Director, Total Rewards & Analytics

Astranis • San Francisco, CA

17d • $200,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA. Director, Total Rewards & Analytics As Astranis’s Director of Total Rewards & Analytics, you will lead a business-critical function that shapes how we pay, support, and empower a fast-growing team. You’ll work side-by-side with our SVP of People to create the analytics muscle that helps us make smarter, faster people decisions. This role blends strategy, hands-on execution, and company-shaping impact.

Requirements

• 10+ years in compensation, benefits, or total rewards; strong analytics background.
• Expertise in comp design, equity structures, market data, and benefits regulations.
• Advanced Excel/Sheets; familiarity with reporting dashboards, ability to story tell with data.
• Strong business judgment and ability to translate data into action.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve our compensation philosophy, frameworks, and leveling.
• Oversee base pay, equity and benefits offerings, leveraging our tools (Radford, Pave, Salary.com ) to benchmark these offerings against our peers.
• Manage benefits strategy, vendor relationships, renewals, and plan optimization.
• Partner with the SVP of People to build the people analytics function - leveraging pre-built dashboards to pull insights and reporting for leaders across the company.
• Partner with Finance on headcount planning, workforce modeling, and budgeting.
• Ensure compliance across jurisdictions; lead audits and policy updates.
• Advise execs and managers on reward decisions, tradeoffs, and market trends.
• Improve systems and data integrity across HRIS, equity platforms, and analytics tools.
• Lead a small team; develop processes that scale with company growth.

Benefits

• All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.
• Base pay is a single component of Astranis's total rewards package, which may also include equity in the form of incentive stock options, high quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance benefits, flexible PTO, 401(K) retirement, and free on-site catered meals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees