experience preferred but not required)
• Experience operating in high-growth or acquisitive environments, with exposure to integrating or rationalizing disparate compensation structures
• Demonstrated ability to build and improve processes in a complex, evolving environment
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; comfort working with large, complex datasets
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and navigate organizational change
• Bachelor’s degree required

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (MBA or similar) a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and refinement of provider compensation models across supported practices
• Ensure compensation structures align with company objectives, including growth, profitability, provider retention, and quality of care
• Evaluate existing compensation programs and recommend enhancements that balance competitiveness with financial discipline
• Partner with executive leadership to assess trade-offs between compensation design, productivity, and overall financial performance
• Evaluate provider compensation structures inherited through acquisitions, identifying key risks, inconsistencies, and optimization opportunities
• Partner with integration teams to onboard new practices and thoughtfully transition compensation plans where appropriate
• Develop frameworks to categorize, benchmark, and standardize compensation approaches across a diverse and growing provider base
• Recommend pragmatic solutions that balance legacy commitments, local market dynamics, and enterprise objectives
• Drive increased uniformity and scalability across compensation plans while maintaining necessary flexibility for practice-level nuances
• Establish clear processes, controls, and guardrails around compensation design, approvals, and ongoing modifications
• Standardize compensation frameworks where appropriate while enabling flexibility for market and specialty differences
• Develop and maintain documentation, policies, and audit mechanisms to ensure consistency and compliance
• Build scalable workflows to support onboarding of new providers and practices
• Build and enhance reporting to provide transparency into provider productivity, compensation, and return on investment
• Partner with FP&A to model compensation scenarios and assess financial and operational impact
• Identify trends, outliers, and opportunities for optimization across the provider base
• Support due diligence and integration efforts through compensation-related analysis
• Collaborate with Operations, Clinical Leadership, HR, and Finance to ensure alignment and effective execution
• Serve as a key advisor on compensation-related decisions, including new hires, renewals, and restructures
• Translate complex compensation structures into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders
• Partner closely with existing team members, leveraging deep institutional knowledge while introducing structure, discipline, and enhancements
• Lead change management efforts thoughtfully, balancing respect for legacy practices with the need for modernization
• Build credibility and trust across a diverse stakeholder group, including providers, operators, and corporate leadership

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k with Company Match, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Training and Development opportunities
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, and paid time off

What This Job Offers

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