Senior Compensation Analyst

Payscale•,

23h•$93,000 - $139,800•Remote

About The Position

Payscale's Compensation Services team partners with clients throughout their compensation journey. The team helps organizations build compensation strategies, design competitive pay structures, establish job families and level frameworks, and improve pay transparency and communications. It combines compensation expertise with data-driven insights from Payscale's platform to help clients build strategic, defensible compensation programs. The Senior Compensation Analyst manages moderately complex client engagements with limited oversight and independently delivers projects across the team's service offerings. Work may span stakeholder alignment, compensation strategy, structure modeling, job family frameworks, policy documentation, and communications training. The role also provides advanced benchmarking and market-pricing analysis, contributes to complex client conversations, supports revenue teams, mentors junior analysts, and improves internal processes and documentation. Payscale uses an employee-centric remote-first work model. Employees may work from home, company-paid coworking spaces, or a combination, and gather in person for occasional events. The role requires working from an eligible location; Payscale currently cannot hire in Quebec, Northern Ireland, or Hawaii.

Requirements

5–6 years of hands-on compensation experience, with demonstrated expertise across multiple compensation disciplines.
Deep working knowledge of benchmarking and market pricing across varied industries, geographies, and data sources.
Deep working knowledge of salary structure design, development, and analysis.
Deep working knowledge of job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling.
Deep working knowledge of compensation strategy development and implementation.
Strong project management skills and the ability to independently manage moderately complex client engagements, potentially involving cross-functional teams.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain sophisticated compensation concepts clearly to client stakeholders at different levels.
Advanced Excel proficiency and strong data-analysis capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and support other professionals in their development.
Basic proficiency with compensation software platforms or the ability to learn them quickly.

Nice To Haves

Client-facing experience delivering complex consulting services to external clients.
Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures.
Knowledge of variable-pay structure design, including incentive compensation and bonus structures.
Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives.
Familiarity with Payscale's benchmarking and services platform.
A compensation certification, such as CCP.
A background in consulting or professional services delivery.

Responsibilities

Manage moderately complex compensation engagements as project manager, delivering client work with limited oversight and coordinating solutions across functional areas when needed.
Independently deliver compensation projects, including stakeholder alignment, strategy development, compensation structure modeling, job family frameworks, policy documentation, and communications training.
Conduct advanced benchmarking and market-pricing analyses across industries and geographies, and develop and recommend salary structures.
Apply expertise in job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling.
Participate in challenging client conversations with senior team members and help develop and implement solutions to complex compensation issues.
Provide compensation expertise on prospect and renewal calls to help the revenue team position services and address client questions.
Mentor Compensation Analyst I and II team members, participate in onboarding, provide guidance and job shadowing, and review junior staff work for quality.
Manage and update internal documentation and identify process-improvement and team-development opportunities.
Contribute industry and client insights to team discussions and participate in departmental strategic initiatives as delegated by management.

Benefits

Flexible paid time off.
14 paid company holidays, including two floating holidays.
Medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance, covered up to 100% by Payscale.
Unlimited infertility coverage through medical plans.
Supplemental health benefits for employees and their families.
401(k) retirement program with an immediately vested company match.
16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
Health Savings Account options with company contributions each pay period.
Flexible Spending Account options for pre-tax employee allocations.
Annual remote-work stipend for wellness or home-office equipment.
Continued learning and development opportunities.
Company-sponsored volunteer hours.
Employee Resource Groups.
Monthly company All Hands meetings and opportunities for executive leadership exposure.