Senior Compensation Analyst

About Payscale

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies.

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Job Summary

What We Do:

Payscale's Compensation Services team partners strategically with clients across their entire compensation journey. We help organizations build foundational compensation strategies, design competitive pay structures, establish job families and level frameworks, and enhance pay transparency and communications—serving as trusted advisors who guide clients through complex compensation decisions across diverse industries, geographies, and organizational complexities. Our role is to combine deep compensation expertise with data-driven insights from Payscale's platform to deliver tangible, measurable outcomes that help clients build defensible, strategic compensation programs.

What You'll Do:

• Own Moderately Complex Client Engagements: Serve as project manager on moderately complex compensation projects, often requiring solutions from multiple functional areas; deliver client work with limited oversight

• Execute Comprehensive Compensation Solutions: Independently manage all project types within our service offerings, from stakeholder alignment and strategy development through structure modeling, job family frameworks, policy documentation, and communications training—tailoring approaches to unique client circumstances

• Provide Advanced Compensation Expertise: Deliver sophisticated benchmarking and market pricing analysis across multiple industries and geographies; develop and recommend salary structures; demonstrate expertise in job architecture and family frameworks

• Lead Escalations and Complex Conversations: Participate actively in tough client conversations alongside more senior team members; assist in developing and implementing solutions for complex compensation issues

• Support Revenue Team: Provide compensation expertise on prospect and renewal calls, helping the revenue team position capabilities and address client compensation questions

• Mentor and Develop Team: Serve as a mentor to Compensation Analyst I and II team members; participate in onboarding new team members; provide guidance, job shadowing, and quality control review of junior staff work

• Drive Internal Improvement: Manage and update internal documentation; identify opportunities for process improvement and team skill development

• Contribute Strategic Perspective: Bring industry and client insights to team discussions; participate in departmental strategic initiatives as delegated by management

We'd love to talk with you if you have:

• 5-6 years of hands-on compensation experience, with demonstrated expertise across multiple compensation discipline areas

• Deep working knowledge of:

  • Benchmarking and market pricing across a variety of industries, geographies, and data sources

  • Salary structure design, development, and analysis

  • Job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling

  • Compensation strategy development and implementation

• Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to independently manage moderately complex client engagements, potentially involving cross-functional teams

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate sophisticated compensation concepts clearly to client stakeholders at various levels

• Advanced Excel proficiency and strong data analysis capabilities

• Demonstrated track record of mentoring and supporting other professionals in their development

• Basic proficiency or demonstrated ability to quickly learn compensation software platforms

Nice to Have:

• 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 (incentive compensation, bonus structures)

• Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives

• Familiarity with Payscale's benchmarking and services platform

• Certification in compensation, such as CCP

• Background in consulting or professional services delivery

Why Join Us:

You're a skilled problem-solver and compensation expert who brings sophisticated analysis and strategic thinking to client engagements. You're client-centric and outcomes-focused—you understand that compensation strategy is nuanced and context-dependent, and you genuinely enjoy working across different industries and organizational models.You have strong executive presence and communicate with clarity and confidence, whether discussing detailed analytical work or presenting strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders. You're a natural mentor who believes in the power of collaborative problem-solving and genuinely enjoys supporting team members in developing their compensation expertise. You're organized and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining high quality and staying attuned to the broader strategy.You thrive in complexity and see ambiguity as an opportunity to bring structured thinking and creative solutions to client challenges. Perhaps most importantly, you're energized by being a trusted strategic advisor in clients' compensation journeys and understand that the quality of your work directly impacts how organizations attract, retain, and fairly compensate their talent.

Location

Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter.

In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs.

If you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements:

• High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.

• Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather for in-person events.

Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.

Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Data informed decision making.

• Customer first. Always.

• Succeed together.

• Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.

• Lead the change. Shape the standard.

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

• Monthly company All Hands meetings

• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs

• Access to continued learning & development opportunities

• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth

• A growing network of Employee Resource Groups

• Company sponsored volunteer hours

• And more!

Our more standard benefits

• Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work

• 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)

• A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale

• Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans

• Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family

• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

• Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations

• Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

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